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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department supports local authorities and approved housing bodies to acquire new social homes through the Part V mechanism through the provision of capital assistance under the Social Housing Capital Investment Programme, Capital Advance Leasing Facility and also through the long-term leasing of properties under the Social Housing Current Expenditure programme. As such,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: All of the housing statistics collected by my Department on an annual basis can be accessed on the  Department's website at the following link: . My Department does not collect the statistical information sought by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites Data (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not maintain a list of officially listed derelict sites, as referred to in the Question. The Derelict Sites Act 1990 imposes a general duty on every owner and occupier of land to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the land does not become or continue to be a derelict site. It also imposes a duty on local authorities to take all reasonable steps (including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Meteorological Services (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In common with many other European Meteorological Services, Met Éireann does not categorise storms by level of severity. According to protocols adopted by the National Hurricane Centre in Florida and used by Met Éireann, Ophelia was an 'extra tropical cyclone' when it made landfall over Ireland.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 425 to 428, inclusive, together. The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) supports the delivery of social housing by providing financial support to local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for the leasing of houses and apartments. There properties are either privately owned or owned by AHBs. Properties made available under the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has devolved the administration of subsidy payments to Group Water Schemes to the local authorities, that being Kerry County Council in the case of the scheme in question. It is my understanding from enquiries made to Kerry County Council that an application by the scheme for subsidy payment is currently being examined and will be dealt with by the Council as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority. Commercial rates form an important...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Review (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters Regulations 2014 give legal effect in Ireland to the Nitrates Directive and to our Nitrates Action Programme (NAP). The objective of the Regulations is to protect groundwater and surface waters, including drinking water sources, primarily through the management of livestock manures and other fertilisers. Ireland has obligations...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens Assembly (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The issue of the right to housing was debated in Dáil Eireann and Seanad Eireann recently. Arising from this, a motion to refer the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, which dealt with economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to housing, to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach was passed by the Dáil on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme administered by my Department, plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals. There are currently more than 28,500 households having their housing needs met via HAP and some 20,000 landlords or agents currently in receipt of HAP payments. A weekly average of 350 HAP tenancies have been set-up during 2017. HAP is a form of social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authority house purchase loan finance continues to be made available to first time buyers only, for the acquisition of houses or for the construction of new houses. The Housing (Home Choice Loan) Regulations 2009 which underpin the Home Choice Loan scheme are clear in this regard. I have no plans, at this time, to alter the Regulations in respect of their application to first time...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Emergency Plan (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is designated as the Lead Government Department for coordinating the response to severe weather emergencies. My Department’s National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management (NDFEM) is mandated by the Secretary General to decide if and when to convene a National Emergency Coordination Group (NECG) on behalf of my Department and the National Director, or his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The new Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme for existing local authority houses 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 €15,000 per annum, have been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Student Accommodation (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has implemented several measures to assist the increase in delivery of student accommodation projects under the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016, including fast-tracking planning applications to An Bord Pleanála for student accommodation projects of 200+ bed spaces, and facilitating low-cost funding availability from the Housing Finance...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government recognises the ongoing rates of homeless presentation, which are essentially a result of a shortage of housing supply in both the social and private rented sectors. It is for this reason that the overarching objective of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessnessis to increase the supply of new homes, across all forms of housing, to 25,000 per annum by...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I will speak to each individual amendment if I may and then I will answer some of the questions that were raised. In regard to amendment No. 13, the review to be carried out by the regulator will assess the rate of demand for water services in dwellings over a 12-month period. We can expect that usage over a 24-month period will be twice the annual usage so 12 months is being set down as a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 8 refers a number of times to dwellings in which the number of residents "exceeds 4". Essentially it does not matter what the average household number is. Deputy Barry Cowen explained it quite well. The provision will mean that any household with more than four people will be able to apply for an additional allowance, per person, above four, but where there are four people, the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: It is based on the total number of households assessed. That will give us the figure for a four-person household. That is what the data have shown us to date. If one divides consumption levels by the number of households, it will result in a figure – the average use, as we are determining it – that will cover four persons in a household based on the cubic meters of water...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Is the figure of 2.6 or 2.7 not the CSO figure for the average size of a household in the country today?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Because it came back with an average household usage figure of 127 cu. m per household per year. In the same data it is indicated that it covers roughly in the region of four occupants. It is actually a little higher – 133 cu. m per household per year. The figure is 55 cu. m for one occupant, 93 cu. m for two occupants, 114 cu. m for three and 133 cu. m for four. That is what we...