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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: As the question has been asked, I would like to answer it, if the Chair agrees. One of the most important assets that Irish Water has is its staff, the people who transferred to that organisation to do the very important work that needs to be done up and down the country. Obviously, service level agreements were put in place. These originally went to 2025, not 2026. Irish Water has come...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I will respond to Deputy O'Dowd's point. I believe we have a duty of care to the staff in Irish Water who are public sector workers. I believe Members of the Dáil berate the organisation too casually, but in doing so berate the staff. We saw during Storm Ophelia how the staff of Irish Water stepped up to the plate in a very big way. In the Dáil when Deputies were responding to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Eligibility (16 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate housing support that is available to all eligible households throughout the State. Under the HAP scheme, eligible households source their own accommodation in the private rented sector, which best suits their needs in their area of choice.  To be eligible for HAP, a household must have been assessed for social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (16 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 253 and 254 together. I refer to my reply to Question No. 522 of 14 November 2017. While my Department does not hold this information in respect of local authority houses, central heating systems have been provided in all new local authority dwellings as a matter of course since 1994. In addition, the extensive central heating upgrade programme in social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (16 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 257 together. Nationally, funding of €1.9bn is available for social housing delivery in 2018. This is an increase of 46% over the funding of €1.3 billion available in 2017. There is no precise amount of capital funding notified to individual local authorities for the delivery of housing in a particular year. Authorities can...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gender Balance (16 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The information sought is provided in the following table. In the case of certain appointments to State Boards, statutory selection procedures must be followed or nominations must be sought from independent nominating panels before appointments are made by the Minister or the Government, as appropriate. In addition, in the case of a number of Boards, not all of the appointments to the body...

Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Property Services Regulatory Authority (Amendment) (Bidding Transparency) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Community Energy (Co-ownership) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2017: Leave to Introduce (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I move:That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2017:—Vote 5 — Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 12 — Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 17 — Public Appointments Service...

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2017: Referral to Select Committee (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I move:That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on 31st December, 2017, the Supplementary Estimates be referred to the following Select Committees, as appropriate, pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(c) and 182(3), which shall report back to the Dáil by no later than 6th December:—Vote 5 — Office...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 6th May, 2016, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister for Employment Affairs and Social...

European Defence Agency Projects: Referral to Select Committee (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects – (1) Joint Procurement Arrangement for EU SatCom Market and (2) European Centre for Manual Neutralisation Capabilities (ECMAN) pursuant to section 2 of the Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, be referred to the Select Committee on Foreign...

Standing Orders: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I move:That, in accordance with the recommendation under Standing Order 107(1)(a) of the sub-Committee on Dáil Reform, and with effect from Thursday 23rd November, 2017, Standing Order 71 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business be amended by the substitution of the following for paragraph (5):'(5) Where there is more than one division at the weekly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My predecessor as Minister, in conjunction with my colleague, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, announced an emerging "preferred draft approach" to the review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines in June 2017. A copy of the announcement is available on my Department’s website at the following link: As part of the overall review, a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 607 and 642 to 645, inclusive, together. Section 229 of the Local Government Act 2001(as amended) provides local authorities with the statutory authority to enter into a contract with any person in respect of any matter arising in relation to the functions of the local authority. This provision allows local authorities to enter into contracts with property...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tank Grants (21 Nov 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: Planning Issues (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 35 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, enables planning authorities to refuse - subject to certain limitations - planning applications by any person who has not previously complied with a planning permission, with conditions attached to a permission, or who has previously carried out unauthorised development. In the context of the Planning and Development...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: As the Deputy will be aware, the setting of social housing rents is a matter for each individual local authority. Section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, as amended, provided for the introduction of a national framework for social housing rents. Considerable work has been carried out by my Department in developing a draft framework for a harmonisation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 611, 627 and 629 together. The Government recognises the housing affordability pressures faced by households with low to moderate income, particularly in parts of the country where housing costs are highest. Therefore, housing affordability has been examined by my Department, in consultation with the Housing Agency, local...