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Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (21 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...housing developments safety initiative was introduced earlier this year to deal with the health and safety issues presented by unfinished estates. My Department has allocated an initial €5 million to allow local authorities to identify such estates and make application for funding to alleviate the problem. To date 237 developments have been identified as qualifying for funding and...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (14 Sep 2011)

Willie Penrose: I propose to take Questions Nos. 552, 556 and 575 together. I have established and am chairing the National Co-ordination Committee on Unfinished Housing Developments to oversee implementation of the Report of the Advisory Group on Unfinished Housing Developments, together with the Government's response to the recommendations. Both documents were published on 9 June 2011 and are available...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...any member of the Government aware of how the bureaucratic monster, namely, the HSE is surreptitiously pursuing a campaign to downgrade the status of the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar? At 5 p.m. today 41 acute beds will be taken out of the most efficient hospitals in the country. No discussions took place with consultants, nurses or patients. Beds for acute patients who present...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Estates: Unfinished Housing Estates (21 Jun 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...housing developments safety initiative was introduced earlier this year to deal with the health and safety issues presented by unfinished estates. My Department has allocated an initial €5 million to allow local authorities to identify such estates and make application for funding to alleviate the problem. Currently, local authorities are conducting this survey and applying for funds as...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (16 Jun 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...developments safety initiative was introduced earlier this year to deal with the problem of the health and safety issues presented by unfinished estates. My Department has allocated an initial €5 million to allow local authorities to identify such estates and make application for funding to alleviate the problem. Currently, local authorities are conducting this survey and applying for...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (17 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...to address the difficulties associated with unfinished housing developments. On foot of the interim analysis and findings of the Advisory Group my Department made available initial funding of €5 million to local authorities to deal with immediate safety issues and works to improve the living conditions for existing residents. My Department has now put in place the necessary arrangements...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (4 Oct 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...with regard to the public safety works required to improve the living conditions of existing residents on some unfinished estates. To date, my Department has made allocations totalling some €2.16 million to fifteen local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues. The types of works that have been approved to date include the...

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (25 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...of pyrite have been discovered at three locations. These include the Ballymun Central Youth Facility, a new 124-unit apartment complex at Sillogue 4 and completed and tenanted units at Poppintree 5. Following the discovery of elevated levels of pyrite in the hardcore fill for the Youth Facility building, remedial works costing an estimated €1.25 million were carried out by the...

Social Insurance. (25 Apr 2007)

Willie Penrose: ...the future pensions of an ever-ageing population? Was a similar warning issued in a report in 2002? What is the proportion of workers to pensioners? Is this steadily declining? In 2002, some 5.3 workers paid PRSI for every pensioner. What is the figure per pensioner now? Has it not declined? Social welfare benefits are financed entirely from the social insurance fund. That is...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...who spend disproportionately more of their money on these basic items. Yet, if a deal is arrived at in the end and we avoid a no-deal Brexit, the price of inflation alone next year is estimated to be 1.5%. Whatever way we look at it, it is disgraceful that there will be no social welfare increases for the likes of pensioners and those vulnerable groups in society. The targeted...

Nursing Home Subventions. (19 Apr 2005)

Willie Penrose: ...for a rainy day or to pass on an inheritance and when they die, the sums involved will be included in the calculation of assets for the clawback. Last year, the Department clawed back over €5 million. This is a serious problem and I alert the Minister to the steam train approaching him in the form of a legal action if he does not tackle it.

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (20 Oct 2011)

Willie Penrose: I propose to take Questions Nos. 29, 39 and 45 together. The first National Housing Development Survey database, published in October 2010, established an authoritative baseline analysis of unfinished housing developments to assist in fully understanding the scale and extent of the issues involved. Last week I published the findings of the 2011 survey. This showed that the number of complete...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (21 Sep 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...with regard to the public safety works required to improve the living conditions of existing residents on some unfinished estates. To date, my Department has made allocations totalling some €2.16 million to fifteen local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues. The types of works that have been approved to date include the...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (2 Nov 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...Report of the Advisory Group on Unfinished Housing Developments , together with the Government's response to the recommendations. To date, my Department has made allocations totalling some €2.23 million to nineteen local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues. The types of works that have been approved to date include the...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (20 Sep 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...with regard to the public safety works required to improve the living conditions of existing residents on some unfinished estates. To date, my Department has made allocations totalling some €2.16 million to fifteen local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues. The types of works that have been approved include the fencing...

Housing Advice Services (17 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: I agree with Deputy Stanley and I have the commitment in this area. The €5 million is an initial amount and it is provided by the State to the local authorities. Most people in the House know that it is the developers and the owners of unfinished housing developments, or the receivers when they are appointed, who have the primary legal obligation to address outstanding problems associated...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...fair start. The motion emphasises the objectives set out by the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, Thomas Johnson, in 1913, the centenary of which we celebrated just a few years ago. 5 o’clock It further appears that some in this House would, with attempts at bullying, intimidation or something else, try to circumscribe our rights to pursue political actions or...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (16 Jun 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...on the best practice Guidance Manual on Managing and Resolving Unfinished Housing Developments, which will be published later this month. I have made the first allocations, totalling some €1.5 million, to ten local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues and works to improve the living conditions of existing residents on...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall within 6 months from after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the clawback policy by the State from the estates of the deceased of non-contributory pensions where the assets were accrued exclusively or partly from savings for...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Estates: Unfinished Housing Estates (3 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...with unfinished housing developments effectively and promptly. On foot of the interim analysis and findings of the Advisory Group, which was published on 17 February 2011, initial funding of €5 million is being made available to local authorities to deal with immediate safety issues and works to improve the living conditions for existing residents. My Department has put in place the...