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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I met the members of An Bord Pleanála. New directors have been appointed very recently to the board. We are looking for additional funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not disagree with any of the Senator's remarks. Hubs are not an interim solution, they are the first response. They are meant to replace hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation. We do not see them as the second stage. We want people to go directly into hubs and that is why we currently have nine. We will have 15 hubs when the funding for the current programme is completed. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Nobody doubts the importance of this issue. The Dáil has been back for two weeks and this is the third engagement I will have had on the issue. I will have my fourth later today in the Seanad. The Government was discussing this issue until the end of July while the Cabinet was still meeting. The Cabinet met again at the beginning of September. The Deputy knows that Deputies are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy also said that happened while everyone was on their holidays, which gives the impression that politicians do not work over those months. That is not the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: If I had time for mindfulness, I would definitely take it. I have to be careful that people do not misrepresent me. I did not mean to get tetchy with the Senator, and perhaps there was some confusion over the language. The Deputy knows how people can jump on something and blow it up into something that is not correct. I have a duty of care here for the work that is being done in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy. I speak to the chief executive of Fingal County Council very frequently, so I will speak to him about it the next time we have an engagement, which will be shortly. I have not made a decision yet as to whether bedsits are coming back. On the issue of senior citizens complexes and conversions for disabilities and extensions for overcrowding, I have just announced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The funding is for both. On the issue of the recruitment embargo for local authorities, that has been lifted. Local authorities have to manage their own resources. I do not want to interfere in what they do. However, a large amount of work has been done on void conversions over the past number of years. That must have been done with the trained staff that they have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: That is outside my direct responsibility, but I can certainly raise it with the CEO.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The PPPs are to deliver 1,500 units in three phases. The first phase of 500 units is at procurement at the moment. The first units are scheduled for delivery in late 2018. The second phase will move to procurement shortly. The site for the third phase will be identified by the end of the year. We have to be very careful with how we proceed with PPPs because we do not want to be exposed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not mean to play politics at all. I do not think I have ever done so in this brief. If I did so with regard to the site mentioned by the Deputy, I apologise. Deputy Cowen is right when he says this is not a space for politics. This is the biggest challenge the Government is currently facing, notwithstanding the challenge of Brexit and other difficulties we have in our society. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I will explain my approach. We are talking about 2021 because we tend to deal in five-year time horizons. It is meant to be the parliamentary cycle. It is probably part of the human condition. We can understand five-year periods. Of course we have ring-fenced the capital funding until 2021. We have to look beyond 2021. That is what we are doing at the moment. We have to approach this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes, I can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The provision of fire services in local authority areas, including the establishment and maintenance of fire brigades, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of premises, is a statutory function of the individual fire authorities under the provisions of the Fire Services Act 1981. My Department supports the fire authorities through setting general policy, providing a central...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The fee payable for a planning application for the provision or retention of an agricultural buildings, other than an agricultural structure exempted from the requirement to obtain planning permission under section 4 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, or Articles 6 to 9 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, is set out in Class 3 of Part 2 of Schedule...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to Question Nos. 278 and 280 of 28 September 2017. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Data (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are by law (Section 63(1) of the Local Government Act 2001) independent in the performance of their functions. The operation of the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme is a matter for the local authority concerned, in line with legislation, including the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015. The new Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: As part of the response to the commitment contained in Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness that commercial hotels and B&B's should only be used as emergency accommodation for homeless families in limited circumstances, housing authorities are delivering a number of family-focused, supported temporary accommodation facilities, also referred to as Family...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Dublin City Council has advised that they have a policy in place since 2013 of amalgamating existing 2 bedsit units (26m2) into more substantial one bed units. This policy has been supported by both the Council and my Department. Over 300 units have now been amalgamated giving a much improved living environment for the residents concerned. In order to carry out these amalgamations, it...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The allocation of social housing support is a matter for the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations. Section 22 of the Act requires all housing authorities, as a reserved function, to make an allocation scheme determining the order of priority to be accorded in the allocation of dwellings to households...