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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: Pillar 5 of the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is specifically focused on Utilising Existing Housing Stock, with a key objective of ensuring that the existing vacant housing stock throughout the country and across all forms of tenure, in both the public and private sectors, is used to the optimum degree possible. In this regard, Action 5.1 of...

Seanad: Derelict and Vacant Sites Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: ...Sites Act 1990, the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, as recently amended by the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016, and the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015. The principle changes to the three Acts can be summarised as follows: to increase the levies applicable to derelict and vacant sites from the currently prescribed 3% of the market value to 5%;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: ..., further reinforces the Government's commitment to the area of urban regeneration. In this context, the Government launched the Town and Village Renewal Scheme last August with an allocation of €10 million in funding for the year. A sum of €380,000 was made available to each of the 26 counties for 2016 under this initial phase of the scheme. Local Authorities, in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Estates (31 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: ...by my Department and would be obtainable from the relevant local authority in the normal manner. The National Taking-in-Charge Initiative (NTICI) for residential estates, with funding of €10 million, was launched in April 2016 to explore enhanced systems and procedures and new methods of working to accelerate the taking-in-charge process of housing estates. Further information on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (19 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: Pillar 5 of the Government’s Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness – Rebuilding Irelandis specifically focussed on utilising existing housing stock with a key objective of ensuring that the existing vacant homes throughout the country and across all forms of tenure, in both the public and private sectors, are used to the optimum degree possible. In this regard, Action 5.1 of...

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

Simon Coveney: Amendment, No. 55 incorporates the changes that we made this morning. That is my understanding. I will give an answer to the second half of Deputy Jonathan O'Brien's question that I had not an opportunity to provide earlier. A tenancy whereby a group of tenants jointly occupy a single residential unit will be protected under the rent predictability measure. Let me be clear on the issue...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: All local authorities, including Cavan and Monaghan were notified in April 2015 of social housing delivery targets and provisional funding allocations out to end-2017. These are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Together, these two local authorities have a target to deliver 445 social housing units for the period out to 2017, supported by an allocation of...

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...depending on the circumstances of each acquisition. In the case of development land acquired, the Bill proposes that compensation for acquisition by a local authority would comprise the cost of such land calculated at current use value plus 25%, rather than open market value. In the case of distressed land acquired, compensation would comprise the cost of land acquisition, the cost of any...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...institutes for the purpose of providing student accommodation. In addition, as a new initiative identified in Rebuilding Ireland, the Housing Agency is to be provided with capital funding of €70 million, with the specific focus of acquiring properties from financial institutions for social housing nationally thereby increasing social housing delivery. As a support mechanism...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (24 Nov 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 120 and 121 together. The local authorities in Cavan and Monaghan were notified in April 2015 of social housing delivery targets and provisional funding allocations out to end-2017. These are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Together, these two local authorities have a target to deliver 445 social housing units for the...

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...is already turning to other alternatives. The fact that marine litter is a transboundary issue means no one country can solve the problem on its own. While a domestic ban by a population of 5 million in isolation may send a positive message, banning the use of microbeads by a population of over 500 million would be much more effective. However, I recognise that there is a value in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...Ireland contains a number of key actions that are capable of supporting the accelerated delivery of mixed-tenure housing from local authority sites. These include the commitment to spend over €5 billion on adding a significant number of social housing units to our existing stock, the €200 million local infrastructure housing activation fund and the major urban housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Simon Coveney: Total funding of €933 million has been made available in 2016 for the provision of housing. This includes a capital provision of €180.12 million to support the provision of local authority housing through a programme of construction and acquisitions. To date in 2016, €137 million has been expended under the local authority programme, representing 76% of the 2016...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...is familiar, as well as our economy in general. To put this in context, we are at present only building between 12,000 and 13,000 new housing units per year when we should be building upwards of 25,000 units to meet the demand that prevails. It is not an overstatement to say that this level of under-supply is a crisis situation which, as I have stated, has significant impacts on people in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (16 Nov 2016)

Simon Coveney: The development of new social housing in counties Cavan and Monaghan is, in the first instance, a matter for the respective local authorities. Both local authorities were notified in April 2015 of social housing targets and provisional funding allocations out to end-2017; these are available on my Department’s website at the following link:. Together these two local authorities have a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department has provided €60 million over the two year period 2014 to 2015 to support local authorities in returning over 5,000 vacant units to productive use. To date in 2016, €24 million has been allocated for the remediation of over 1,300 units. This funding, therefore, will bring the number of units remediated to well in excess of 6,000 between 2014 and 2016; these units...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...’s domestic and international environmental standards and obligations; the role of the regulator; and submissions from interested parties. The commission placed a call for public submissions between 5 August and 9 September. I thank all those who used the opportunity to put their views and positions to the commission during this period. To ensure the commission’s...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...are a matter for the utility and one in which I have no function. Irish Water has published information on bill payment levels on its website at www.water.ie, which indicates that some €162.5 million had been collected in domestic water charges to the end of its 5thbilling cycle. Costs associated with the collection or reimbursement of domestic water charges by Irish Water would be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (19 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...local authorities to prepare such units for re-letting in an energy efficient condition. It should be noted that local authorities can and do contribute additional funding where appropriate. Between 2014 and 2015, my Department provided funding of €60 million to assist local authorities in returning 5,000 vacant units to productive use, with a further €24 million being...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...to have a positive impact. These include reducing development contributions, the vacant site levy, on which the committee wants us to go further but we have to follow legal advice on what is possible, and modifications to Part 5. I am a little wary of that. In terms of getting finance, developers need certainty but we need to go way beyond 10% where possible when putting together...