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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: At the end of 2021, 100,077 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were 61,907 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 33,400 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by the scheme. Each local authority has statutory discretion to agree to a HAP payment up to 20% above the prescribed maximum rent limit to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Local Authority Home Loan is a Government backed mortgage for those on modest or low incomes who cannot get sufficient funding from commercial banks to purchase or build a home. It has been available nationwide from local authorities since 4 January 2022 for first-time buyers and fresh start applicants. The loan can be used both for new and second-hand properties, or to self-build. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not maintain a central register of heritage ships or boats owned by local authorities and I, as Minister have no function in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Affordable Housing Act 2021 lays the foundations for two affordable purchase schemes - Part 2 of the Act details the provisions for the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme and Part 4 of the Act provides for the Minister to establish the First Home Scheme. The Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme will see new homes made available by the Local Authority for affordable purchase....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Programme for Government provides for a package of social housing reforms, including a social housing passport to allow households move from one local authority waiting list to another. As per my reply to Question No. 531 of 19 January 2022, there is already a degree of flexibility regarding waiting lists. The four Dublin local authorities have arrangements allowing social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fuel Poverty (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: This technology is consistent with the Government’s Climate Action Plan, and the Programme for Government which supports the ambitious plan to deliver 70% of Ireland’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030. It also supports the work of my Department and other Government agencies and Departments who are focused on helping to address fuel poverty. I understand this technology...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 (as amended) provide that households may apply for support to one local authority only. Usually, this will be the local authority for the area in which the household normally resides or with which the household has a local connection. Local authorities may also, at their discretion, assess households with no link to the area for support. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 195 and 196 together. My Department does not collate data of the type referred to in the Question.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (4 May 2022)

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 next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes by 2030. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12 billion in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5 billion in funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Under the Government's Housing for All strategy, 10,000 Cost Rental homes will be delivered from 2021 to 2026 by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), Local Authorities and the Land Development Agency (LDA).  A Housing Delivery Action Plan prepared by each Local Authority will underpin Local Authority delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental homes to 2026. This includes any Local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 199 and 200 together. The Programme for Government commits to ensuring that Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) levels are adequate to support vulnerable households, while we increase the supply of social housing. Maximum rent limits for HAP were set for each housing authority area in 2016, in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection (DSP). In...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity, including details by individual local authority. This data is available to the end of 2021, and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-hou sing-provision/  My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Housing for All Strategy delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to step up housing supply and put affordability at the heart of the housing system, with an ambitious target of 300,000 homes over the next decade for social, affordable and cost rental, private rental and private ownership housing. 54,000 affordable home interventions will be delivered between now and 2030 to be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The advancement of social housing on sites owned by Kildare County Council is a matter in the first place for the Council; it is a matter for the Council to determine what housing delivery is initiated, including the nature, scale and timing of the housing. At the request of Kildare County Council, my Department has recently confirmed funding approval for the Council to work with Cluid...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The First Home Scheme will support eligible applicants to purchase new homes in the private market through an equity share model, similar to that used in the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme. The Scheme will be restricted to new homes within regional price ceilings, in order for resources to be generally targeted at supporting purchases in the lower region (sub-median) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I refer to the reply to Question No. 343 of 22 March 2022. The position has not changed.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 208 and 209 together. Since 2013, Exchequer funding has been provided through my Department's Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme (EERP) to support local authorities with the retrofit of local authority owned homes requiring insulation and energy upgrade works. Since the programme commenced in 2013 over 75,000 homes have been retrofitted with a total...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: There have been no secondments from my Department to the university third level sector in the past two years. My Department is guided by the advice issued to all Government Departments by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to secondments which is available at the following link - hr.per.gov.ie/en/corporate-pages/career/mobility/secondment/ . 

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Programme for Government sets out a number of commitments in respect of the important policy area of addressing building defects. It commits to an examination of defects in housing, having regard to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing’s report "Safe as Houses?". Housing for All, the Government’s national plan on housing to 2030,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: While my Department is not paying any fine for failing to transpose EU directives at the moment, I can provide details of fines paid for the Derrybrien case (C-261/18). It is important to note that these fines were not paid for ‘non-transposition’ of an EU Directive, as the Derrybrien judgment related to the specific non-compliance of the Derrybrien wind farm with the EIA...