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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The normal legislative provisions of the Residential Tenancies Acts governing rent setting, rent reviews and notices of changed rents for private rented tenancies, do not apply to Approved Housing Body (AHB) tenancies.  Instead,  these matters are governed by the tenancy agreements, leases or financing arrangements in place. Where social housing units are provided by AHBs under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides capital funding to Local Authorities to undertake adaptations and extensions to their existing social housing stock. The scheme supports local authorities to provide extensions needed to address over-crowding and can be hugely beneficial to the families concerned, while also alleviating the need for new social housing units to be provided.  In...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand the body referred to in the Deputy's question is the Building Regulations Advisory Body (BRAB). Section 14 of the Building Control Act 1990 provides for the establishment, at the Minister's discretion, of a BRAB to advise the Minister on matters relating to building regulations. The term of office of the last BRAB expired on 1 October 2012.  The members of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness includes a clear intent to increase the level and speed of delivery of social housing, as part of the Government’s approach to addressing the current challenges in the housing sector.  The target to deliver 47,000 social housing units through build, refurbishment, acquisition and leasing over the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Building Control Acts 1990 to 2014, primary responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the Building Regulations rests with the owners, designers and builders of buildings. Enforcement of the Building Regulations is a matter for the 31 local building control authorities who have extensive powers of inspection...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 469 and 471 together. My Department does not have any input into the content or views contained within submissions provided by the prescribed bodies as part of the foreshore consultation process and as such is not privy as to how such content was arrived at within the internal structures of these bodies. Any question related to the content of the responses...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Met Éireann's observation network is operated according to World Meteorological Organisation guidelines which, inter alia, recommend minimum distances between developments and observing sites. Applying these criteria, there are no observing sites which might be affected by the proposed development and this is reflected in Met Éireann's response on the foreshore...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Brexit Documents (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Following on from publication of the document setting out the Government's approach to the Brexit negotiations, work is underway across Departments to prepare adaptive Sectorial Brexit Response Plans to mitigate emerging sectorial challenges. These plans will build on ongoing cross-Government research, analysis and consultations with stakeholders and will encompass the following themes:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 473 and 487 together. The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016.  The Scheme is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme.  To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable income of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The compilation of the Marine Licence Vetting Committee (MLVC) Report which is a key element of the foreshore decision-making process was completed on 6 July 2017. I expect the application in question to be submitted for a decision in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2009, gives legislative recognition to rental accommodation availability agreements which underpin the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) as a form of social housing support. Consequently, since 1 April 2011, RAS  tenants are now considered to be in receipt of social housing support and should not generally remain on housing waiting lists...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: A specific and targeted service for homeless households, who can benefit from the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme has been available across the four housing authorities in the Dublin Region since February 2015, and is being implemented by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE). The focus is on transitioning qualified households from emergency accommodation into private...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness emphasises the need to look at new ways of funding social housing delivery, in particular the need to provide structural, funding and policy supports to increase delivery of social housing by Approved Housing Bodies. In that context, it states that support will be provided to an Irish Council for Social Housing/sector-led new...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I am not aware of any specific blockages and issues that are affecting the rapid build housing schemes. There have been significant discussions with local authorities to ramp-up rapid build delivery, which local authorities have been responding to positively and are working hard to ensure that each project is completed and occupied by tenants at the earliest possible date.  While...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Student Accommodation (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: A number of measures, many of which come under Pillar 4 of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan For Housing and Homelessness, are being progressed to support greater provision of student accommodation, and thereby also increasing the availability of dwellings within the general rental market, particularly in our cities and large towns. Based on construction activity figures compiled...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: As stated previously, and as is the case with the large majority of development types, there are no specific planning guidelines in place in respect of solar farms. Proposals for individual solar farm developments are subject to the statutory requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, in the same manner as other proposed developments. Planning applications are made to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government recognises the housing affordability pressures faced by households, particularly in certain parts of the country. It is for this reason that the overarching objective of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is to increase the supply of new homes to 25,000 units per annum. In particular, the aim is to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector did not specifically consider a town centre renewal initiative.  However, the Programme for a Partnership Government, published in May 2016, set out the ambitious priority attached to urban regeneration by the Government, incorporating a series of specific actions aimed at facilitating the regeneration of our urban centres. The Government’s...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published by my Department in December 2016, committed to the establishment of a working group in early 2017 to examine and report on the tax treatment of landlords (or rental accommodation providers), and to put forward options, where appropriate, for amendments to such treatment. This working group was set up in January 2017, is chaired by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (12 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, noted that the Programme for a Partnership Government contains a commitment to develop a "cost rental" option, taking account of work already completed in this area, including by the National Economic and Social Council and others. In line with this commitment, Action 12 of the Strategy commits my Department to...