Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)

Amendments Nos. 60, 83 and 104 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Government amendment No. 60:

In page 26, subsection (2), line 35, after "or" to insert "provided under".

Amendments Nos. 60 and 83 are required so that the provisions concerned apply to dwellings provided under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, but without specifying whether such dwellings are provided by a housing or planning authority. This is because social housing, provided under the Planning and Development Act, may be provided either by a local authority, in its capacity as a planning authority, or as a housing authority arising from the application of Part V of the Act to particular lands or dwellings. Amendment No. 104 deals with broadly the same issue. This amendment refers to section 99 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 set out in Part 7 of the Schedule. It refers to a local authority in its capacity as a planning authority as distinct from a housing authority. Section 99 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides for profit claw backs on resales of affordable housing provided by the planning authorities under Part V of the Act.

Amendment agreed to.

Government amendment No. 61:

In page 27, subsection (6), line 50, to delete "section 56 of the Principal Act or under this Act" and substitute "section 11".

This amendment deletes the reference to section 56 of the Housing Act 1966 in section 28(6) which deals with the letting of allotments by housing authorities and replaces it with a reference to section 11 of the Bill. Section 56 of the 1956 Act is being repealed in Schedule 1 of the Bill. Section 11 lists allotments as one of the services ancillary to the provision of housing.