Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency (Establishment) Order 2012.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: This Order may be cited as the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency (Establishment) Order 2012.
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paragraphs: This Order shall come into effect on 1 August 2012 and that day shall be the establishment day.
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paragraphs: In this Order_
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paragraphs: A body to be called and known as An GnÃ­omhaireacht TithÃ­ocht agus Comhphobail Inbhuanaithe or, in the English language, the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency, hereinafter referred to as the Housing Agency, is established to provide the services specified in Article 5—
(a) for, and on behalf of, the Minister and each authority to which the Act applies, in the performance of their functions under the Housing Acts, and
(b) for a designated body.
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paragraphs: The services to be provided by the Housing Agency shall be:
(a) shared and central services;
(b) research, advisory, information and training services;
(c) consultancy, technical and strategic planning services;
(d) procurement services;
(e) agency services;
(f) at the request of the Minister, the preparation, holding, management and publication of indices of residential property, including indices in relation to residential housing sales and residential property rents;
(g) the arrangement, co-ordination and provision of social and economic regeneration, including the development and improvement of land and infrastructure; and
(h) the coordination of, and contribution to, the resolution of issues relating to unfinished housing developments.
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paragraphs: (1) The members of the Housing Agency shall be appointed by the Minister and the number of members so appointed at any time shall be not less than seven and not more than nine.
(2) The members of the Housing Agency shall constitute a Board which shall conduct the Agency’s business and a reference in this Order to a Board member shall be construed as a reference to a member of the Agency.
(3) The membership of the Board shall comprise the following:
(a) a Chairperson appointed by the Minister;
(b) one serving officer from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, as nominated by the Minister;
(c) one serving officer from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, as nominated by the Minister of that Department;
(d) two members nominated by the County and City Managers Association, one of whom shall be a serving County or City Manager, and one of whom shall be a serving Finance Officer;
(e) a person nominated by the Irish Council for Social Housing;
(f) the Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Agency; and
(g) such other persons, not being more than two, as the Minister may from time to time consider appropriate.
(4) The term of office of a Board member shall be such period not exceeding five years as may be specified by the Minister upon such appointment and such member shall hold office for that period unless sooner dying, resigning or otherwise ceasing to be a qualified person.
(5) A Board member, including the Chairperson, whose term of office expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for re-appointment to serve a second term, subject to a limit of serving no more than ten years on the Board.
(6) The Board may act notwithstanding a vacancy among its members.
(7) The quorum for meetings of the Board shall be three members.
(8) A Board member may at any time resign his or her membership by letter addressed to the Minister and the resignation shall take effect from the date specified in the letter or upon receipt of the letter by the Minister, whichever is the later.
(9) A Board member shall cease to be a member of the Board on his or her being requested by the Minister to resign.
(10) A person shall cease to be, and shall be disqualified from being, a Board member where he or she—
(a) is adjudicated bankrupt,
(b) makes a composition or arrangement with creditors,
(c) is sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction to a term of imprisonment, or
(d) is disqualified or restricted from being a director of any company.
(11) Where a Board member or an employee of the Housing Agency—
(a) accepts a nomination as a member of Seanad Ãireann,
(b) is elected to either House of the Oireachtas or to the European Parliament,