To ask the Manager, to report on progress made in relation to housing refurbishment programmes currently taking place within the County identifying the number of units refurbished to date in each area and are these numbers in line with the timeframes given at the commencement of the individual programmes?

• Q9Housing refurbishment programmes

"That this Committee, calls on the Manager to arrange for houses 442-449 Cushlawn Park to be given priority in terms of the refurbishment programme as these houses are being directly affected by the infill development currently under construction which is causing major disruption to the families involved".

• Motion 3

To ask the Manager to outline what locations are available within the South Dublin County Council area for the receipt of  "small builders rubble", what are their opening hours and what charges are in effect for receipt of such rubbish?

• Q 20 Small Builders Rubble

To ask the Manager to outline the process and procedures involved where a resident, as the result of illness or age related problems, applies to the Council for a grant to adjust their home or add an extension?

• Q 21Grants

To ask the Manager to explain the delay in processing and approving grants that would enable the sick and the elderly carry out essential adjustments and/or extensions to their place of residence so that they may live as comfortably as possible and be cared for by their family in their own community and to include in her answer how the Council proposes to remedy the situation, given the fact  that such cases are practically always extremely urgent and that the present situation is unsustainable and a source of great trauma both to the sick and to their families?

 

• Q 22 Grants

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on the planned transfer of those in receipt of Rent Allowance onto a Council administered scheme for private tenants, and if he can advise who can go on the Council administered scheme and how people can apply?

• Q 23 Rent Allowance

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on the criteria and conditions which will apply to purchasers of housing units sold under the Affordable Housing Initiative( Sustaining Progress)  in April 2006, where units are sold by purchasers within ten years of purchase and if the criteria and conditions which apply to "clawback" are the same as in the case of the other two streams of Affordable Housing operated by the Council?

• Q24 Affordable Housing initative

To ask the Manager if he will outline the measures taken by the Council to ensure that the housing needs of approved applicants were taken into account by the developer and the selling agent in the sale of housing units under the Affordable Housing Initiative (Sustaining Progress) in April 2006, including measures to ensure that, as far as possible, the units offered to approved applicants were appropriate, in terms of number of bedrooms, to the number of family members, including children, of the approved applicants?

• Q25 Affordable Housing Initiative

To ask the Manager if he can advise if the estate agent involved in the selling of units under the Affordable Housing Initiative(Sustaining Progress) in April 2006 is being paid a fee in respect of the sale of each unit, how much was the fee, and was the fee included in the price of the units and paid by the purchasers, or was the fee paid by the developer, and if so did the developer absorb the total cost of the selling fees or was the cost of the fees paid from Council or exchequer funds?

• Q26 Affordable Housing initative

Letter, dated 13th April 2006 from Fingal County Council regarding motion passed expressing opposition to the provision of the Strategic Infrastructure Bill.

(circulated herewith)

• Fingal County Council

That this Council supports the Property Path initiative and is concerned that the  allocation/sale of housing units in April 2006 under the affordable housing under the Affordable Housing Initiative (Sustaining Progress) was done by a private Estate Agent rather than the Council's Property Path, and requests the Manager to make a report setting out measures put in place by the Council to ensure that the sale of the units was underpinned by principles of housing need, transparency of procedures, accountability on the part of the developer and the selling agent, and to report on what conditions were put in place regarding "clawback" in the event of the early re-sale of units. 

That this Council supports the Property Path initiative and is concerned that the  allocation/sale of housing units in April 2006 under the affordable housing under the Affordable Housing Initiative (Sustaining Progress) was done by a private Estate Agent rather than the Council's Property Path, and requests the Manager to make a report setting out measures put in place by the Council to ensure that the sale of the units was underpinned by principles of housing need, transparency of procedures, accountability on the part of the developer and the selling agent, and to report on what conditions were put in place regarding "clawback" in the event of the early re-sale of units. 

That this Council supports the Property Path initiative and is concerned that the  allocation/sale of housing units in April 2006 under the affordable housing under the Affordable Housing Initiative (Sustaining Progress) was done by a private Estate Agent rather than the Council's Property Path, and requests the Manager to make a report setting out measures put in place by the Council to ensure that the sale of the units was underpinned by principles of housing need, transparency of procedures, accountability on the part of the developer and the selling agent, and to report on what conditions were put in place regarding "clawback" in the event of the early re-sale of units. 

To ask the Manager to contact the Minister for the Environment and Local Government as a matter of urgency requesting an immediate review of Local Electoral boundaries in light of the massive democratic deficit that exists within the county with regard to the number of councillors allocated to each electoral area when population and voter numbers in each area are compared with other areas. Could the report presented to this meeting include a breakdown of the current situation?

• Q10 Review of LEA Boundaries

To ask the Manager to review the safety of all bridges that traverse roads within the county, with a view to assessing the need for the erection of decorative protective fencing to prevent the danger of objects falling on passing traffic?

• Q. 11 Bridge Cages

To ask the Manager to immediately ensure, from the date of today’s meeting onwards, that all Development Levies that are receipted in the Council’s Planning Department on a Countywide basis are also recorded in such a way as to enable a breakdown, electoral area by electoral area, to be provided to Councillors?

• Q12 Dev Contributions

To ask the Manager to report upon what changes have been made to the Council’s three year capital programme with regard to the future of the Council’s Water Leisure Strategy in light of the fact that most of the funding for future pools will have to be provided from Council resources? 

• Q13 Water Leisure Strategy

To ask the Manager to make a statement on the current procedure for the allocation of affordable housing within the county with regard to the need to ensure that the best use possible is made of the various sizes of housing units that become available and to make changes to the system that requires people to queue up over a number of nights in order to acquire housing?

• Q14 Allocation of Affordable Housing

That this Council requests the Manager to outline the projected expenditure accounted for in the 3 year Capital programme in each electoral area with regard to Community Parks and Libraries (programme 6) and development (programme 4) and insists that the obvious imbalance in the even distribution of the funding county-wide is immediately rectified.

That this Council requests the Manager to outline the projected expenditure accounted for in the 3 year Capital programme in each electoral area with regard to Community Parks and Libraries (programme 6) and development (programme 4) and insists that the obvious imbalance in the even distribution of the funding county-wide is immediately rectified.