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Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: First, I will take on board the comments in respect of the place finder service. However, I note HAP has not been rolled out in the Dublin City Council area yet. It is a specific homeless HAP pilot project, which is a different, albeit highly important, scheme because it has found sustainable tenancies for many people. The entire point of HAP is to take people out of the type of...

Other Questions: Irish Water Funding (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 18 and 30 together. We finally got to one on Irish Water. Irish Water's capital investment in the period 2017 to 2021 will be funded by a mix of debt and equity, including capital transfers from Government. This investment programme for the period 2017 to 2021 will be subject to review by the Commission for Energy Regulation, CER, and Government funding will...

Other Questions: Irish Water Funding (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: It is not possible to give an exact commitment until we know what the funding model will be. I am sure that will result in a lot of political debate between now and next March or April when the Oireachtas votes on it. We are committed to the business plan that Irish Water has put in place and is implementing. What Irish Water has done on conservation of water by fixing leaks has...

Other Questions: Irish Water Funding (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am tempted not to get into the water charges debate here around ring-fencing adequate funding. If we are not careful, we will get into the realm of funding for medium-term and long-term water projects having to compete with immediate spending commitments that we must decide year after year on budgets. That is the whole point of having a sustainable funding model for what we need here. ...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: All three of the current expenditure funded schemes – the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, the housing assistance payment, HAP, and the social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, are critical components to the accelerated delivery of social housing envisaged under Rebuilding Ireland - an Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness. It is anticipated that more than 111,000...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The SHCEP-----

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Unfortunately, the reality is that we cannot do everything together. Not even the Deputy could deliver all the social houses within the timeframe that he seems to think is possible. The reality is that we have huge pressure on the system and there is no one silver bullet. What we need to do is to put sustainable, long-term tenancies in place where we can. We need to put long-term leasing...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The truth is that it is a combination of both. Some people do not have any issue with being in long-term tenancies.

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy has this ideological perspective that the State has to control all this land and property. We are going to increase significantly the State's stock of social housing and we will build that increased stock as quickly as we can. We have funding in place of more than €5 billion for the next five years to do that. On top of that, we want to learn lessons from the past, to put...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy will see all the costings and details in the budget next week; they will all be published next week

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: All local authorities already have targets for social housing delivery out to 2017. At present, my Department is liaising with local authorities in relation to increasing social housing targets and accelerating social housing delivery over the coming years. Having regard to the Social Housing Assessment 2016 and reflecting the increased targets and significantly increased budget of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 21, 23, 27 and 70 together. Of the 47,000 social housing units to be delivered under Rebuilding Ireland, an Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, it is estimated at this stage that approximately 26,000 will be constructed, including 1,500 rapid-build homes, primarily in the Dublin region. I envisage that there will be more than 320 homes either complete...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 22, 51 and 68 together. The solution to the challenge of homelessness is to increase the supply of homes as envisioned under Rebuilding Ireland: An Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness. The Action Plan, published on 19 July 2016, aims to deliver 47,000 units of social housing over the period to 2021 through construction, refurbishment, acquisitions and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Following the launch in late 2014 of the Social Housing Strategy 2020, announcements in respect of a substantial new set of social housing projects were made in May 2015, July 2015 and January 2016. Between these three announcements, details of which are available on my Department’s website, almost €680 million has been allocated for over 3,900 social housing new builds,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 25 and 55 together. In December 2013, my Department published proposed draft revisions to the noise, setback distance and shadow flicker aspects of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. These draft revisions proposed: - the setting of a more stringent day- and night-time noise limit of 40 decibels for future wind energy developments, - a mandatory...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Of the 47,000 social housing units to be delivered under Rebuilding Ireland, an Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness,approximately 26,000 will be constructed, while 11,000 will be acquired by local authorities and approved housing bodies directly from the market or the Housing Agency, with a portion of these being newly built units. 10,000 units will be leased by local authorities and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the landlord-tenant relationship in the private rented residential sector and sets out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants. Section 3(2)(f) of the Act provides that it does not apply to a dwelling let for the purpose of a holiday. I have no function in the prohibition of advertisements on a company’s website. While, to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Estates (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, provides that, as soon as possible following a request by the developer or by the majority of the house owners, a planning authority must initiate procedures to take in charge a residential housing estate completed to its satisfaction in accordance with the planning permission. Section 180 also provides that, following a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: All local authority areas already have targets in respect of social housing delivery out to 2017 arising from the Social Housing Strategy 2020; those delivery targets have involved a combination of building, purchase and leasing schemes and good progress has been made to date on these, in particular in kick-starting a new pipeline of local authority and approved housing body construction...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 33 and 48 together. The agreed Programme for a Partnership Governmentrecognises the potential role that credit unions can play in housing finance and supports the efforts of the Registrar of Credit Unions at the Central Bank to gradually lift current lending restrictions as appropriate, including for housing. The Programme further provides that we will...