Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 June 2016
212. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the definition of anti-social behaviour for council tenants; and his plans to add domestic violence to that description in the future. [18349/16]
View answer“Anti-social behaviour” is defined in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 as including either or both of the following,
(a) the manufacture, production, preparation, importation, exportation, sale, supply, possession for the purposes of sale or supply, or distribution of a controlled drug (within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977 to 2007),
(b) any behaviour which causes or is likely to cause any significant or persistent danger, injury, damage, alarm, loss or fear to any person living, working or otherwise lawfully in or in the vicinity of a house provided by a housing authority under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2014 or Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 or a housing estate in which the house is situate and, without prejudice to the foregoing, includes:
(i) violence, threats, intimidation, coercion, harassment or serious obstruction of any person;
(ii) behaviour which causes any significant or persistent impairment of a person’s use or enjoyment of his or her home; or
(iii) damage to or defacement by writing or other marks of any property, including a person’s home.
I have no plans at present to amend this definition.
