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Question· writtenPQ 22asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
22. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in the aftermath of his welcome investment in the public housing programme, if that programme can be accelerated to provide substantially more housing accommodation in the short to medium term, if he will put a sequence of steps in place, in conjunction with the local authorities, to access off-balance sheet recorded funding in each local authority area where major housing waiting lists currently exist, if he will put a strategic plan in place to drive the programme to a much greater extent than has been possible heretofore, by raising the house completion targets substantially on a monthly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44099/15]
Question· writtenPQ 21asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
21. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for replenishing actual housing stock, given the announcement of the new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44130/15]
Question· writtenPQ 20asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
20. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why he places a limit of €30,000 when considering applications for the funding of vacant housing units owned by local authorities and long-term voids, given that there is such a large number of vacant social housing units in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44123/15]
Question· writtenPQ 15asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
15. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the discussions and negotiations he has had with the National Asset Management Agency on increasing its provision of social housing units, if the agency is doing all within its authority and mandate to increase the supply of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44119/15]
Question· writtenPQ 14asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
14. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Number 731 of 6 October 2015, the status of the 1,400 homes to be transferred from the National Asset Management Agency to local authorities; if the full 2,501 homes have been purchased and at what prices, or leased; what is the monthly payment for these leasing arrangements for each home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44131/15]
Question· writtenPQ 13asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
13. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of residential units made available to local authorities in 2015, the number of these made available to citizens and families in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44045/15]
Question· writtenPQ 11asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
11. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government given that capital-funded social housing provision targets, including new-builds and units provided under the rental accommodation scheme and long-term leasing are well-below the level targeted for 2015, if he will revise his targets for capital funded social housing provision for the 2015 to 2017 period downwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44120/15]
Question· oralPQ 10asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to lift the restriction in the rental accommodation scheme which requires applicants to be in receipt of rent allowance to allow those in low-paid work to access the scheme, as the housing assistance payment has not been rolled out across all local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44132/15]
Question· oralPQ 9asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
9. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the investigation panel to examine the mica issue will be set up and functioning, its terms of reference and when it will report its findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44136/15]
Question· oralPQ 7asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
7. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce specific measures targeted at increasing the capacity of local authorities to build social housing units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44125/15]
Question· oralPQ 5asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
5. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in the context of the current housing and homelessness emergency and in order to accelerate the delivery of permanent social housing, if he will consider the purchase of hundreds of permanent homes currently advertised for sale as an alternative to modular housing, the direct transfer of National Asset Management Agency property and cash reserves to the local authorities, and the direct employment by the State of building workers, architects, engineers and so on to build social housing and thus eliminate the lengthy delays involved in the outsourcing and tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44256/15]
Question· oralPQ 4asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
4. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will describe the discussions and negotiations he has had with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, in respect of increasing its provision of social housing units; if he is satisfied the agency is doing all within its authority and legal mandate to increase the supply of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44313/15]
Question· oralPQ 2asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2015
2. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will alter the new tenant purchase scheme to include Part V housing to change the terms of the scheme regarding sale price and market value and to factor in the length of the tenancy. [44252/15]
Bill· HRH.R. 4211 (114th)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 2015
Credit Score Competition Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to authorize the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (government sponsored enterprises, or GSEs) to use credit scores in purchasing residential mortgages only under certain conditions, including that the GSE has established and made publicly available a description of the process it will use to validate and approve credit scoring models. The Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency may, by regulation, establish standards and criteria for any process used by a GSE to validate and approve credit scoring models pursuant to the Acts.
Bill· SS. 2391 (114th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 2015
American Clean Energy Investment Act of 2015 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify tax provisions relating to energy. TITLE I--REDUCING CARBON POLLUTION AND CREATING JOBS BY TRANSITIONING TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOURCES This title makes permanent: (1) the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources, (2) the energy tax credit, and (3) the qualifying advanced energy project credit. The Department of the Treasury must provide grants to tax-exempt organizations for investment in specified energy property, including qualified fuel cell property, solar property, qualified small wind energy property, geothermal property, qualified microturbine property, combined heat and power system property, and geothermal heat pump property. The title expands the energy tax credit to allow a 30% credit for investment in offshore wind energy facilities. TITLE II--SAVING CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES MONEY BY PROMOTING ENERGY EFFICIENCY This title makes permanent the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings and updates the energy standard applicable to such buildings. Also made permanent are the tax credits for new energy efficient homes, for nonbusiness energy property, and for residential energy efficient property. TITLE III--HELPING AMERICANS MOVE BEYOND OIL This title: (1) eliminates the phaseout of the applicable percentage for the tax credit for investment in new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles, (2) makes permanent the credit for two and three-wheeled plug-in electric vehicles, (3) increases the dollar limitation on the battery capacity for such vehicles from $5,000 to $7,500, and (4) makes the personal tax credit allowed for investment in such vehicles refundable. The title makes permanent: (1) the tax credit for investment in hybrid medium and heavy-duty trucks, and (2) the parity at $250 of the tax exclusion for employer-provided mass transit and parking benefits. The title extends through 2022: (1) the second generation biofuel producer credit, and (2) the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel, (3) the special depreciation allowance for second generation biofuel plant property, and (4) the tax credit for alternative vehicle refueling property expenditures. New income and excise tax credits at $1.00 per gallon are allowed for the production of biodiesel and an increased credit is allowed for small biodiesel producers.
Bill· HRH.R. 4210 (114th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 2015
This bill amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to: (1) require each voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council to testify at least twice each year before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee if invited to do so; and (2) permit Members of Congress who serve on such committees to attend council meetings, regardless of whether such meetings are open to the public, if in any year a council member fails to testify at least twice before each such committee after being invited to do so.
Motion· Motie2015Z24138rejected
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 10 December 2015
Motie van de leden Ronnes en Keijzer over de huisvesting van vluchtelingen
Motion· Motie2015Z24226concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 10 December 2015
Motie van het lid Krol over de mogelijkheden van nieuwbouw op de plaats van het "hotel"
Motion· Motie2015Z24136adopted
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 10 December 2015
Motie van het lid Bashir over meer betaalbare huurwoningen voor ouderen of mensen met een beperking
Question· Written questionUIN 19364answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much will be made available in additional discretionary housing payments for people in supported accommodation in each financial year from 2018-19 to 2020-21.
Question· Written questionUIN 19464answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the application of local housing allowance rates for housing benefit paid in the social sector will take into account core rent and housing service charge elements.
Question· Written questionUIN 19365answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) housing benefit claimant count and (b) average weekly housing benefit award is for tenants in supported accommodation in each (i) county, (ii) region, (iii) local authority and (iv) valuati
Question· Written questionUIN 19465answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average weekly rent and service charge for supported accommodation including (a) foyers, (b) direct access hostels, (c) supported housing for older people and (d) other supported
Question· Written questionUIN 19394answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of change of housing benefit for tenants in supported accommodation as a result of changes to housing benefit announced in the Autumn Statement 2015.
Question· Written questionUIN 19390answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to make decisions about changes to housing benefit entitlements for tenants of supported accommodation before the completion of research in this area which has been commissioned by the
Question· Written questionUIN 19317answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to tackle landlords who knowingly rent out unsafe and substandard accommodation.
Question· Written questionUIN 19344answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the extent of financial and operational links between the social housing sector in Scotland and England.
Question· Written questionHL HL4421answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the net change in the number of homes in the UK between May 2015 and May 2020.
Question· Written questionHL HL4422answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the net change in the number of homes in the UK for social rent between May 2015 and May 2020.
Question· Written questionHL HL4423answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the total number of new homes that will be completed in the UK between May 2015 and May 2020.
Question· Written questionHL HL4424answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their current estimate of the total number of new homes that will be completed in the UK after May 2020.
Question· writtenPQ 202asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
202. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of reports of land hoarding taking place in the Dublin area in respect of land zoned for housing, if this is a factor in the depressed supply of housing, why he wrote to the chief executives of the four Dublin local authorities in June 2015, advising them not to rezone any further land for housing; and if he will review this advice. [44422/15]
Question· writtenPQ 200asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
200. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to support rent supplement and housing assistance payment limits and introduce rent certainty as short-term housing measures, as advised by the National Economic and Social Council; to make better use and provide quicker turnaround of State properties and local authority voids that are empty; to enhance prevention and early intervention measures to support persons in their homes; to explore the efficacy of modular homes, ensuring that this does not become a long-term measure; to access affordable housing with support, as a solution to the housing and homeless crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44378/15]
Question· writtenPQ 199asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
199. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications received from Donegal County Council for social housing units under the Social Housing Strategy 2020; the number of applications made with respect to long-term voids and to new builds; the cost which these applications collectively represent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44365/15]
Question· writtenPQ 197asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
197. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that more than 10% of the 20,000 houses being built by the National Asset Management Agency in the coming years are provided for social housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44327/15]
Question· writtenPQ 195asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
195. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will request the National Asset Management Agency to undertake and organise a major programme of social housing in the Dublin north fringe and Fingal south fringe zones, given the failure of private developers to develop the north fringe as a high specification new urban region since the late 1990s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44302/15]
Question· writtenPQ 192asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
192. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has analysed the proportion of council homes purchased under previous tenant purchase schemes that have ended up owned by landlords in the private rented sector; and how many of these are rent supplement, housing assistance payment or rental accommodation scheme tenancies. [44274/15]
Question· writtenPQ 191asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
191. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the figures provided to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on 24 November 2015 projecting 950 local authority new builds and acquisitions and 440 new units under the capital assistance programme by the end of 2015 when compared with the latest on his Department’s website for the first six months of the year showing 246 local authority new builds and acquisitions in the first half of 2015, including 20 new builds and 226 acquisitions, and 157 new housing association units, mean that there will be 704 local authority new builds and acquisitions in the second half of 2015, including in excess of 180 local authority new builds, plus 283 new units provided by voluntary housing associations under the capital assistance scheme; and if not, to provide alternative figures broken down under these headings. [44273/15]
Question· writtenPQ 190asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
190. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the new builds and acquisitions to be completed and the new units to be provided by housing associations under the capital assistance scheme by local authority area in the second half of 2015 in tabular form. [44272/15]
Question· writtenPQ 64asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
64. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients under the rent supplement scheme, of active tenancies under the housing assistance payment scheme, the number of households who have applied to have their rent supplement increased above the current threshold, the number who have had their rent supplement increased, the number who have been refused, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44432/15]
Question· writtenPQ 53asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2015
53. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why there are so many recipients of rent supplement in the local authorities where the housing assistance payment has been rolled out, given that the level of allowable rent is much higher under the housing assistance payment than under the rent supplement; and the number of new recipients of rent supplement since the housing assistance payment has been rolled out in the local authorities where it is available by local authority. [44265/15]
Bill· HRH.R. 4200 (114th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 2015
Military Family Stability Act of 2015 This bill allows a member of the Armed Forces undergoing a permanent change of station and the member's spouse to elect jointly that the spouse may relocate to the new location at the time during the covered relocation period as the member and spouse jointly select. The following families shall be eligible: the spouse is employed, or enrolled in a degree-, certificate-, or license-granting program, at the beginning of the covered relocation period; the member and spouse have one or more children in school; the spouse or children are covered under the Exceptional Family Member Program; the member and spouse are caring for an immediate family member with a chronic or long-term illness; or the member is undergoing a permanent change of station as an individual augmentee or other deployment arrangement. Families with other needs may receive exceptions granted by military commanders on a case-by-case basis. A member undergoing a permanent change of station who has one or more specified dependents and is no longer married to the individual who is or was the parent of such dependents at the beginning of the covered period of relocation may elect that such dependents relocate to the new location as follows: by the member alone if the former spouse is dead or has no custodial rights, or by the member and the former spouse jointly in all other circumstances. A member may not make: more than three elections; or any election unless the member's period of obligated service, or the time remaining under the member's enlistment contract, at the time of election is at least 24 months. The bill prescribes related housing and housing allowance requirements. Transportation allowances authorized for personal property of a member and spouse may be allocated as the member and spouse select. The Department of Defense shall establish a single application approval process for coverage under this Act which shall apply uniformly among the Armed Forces.
Record· debate2015-12-08published
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2015
Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Question· Written questionUIN 19268answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that landlords in the private rented sector comply with the requirement for properties to be a minimum of energy efficiency rating E by April 2017.
Question· Written questionUIN 902687answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of homes built for social rent since 2010.
Question· Written questionUIN 19267answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to require social landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock.
Question· Written questionUIN 19075answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will expand the Targeted Affordability Fund to assist with changes to housing benefit in the social sector announced in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.
Question· Written questionUIN 19079answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations which had planned, prior to the announcement in paragraph 1.125 of the Spending R
Question· Written questionUIN 19145answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps his Department has taken to help councils to house refugees.
Question· Written questionUIN 19148answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 1.126 of Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what funding for Discretionary Housing Payments he plans to provide to local authorities in addition to that announced in