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Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (16 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 577 and 589 together. Details of the revised housing adaptation grant schemes for older people and people with a disability were announced earlier this year as part of the Government's new housing policy statement Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities. Three new schemes are to be introduced, a Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, a...

Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (16 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: My Department recoups to local authorities 90% of their approved current expenditure on the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Much of this expenditure is operationalised through projects managed by voluntary bodies. My Department has received a proposal from Donegal County Council for...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (16 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: Eligibility generally for the affordable housing schemes is determined on the basis that applicants are in need of housing and cannot afford to purchase a house on the open market. In the case of the shared ownership and 1999 affordable housing schemes, single applicants are eligible where their income in the previous tax year was €40,000 or under. In the case of a two income household,...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (16 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: Affordable housing is made available at below market prices through a range of delivery mechanisms which have been put in place. These include the provision of direct subsidies by my Department to local authorities in respect of individual schemes, the provision of land by the State and local authorities at below market value, and the capacity, through Part V of the Planning and Development...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (16 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: My Department has recently received proposals in relation to this project. Given the scale of the development proposed, further discussions between my Department and the Council will be necessary before any decision can be made in this matter.

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (16 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: There are a number of schemes operated by my Department which provide assistance to older people in carrying out essential repairs and improvements. The Essential Repairs Grant Scheme is designed to enable people whose houses cannot be made habitable in all respects at a reasonable cost to have basic repairs carried out. The types of work allowable under the scheme, which is administered by...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (17 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: Data on the sale of local authority houses to tenants in the period 2002 to 2006 are contained in section 6 of the recently published Annual Housing Statistics Bulletin 2006, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and on my Department's website at www.environ.ie. The information sought on the resale of such houses is not available in my Department.

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (17 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: I have no function in relation to individual property transactions under the tenant purchase scheme, which are the responsibility of the local authority concerned, operating within the framework set down in primary legislation and regulations made thereunder. Article 85(2) of the Housing Regulations 1980 prescribes the form of the transfer order for the purchase of the fee simple in local...

Written Answers — Voluntary Housing: Voluntary Housing (17 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, through its role as chair of the National Steering Committee on Violence against Women, has overall responsibility for issues relating to violence against women. In relation to accommodation, capital funding is available through my Department's Capital Assistance Scheme to voluntary housing bodies providing accommodation to meet special...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (17 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: The correspondence concerned has not been received in my Department. In the event of it being submitted in the normal way, I will arrange for a response to be issued in respect of those matters falling within my Department's remit.

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (17 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: The correspondence concerned has not been received in my Department. In the event of it being submitted in the normal way, I will arrange for a response to be issued in respect of those matters falling within my Department's remit.

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (17 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: My Department's involvement in the disabled persons and essential repair grant schemes relates primarily to the recoupment of a proportion of local authority expenditure on the payment of individual grants. The administration of the schemes and decisions on individual applications are the responsibility of the appropriate local authority. The combined capital allocation to local authorities...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: The local authority made a submission in respect of the development in question on 24 July 2007. The submission was considered by my Department and a letter issued to the authority on 12 September 2007 requesting clarification on a number of points. A reply is awaited from the local authority.

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (18 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 233 and 234 together. Details of the revised housing adaptation grant schemes for older people and people with a disability were announced earlier this year as part of the Government's new housing policy statement Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities. Three new schemes are to be introduced, a Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, a...

Written Answers — Housing Statistics: Housing Statistics (18 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: Details in relation to the number of houses and apartments completed in each local authority area, for each of the years requested and in the first 6 months of 2007 inclusive, are published in my Department's Quarterly and Annual Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas library. These details are also available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie....

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: The most recent assessment of need for social housing was undertaken by local authorities in March 2005. The results of that assessment indicated that there were 5,617 households on Dublin City Council's waiting list in 2005, a drop from the 2002 figure of 6,993. The corresponding figures for Fingal County Council are 1,976 in 2005 and 1,769 in 2002. The numbers of homeless households in...

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (18 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: The housing component of National Development Plan 2007-2013 is being delivered through two sub-programmes: Social Housing Provision and Renewal, and Affordable Housing and Targeted Private Housing Supports. Investment under each sub-programme of some €14 billion and €4 billion, respectively, has been committed over the period of the plan and expenditure at the end of September 2007...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: The provision of accommodation by approved voluntary and co-operative housing bodies is an integral part of my Department's overall response to delivering on social housing need. In cases where a particular social housing need exists and where a voluntary housing body is unable to meet this need from its existing housing stock, the person or family concerned should apply to the relevant...

Written Answers — Management Fees: Management Fees (23 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: My Department has no function in relation to the cost of management and maintenance of private accommodation. Property management companies, consisting of the owners of dwellings, are generally constituted under the Companies Acts and are required to operate in compliance with company law, which comes within the area of responsibility of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment....

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Oct 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: The question of facilitating arrangements for persons in affordable housing wishing to re-mortgage with private lenders has been the subject of discussions between my Department and a number of the financial institutions. The current practice requires that if a private lender agrees to provide re-mortgage finance it will be on the basis that their mortgage charge will rank below the clawback...