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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Renewable Energy Projects (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 the relevant local planning authority with a right of appeal to An Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 introduced a new measure, the vacant site levy, which is aimed at incentivising the development of vacant, under-utilised sites in urban areas.  Under the Act, planning authorities are required to establish a register of vacant sites in their areas, beginning on 1 January 2017, and to issue annual notices to owners of vacant sites by 1 June...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Refunds (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services was published on 12 April 2017 and approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Committee recommended that in respect of the most cost efficient mechanism of adhering to the principle of equity of treatment for those who have paid and have not paid water charges, such households should be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The application by the Marine Institute to develop a 1/4 scale ocean energy test device site off the coast of Spiddal in Galway Bay was made on the basis of this site being necessary to support the attainment by Ireland of the required EU targets for renewable energy for 2020, 2030 and 2050. Ireland’s Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (OREDP) published in 2014, which was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 provides the statutory framework for the Pyrite Remediation Scheme.  The Pyrite Resolution Board, with the support of the Housing Agency, is responsible for the implementation of the pyrite remediation scheme.  In accordance with the provisions of the Act, the Board is independent in the performance of its functions, and as Minister, I have no...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The development contribution rebate scheme featured as part of the Government's housing package, entitled "Stabilising Rents, Boosting Supply", which was announced by the previous Government in November 2015. The primary objective of the scheme was to enhance the viability of the construction and sale of residential housing units at affordable prices in the locations of greatest need....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Pillar 5 of the Government's Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is specifically focused on Utilising Existing Housing Stock, with a key objective of ensuring that the existing vacant housing stock throughout the country and across all forms of tenure, in both the public and private sectors, is used to the optimum degree possible. In this regard, Action 5.1 of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock is a matter for each individual local authority, as the statutory housing authority for its area. Responsibilities are also set by the local authorities, as landlords, for tenants of social housing which are normally set out in tenants' handbooks. The Government’s Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, prescribe maximum net income limits for each housing authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band were based on an assessment of the income needed to provide for a household's basic...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas library, brought into operation a grant scheme to assist with the cost of remediation of septic tanks and domestic waste water treatment systems which are deemed, following inspection under the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Inspection Plan, to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the tenant-landlord relationship in the private rented residential sector.  Sections 12 and 16 of the Act state that a landlord shall return or repay promptly any deposit paid by the tenant to the landlord on entering into the agreement for the tenancy or lease, unless there is a default in the payment of rent or any other charges or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Summer Economic Statement 2017published by the Departments of Finance and of Public Expenditure and Reform refers (at page 21), in the context of preparations for Budget 2018, to the need to provide a further €0.33 billion to meet capital commitments in respect of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness 2016.This additional funding for housing programmes is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1622 and 1623 together. Irish Water has set out its Capital Investment Plan up to the year 2021 in its Business Plan. In December 2016, the CER made a decision on the second regulatory period 2017-2018 setting allowed revenue for this period, including proposals on operational and capital budgets. A copy of the CER's decision is available on its website,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment and delivery of the accommodation needs of Travellers through the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas.  My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Question No. 234 of 30 May 2017, which provided details on housing expenditure in 2016 and the allocation for housing programmes in 2017 in relation to both capital and current programmes.  The further details requested in respect of capital housing programmes in 2016 and for 2017, are provided in the following table. Capital Housing Programmes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Statements (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In the reply to Question Number 198 of 8 November 2016, it was indicated that, following a search of the foreshore records, my Department had not been able to locate the environmental assessment reports requested in respect of the granting of the 2006 lease and that further enquires to include the Departments who held responsibility for the foreshore function at the time of the original...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: With effect from 1 January 2014, Irish Water is responsible for public water services. The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides that Irish Water shall collect charges from its customers in receipt of water services provided by it. The Act also provides that responsibility for the independent economic regulation of the water sector is assigned to the Commission for Energy Regulation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s new Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2016-2018 includes funding for new group water schemes, through Measure 3. This measure supports social and economic development in rural towns and villages and their hinterlands by providing new group water schemes where public water supply schemes or private wells are not an option. Local authorities were invited in January 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1629 and 1643 together. My Department has developed a standard set of procedures that are followed during the application for a lease or licence and the subsequent assessment of that application.  1. Pre-application Stage The first stage is called the pre-application stage. This is an informal stage during which officials of my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I, as Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, have responsibility for regulating the use of the foreshore in Ireland in accordance with both the Foreshore Act 1933, as amended, and any applicable European environmental legislation, including the EIA and Birds and Habitats Directives. During the course of assessing an application for a foreshore lease or licence a...