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Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: They are direct build projects in local authority areas all over the country, including in Deputy Cowen's constituency.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Cowen and his party destroyed the social housing provision in this country.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: This Government is working towards a sustainable construction sector, which would provide houses for all our people into the future. In response to Deputy Stanley, huge progress has been made in terms of the turnaround of voids in this country. He has already acknowledged that directly to the Minister, Deputy Kelly, and me in committee. Some 2,000 voids and boarded up houses have been...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: -----and another 1,000 will be turned around in the coming year. He is not taking account of the voluntary housing bodies, which will be announced very shortly.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: They will also contribute to the housing demand that is out there at the moment.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: He is not taking account of the acquisitions local authorities can make all over the country.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: This Government is taking housing as a top priority and cleaning up the mess Fianna Fáil made.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputies for raising the important issue. They miss the point. Yesterday's announcement is but one strand of the Government's response under the social housing strategy. The figures quoted are the direct builds by local authorities proposed by the same local authorities through the Department. They have received the green light but it is only the first phase of direct...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Health. The overarching policy of the Government is to support older people to live in dignity and independence in their homes and communities for as long as possible. This is clearly what older people want and only those in genuine need of residential care should go down that route. Short-term...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: While I certainly recognise the Deputy's concerns, I can assure him that all Ministers, including myself, certainly take more than a passing interest in health. I have come to the House to relay the information given directly to me by the Minister for Health, who is unavoidably absent. I am sure he would be happy to engage with the Deputy further. I wish to reiterate that there are genuine...

Topical Issue Debate: Airport Promotion (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am taking the matter.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Senator for raising this issue which I know he has raised previously. I am happy to provide clarification on some of the queries raised by him. My Department plays a role in regulating the harvesting of wild seaweed. It is necessary to ensure this valuable resource is managed appropriately both to ensure it remains sustainable and that the marine environment is protected....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Department will take account of any established legal right as part of the applications process. As required, we have taken advice from the Attorney General's office. Folios on all parcels of land within one mile of the part of the foreshore that is the subject of a licence application must be identified. A folio must be examined to ascertain whether it contains an entry showing a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Spatial Strategy (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The 2002 National Spatial Strategy(NSS) was Ireland’s first national strategic spatial planning framework and outlined policies and objectives to secure a better balance of social, economic and physical development and population growth between regions through the co-ordinated development of nine gateway cities and towns, and nine hub towns, together with complementary policies to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regional Development (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Under the Government’s Action Programme for Effective Local Government – Putting People First, the regional dimension to local government in relation to economic development has been considerably enhanced and reconfigured through the establishment of the new Northern and Western, Southern, and Eastern and Midland Regional Assemblies which will have a number of important new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Estates (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: As was acknowledged by my Department in Circular Letter PL 5/14 regarding the taking in charge of housing estates, which issued to planning authorities on 5 November 2014, there is an issue in relation to some stand-alone developer-provided water services infrastructure in certain estates, which in many cases may require upgrading and remediation and which must be addressed before the taking...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 528, 540 and 560 together. Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020includes a commitment to make the Regulations necessary for its introduction, in the second quarter of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and the associated Regulations fully meet the requirements of the Aarhus Convention. All applications for permission or approval for development under the planning code include a full public consultation process.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Shared Ownership Scheme, firstintroduced in 1991 and amended in January 2003, was designed to facilitate access to home ownership to those who were unable to buy a home outright with a conventional mortgage. The Scheme offered an option to purchase up to half of a property with a standard annuity mortgage, with the balance to be rented from the local authority. The initiative worked well...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (30 Apr 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Irish Water recently submitted supplementary information in respect of this application, following a request by my Department under section 13A(1) of the Foreshore Act 1933. The supplementary information received from Irish Water has been issued for public consultation, and the latest date for submissions is today, 30 April 2015. Following completion of the consultation phase, the Marine...