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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing is delivered through a range of local authority and Approved Housing Body (AHB) delivery programmes. Capital expenditure on the delivery of new social homes is also supported by current funding provided through the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP). In respect of Affordable Housing delivery, Housing for All provides for a number of important affordability...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 20 February 2024, to qualify for a Local Authority Home Loan an applicant must currently have a legal right to reside and work in the State. As previously advised the Credit Policy requires that applicants from outside the EEA/EU must be legally resident in Ireland for a period of 5 years or have leave to remain extending to permit 5 years...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is the responsibility of each local authority to ensure appropriate supports are in place for elected members with disabilities, alongside a statutory responsibility to ensure practical and appropriate access to its buildings and services under the Disability Act of 2005. Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, along with the Public...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department provides funding to improve the quality, quantity and reliability of the water services relied upon by rural dwellers, where Uisce Éireann water services are not available. In relation to the group water scheme referred to I understand that funding has been approved to carry out water treatment improvements and that the relevant local authority continues to work with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The First Report on Relevant Public Lands which was published by the LDA in 2023 identified state owned land with potential for housing development in the five cities and five key growth centres. That potential identified is being assessed further in the light of ongoing developments on those sites. Suitable sites for housing development being recommended for transfer to the LDA will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 432, 428, 429 and 431 together. Funding provided by my Department to each local authority for the delivery of housing programmes in each of the years 2019 to 2022 is set out in the tables attached. The detailed breakdown of 2023 housing expenditure, by local authority and delivery stream, is being finalised within my Department and will be available in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 430 and 433 together. The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of fire station premises, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Service Acts, 1981 and 2003. My Department supports fire authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Local authorities, in their capacity as registration authorities, are responsible for the management and maintenance of the electoral register. My Department does not collect data on the age profile of the electoral register.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I answered that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----of what the Deputy is saying and that is not the case, as everyone knows.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. The review is addressing a number of key aspects of the Guidelines including noise, setback distance, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. My Department, in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department supports fire authorities by establishing policy, setting national standards for fire safety and fire service provision, providing a central training programme, issuing guidance on operational and other related matters and providing capital funding for priority infrastructural projects and the procurement of essential frontline fire appliances, ancillary vehicles and equipment....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not have a direct involvement in executive functions such as the procurement of contracts for the maintenance of public lighting, carried out by a local authority. Under Section 149 of the Local Government Act 2001, the Chief Executive of a local authority is responsible for the executive functions of the local authority, and for that purpose to manage and control...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I was informed that Westmeath County Council has recently been subject to a third-party payment fraud in the amount of approximately €515,000. I understand that as soon as the Council became aware of the matter it took all appropriate measures, including engaging with its insurer and specialist advisers. The issue is under investigation by An Garda Síochána and the Council...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On 7 December 2022 the Government approved the publication of the General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill (STTL Bill) and the priority drafting of the Bill which provides for the establishment of a new registration system for short-term lettings to be operated by Fáilte Ireland in line with the commitment under Housing for All - A New Housing Plan for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Exit packages are not something which have been paid to serving civil servants in my Department from 2016 to date. Any staff member who retired from my Department during this period received pensions and lump sum payments in line with the terms and conditions of the pensions schemes of which they were members.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (6 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I announced the opening of the Interim Remediation Scheme (Scheme) on 11 December 2023 for the funding of emergency fire safety defect works in apartments and duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013. The Scheme is being administered on my behalf by the Housing Agency on a nationwide basis and is open to applications from Apartment Owner Management Companies (OMCs) via the Housing...