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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the nine year period of the plan to 2030. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes to be facilitated by Local Authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing out to 2030 comprising of 54,000 affordable homes to be delivered by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through the First Home Scheme, which is a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. Following the publication of Housing for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 and 87 together. Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the nine year period of the plan to 2030. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes to be facilitated by Local Authorities, Approved Housing Bodies...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The planned review of targets is underway and, once again, will be based on independent, peer reviewed research and modelling by the ESRI. Importantly, the ESRI is not developing housing targets. Rather, it is researching and modelling a range of scenarios for future demographic housing demand at local authority level for each year to 2040. Accordingly, while some level of pent-up demand...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under planning legislation, enforcement of planning control is a matter for the relevant planning authority which can take action if a development does not have the required permission, or where the terms of a permission have not been met. There are extensive enforcement provisions provided for in Part VIII of the Act, with a view to ensuring that works pertaining to permitted...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Planning statistics are compiled by each planning authority on an annual basis for collation and publication on my Department’s website, and are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/service/9e4ee-get-planning-statistics/. The data collected relates to the total number of applications and decisions for all developments that require planning permission, broken down by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) has been identified as a key measure to address the different housing needs in Ireland and methods to support the development of MMC in Ireland are set out in Housing for All. MMC is the term used to describe a range of manufacturing and innovative construction alternatives to traditional construction, including modular construction. MMC has the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The management and control of social housing are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Cork City Council have informed my Department that feasibility for the redevelopment of the Noonan Road site is at an early stage. My Department currently funds multi-year programs of large-scale regeneration projects, including projects in Cork City....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Croí Cónaithe (Cities) Scheme is a viability measure designed to support the building of apartments for sale to owner-occupiers that would otherwise not be built, providing a greater range of tenure in our urban centres. To date, two calls for expressions of interest have been undertaken. Five contracts have been signed for the delivery of 582 units in total – 210 in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government has recently approved an increase in the mandatory retirement age for certain members of the uniformed services. Following this, my Department has commenced a review to explore a similar extension to the mandatory retirement age for all firefighters with a view to providing consistency in the uniformed services. Any such change will require a legislative amendment to be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Road Projects (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The objective of the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is to provide public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical infrastructure blockages which were frustrating the delivery of housing. This is enabling the accelerated delivery of housing on key development sites in Dublin and in urban areas of high demand. LIHAF was designed to specifically address the issue of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The 2021 Review of the Mortgage to Rent Scheme was published by my Department on 24 January 2022 and is available on my Department's website. Since the publication of this Review, from Quarter 1 of 2022 to the end of Quarter 1 of 2024, a total of 767 Mortgage to Rent applications have been completed. A further 367 applications are being progressed currently. Both the Programme for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Local Government Act 2019 (the Act) was enacted on 31 January 2019 to provide for the transfer of part of the administrative area of Cork County Council to the administrative area of Cork City, and this took place when the new Councils took office after the local elections in late May 2019. Financial responsibility did not transfer to Cork City Council until 1 January 2020 for budgeting...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill was approved by Government on 24 October 2023 to provide for a tenant’s ‘first right of refusal’, where a landlord intends to sell a rented dwelling. The Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage undertook Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (PLS) of the General Scheme in December 2023 and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All is providing prospective home-owners with housing options they didn’t have when the plan was published two years ago. These options include Government supports for first-time buyers such as the Local Authority Home Loan, Ready-to-build and the First Home shared equity scheme, all of which are assisting those aspiring to purchase their own home to do so. In this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Planning statistics are compiled by each planning authority on an annual basis for collation and publication on my Department’s website. The information requested on the total number of applications and refusals by counties in each of the past three years in both outline permission and planning permission for the period up to and including 2022 is included in the statistics available...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) are forms of social housing support, provided by my Department, for people who have a long-term housing need. In order for a household to qualify for HAP, they must first be assessed as eligible for social housing support by their local authority. Any household assessed as eligible for social housing is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Home ownership and affordability are a key priority for Government which has targeted the delivery of 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency and via the First Home scheme, a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. It is anticipated that 36,000 of these homes will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority area. This data is available to the end of 2023 and is published on the statistics' page of my Department’s website at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The figures provided in reply to Parliamentary Question no. 656 of 20 March 2024 account for all properties secured under Leasing that are supported under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP). Of the total figure of 12,398 properties supported by SHCEP at the end of Q3 2023, 3,911 properties are secured under payment and availability agreements. SHCEP, in addition to...