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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (17 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 668. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons participating in the community employment schemes, Tús and rural social scheme, in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1825/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 958. To ask the Minister for Health when construction on the new national forensic mental health facility at Portrane, County Dublin, will commence; the timeline for completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41381/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Costs (17 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1673. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will intervene with insurance companies that are raising premiums for providers of child care services (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41076/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I understood speakers from individual groups would contribute in the first round before a second contributor from the same group would be allowed. Is that not the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Chairman. My first question has largely been answered through responses to queries by Deputy Butler so I will not go into detail on the matter to which it relates. That matter involves the healthy tension between the CER, as the regulator, and Irish Water - Ervia - as the deliverer of services. I note the difference in the presentations between Irish Water's plan up to 2021 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----but I will link my question to the capital side, to keep him happy. Other speakers managed to do that as well. Dr. McGowan said that metering is a regulatory matter but I presume the reason he is suggesting that it be parked is partly because of the deliberations of this committee and the questions we have to answer. He also said he does not have a position or an answer as to how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes, but those are the two points I want to make.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes. We are not a post-truth committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are a "truth-truth" committee so we need data and evidence before we make decisions.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 82:In page 38, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Restriction on termination of certain tenancies by landlords34. The Act of 2004 is amended in the Table to section 34 by deleting paragraph 3.”.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 73:In page 38, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"Restriction on termination of certain tenancies by landlords33. The Act of 2004 is amended in section 34 by substituting the following for paragraph 3 of the Table:"3. The landlord intends, within 3 months after the termination of the tenancy under this section, to enter into an enforceable agreement for the...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I had also marked this one to seek clarity on the reason the Minister was removing this section because an issue we were concerned about is clarification on the role of the receiver regarding tenants in that circumstance. I was happy that it was included so I seek clarity on why it is being taken out.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 63:In page 38, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Setting of rent increases above rate of inflation prohibited “32. The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after section 19A:“Setting of rent increases above rate of inflation prohibited 19B. (1) Without prejudice to section 19 and notwithstanding anything in section...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 12 to amendment No. 55:In the definition of “rent pressure zone” in subsection (7), to delete all words from and including “means an area” down to and including “section 24A.”.”.” and substitute “means the State.”.”.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 55:To delete “c is the consumer price index in the given year” and substitute the following:“c is the annual percentage change in the consumer price index, expressed in decimal notation as a fraction of 1,”.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The amendments in this group in my name are Nos. 73, 82 and 93. I will move them when we reach them. Amendments Nos. 73 and 82 relate to the issue that was raised by Deputy Healy. Focus Ireland is running a campaign to seek to ensure that tenancies are secured when buy-to-let properties are sold. Amendment No. 93, in my name and the names of a number of other Deputies, proposes to reduce...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is looking for €1 million.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: While we would all like to see the planning process sped up for large developments in order to increase supply, the method being chosen takes out the local democratic layer, though the councillors do not have a direct role, by going straight to An Bord Pleanála with these large developments. 5 o’clock A speeding up of the process could have been achieved in a different way...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Labour Party is happy to support this eminently sensible amendment. I would be surprised if the Minister has been waiting for an amendment like this to look at the issue of the causes of delays in the construction of housing. I hope the Department has already begun to do that, especially as the Minister has told us many times that there is planning permission for 27,000 housing units in...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: This debate has thrown up problems within the three emerging categories of people. For those in the Cork and Dublin areas, a 4% increase is proposed. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, who is in the Cork area, has described people's concern that their rents will increase by 4% per year. The people in Limerick city, Galway, Waterford and the area around Dublin are in the worst possible world. Their...