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JAN O’SULLIVAN, MINISTER for Housing and Planning, today launched a draft voluntary code for the regulation of approved housing bodies.
The draft code, which can be found on the department’s website, is available for public consultation until 21 September, and will be formally launched thereafter.
Today the Minister recognised the work done by approved housing bodies over the last twenty years or so.
“The government’s Housing Policy, published a year ago, recognises the central role that the voluntary and co-operative sector will play in the coming years,” she said.
“The funding environment for the sector has changed dramatically in recent years and if the sector is to attract the necessary public and private investment we must have a strong regulatory regime in place to provide independent validation of the sector’s performance.”
Key features of the code include:
O’Sullivan said the draft code is a first step towards a statutory regulatory framework that will protect the significant State investment in the sector over the last two decades. She added that it will also provide assistance to those working in the sector to meet the challenges ahead.
Several hundred approved housing bodies are operating in the sector and they vary greatly in scale and ambition, from small bodies with a handful of housing units run entirely by volunteers to large bodies with several thousand units and dozens of full time staff.
The draft code outlines minimum regulatory standards that will apply to all and additional standards and requirements that apply to larger bodies.
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Michelle your a fine thing
all the journal staff are fine things
” your s fine thing ” sexism is alive and well ! Did you walk out of the cave last night to throw rocks at the moon !
That’s not sexism – calling it sexism suggests that he wouldn’t say the same about a male reporter.
But then, if he’s not gay/bisexual or if that imaginary male reporter was as ugly as a bottle of chips maybe they wouldn’t think of them as “a fine thing”
Not sexist, certainly inappropriate, but not sexist.
this means jack shit to be honest. there needs to be proper legistlation. too many people are freezing to death in their homes due to lax building regulations. the builders have destroyed this country
The key word in this is “voluntary” doesn’t mean they have to comply with the code
It may as well be voluntary Joe as enforcement in this country is a joke!
Is this government dumb? Homebond should have sorted out the pyrite issue but didn’t. and they were obliged to.
Why would anyone sign up to this when their first defense could be that they don’t have the money to sort it out. “Sure aren’t we on a recession.”
This is commonly known as “Light touch regulation”. We have learned nothing.
How many different regulatory agencies does a country with a population the size of greater Manchester need?…..more nest lining for political appointees
It is just not good enough. Voluntary codes mean nothing if and when it comes time to apply them. Bring in legislation that means builders, providers, architects, developers & local authorities can be held accountable if faults develop in a property & then we’ll be talking. We have laws that state if the goods are not of merchantable quality then you’re entitled to your money back but this doesn’t apply it seems to the biggest purchase a person is likely to make which is madness. Sort out the laws, make people & businesses accountable and we will then start to see progress.
Accountability & transparency, the horse has not just bolted
It walked out, went to the nearest petrol station, got a gallon of petrol and burnt the stable to the ground
What qualifies this woman for her role like so many TD’s
Limerick is a total mess with every second shop closed, it’s like a black hole due to obscene planning
And it is this woman’s back yard as a politician for years
But of course the bad planning = no one held to account, who gets the bullet ?
I love Limerick, but I am infuriated by this bs
Parish pump politicians do what the horse did to your own constituency offices
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