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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Data (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not hold or collate the data referred to by the Deputy in relation to the number of persons registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) on a county basis. The Clerk of the Dáil has requested that arrangements be put in place to facilitate the provision of information by State Bodies to members of the Oireachtas. Following the issue of Circular LG...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, set out a series of measures to be introduced to ensure the quality of private rental accommodation by strengthening the applicable standards and improving the inspection and enforcement systems. On 1 July 2017, updated regulatory standards, the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017, came into...

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

Eoghan Murphy: As Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with special responsibility for Brexit, Minister Coveney has responsibility for co-ordinating the whole-of-Government response to Brexit. In this capacity, he is working closely with his colleagues across Government to address the many challenges resulting from Brexit. This co-operation also involves the relevant State Agencies. Work at Cabinet...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Training (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The cost to my Department in providing external coaching and or training services for the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017 is set out in the table. The providers of these courses comprise a wide range of educational institutes including but not limited to: - Universities – TCD, UCD, DCU, UCC, NUIM, NUIG, UL. - Other third level institutions: NCI, DIT, CMIT, IT...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I have consistently indicated that the current level of homelessness is unacceptable and that it is essential that we continue to make every possible effort to address this. Nevertheless, in order to ensure that we are designing and implementing policy supports that are compassionate and effective, and in order to get a better understanding of which responses are working and which are not,...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The information sought in respect of the funding provided over the period 2007 to 2017 is set out in the table.  The figures encompass funding for the provision of social housing by local authorities and approved housing bodies, including land costs, and also the funding provided for the full range of stock improvement, energy efficiency, adaptation and regeneration works carried out...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the Domain Names registered to or owned by my Department or through a third party company are set out in the Table.  Domain Name activecitizen.ie activecitizenship.ie consultations.environ.ie electoralcommission.ie electoral-commission.ie Firesafetyweek.ie hap.ie ireland2040.ie irishmeteorologicalservice.com irishmeteorologicalservice.eu...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Budget 2018 has increased the Exchequer funding for the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme by €149m to €301 million. This will allow for the continued support of existing HAP households at end 2017 and also enable the additional 17,000 households targeted under Rebuilding Ireland to be supported by HAP in 2018, as well as supporting the roll-out of the HAP Place Finder...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The overall aim of the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is to increase housing supply by removing infrastructural obstacles that were preventing the early development of key sites. All proposals for funding under LIHAF were assessed in line with the criteria set out in the Call for Proposals (Circular PL 10/2016) which issued on 26 August 2016 which was further...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate housing support that is now available to all eligible households throughout the State. Budget 2018 has increased the Exchequer funding for the HAP scheme by €149m to €301 million in order to meet the continuing costs of existing households and the costs of meeting the additional 17,000 households, targeted under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 625 and 626 together. The Water Services Act 2017 (No. 29 of 2017), which was enacted on 17 November 2017, reflects the recommendations of the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, which was published in April 2017 and approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Act provides for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Expenditure (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals. There are currently more than 29,800 households having their housing needs met via HAP and over 20,000 landlords and agents in receipt of HAP payments. A weekly average of  348 HAP tenancies have been set up during 2017, and more than 420 a week averaged over the last 5...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Parliamentary Questions Costs (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The processing of individual Parliamentary Questions is undertaken as part of the normal day to day work of individual Sections within my Department and no staff in my Department are assigned full time to dealing with Parliamentary Questions.  The number and level of staff, and the time spent on individual replies, depends on the complexity and urgency of the issues raised, the ease of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The process of Agrément certification applies to those products and processes which do not fall within the scope of existing construction standards, either because they are innovative or because they deviate from established norms. The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) Agrément assesses, specifies testing, and where appropriate, issues Agrément certificates...

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

Eoghan Murphy: There is no provision in the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 to fund a party's legal costs in a judicial review. However, Part 2 of the Act makes an exception to the general rule that costs follow the event, by providing in section 3 that, in general and regardless of the outcome of proceedings, all parties must pay their own costs in civil proceedings to which section 4 of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Section 261 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which introduced a once-off system of registration for most existing quarries, with the possibility of follow-up action in relation to an individual quarry by the planning authority concerned, came into operation on 28 April 2004. Subsection (8) of section 261, as amended, provides for the making of a compensation claim...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (21 Nov 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...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness was published in July 2016 and after one year of implementation, it was important to review overall progress and impact. The housing activity reports, available on , show that the strong supply-side measures introduced under Rebuilding Ireland are beginning to have a positive impact and all output...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Through the supports made available under Rebuilding Ireland, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects and through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments for social housing use, including through working with approved housing bodies. Details on the number of properties purchased and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (21 Nov 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 2018 in...