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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Funding is provided through my Department's Rural Water Programme to the National Federation of Group Water Schemes to support their work within the group water sector. The funding provided to the Federation since its formation in 1998 is set out in the table hereunder. Following a routine internal audit in 2013 which highlighted the accumulation of cash surpluses by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s Rural Water Programme, prior to 2016, provided capital funding to group water schemes through a series of funding measures based on block grants. The block grants were made annually to local authorities who administer the programme on behalf of my Department. These block grants, enabling capital works to group water schemes, were made under the following measures of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Section 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992, housing authorities may provide assistance to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for the provision and management of housing accommodation. As Minister, I am empowered to grant approved status to housing bodies for this purpose. AHBs are independent, not-for-profit organisations, which can also include housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I can confirm that Clúid Housing Association have received approval from my Department under the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF) to acquire 13 homes at the site concerned.  I understand from the local authority that the units are currently undergoing refurbishment works, which are due to be finished early in 2018. Once these works are complete,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 695 and 696 together. Housing authorities submit reports to my Department on a monthly basis regarding the number of individuals utilising emergency accommodation arrangements that are funded by housing authorities; these official homeless reports are published on my Department's website and can be accessed using the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Communications (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In June of this year I received a copy of a press statement from the Government Press Office by email to my private email account, concerning the Taoiseach's visit to London to meet Prime Minister May to discuss, among other things, Brexit.  With the exception of the copying of that public communication, all official documentation in relation to Brexit is sent and received through...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested in respect of bodies under the aegis of my Department who have been allocated funding in excess of €1 million per annum from my Department in 2017 is set out in the following table. Name of Body/Organisation Estimated Funding in 2017 €m 50% funding from public sources - Yes/No An Bord Pleanála 16.1 Yes Housing and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Housing Act 1988 it is a matter for the housing authority concerned to determine whether a person is regarded as homeless; Section 2 of the Act sets out the requirements in this regard. Any person regarded as homeless may be placed into temporary emergency accommodation without the requirement to undergo a social housing assessment and be approved for social housing support; these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I am advised by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive that during the first six months of 2017 a total of 771 households entered Homeless HAP tenancies; of these, 519 were used to secure a tenancy prior to a homeless household entering emergency accommodation, and therefore are classified as preventative, with the remaining 252 therefore related to households exiting emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Based on housing authority reports, during the first six months of 2017 a total of 2,060 adults, who were assessed and deemed homeless by housing authorities within the meaning of Section 2 of the Housing Act 1988, exited homelessness into independent tenancies.  This figure includes homeless adults who exited Section 10 funded homeless accommodation and also homeless adults...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Resettlement Scheme (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government's Action Plan for Rural Development: Realising our Potential has a clear objective of working across Government Departments to deliver a co-ordinated group of strategies to ensure the success of vibrant rural communities across Ireland. My Department works closely with the Department of Rural and Community Development on rural housing issues. In relation to social housing,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) has been an important contributor to social housing supply since its introduction on a pilot basis in 2005. From its commencement in late 2005 to 31 September 2017, some 34,282 households have been transferred from Rent Supplement to RAS. The number of households in RAS constantly varies as contracts end, tenants move on to other properties,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Information returned to my Department indicates that there were 69 Part V social housing units delivered in 2016. Based on quarterly returns to the end of Quarter 2 of 2017, a provisional total of 200 social housing units were identified as having been delivered through Part V in the first half of this year.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 716 and 717 together. Applicants for local authority house purchase loans must be of good credit standing and have a satisfactory credit record.  The Housing Agency provides a central credit assessment service to local authorities and credit checks are undertaken as part of the credit assessment process.  The final decision on loan...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I have no proposals to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, to classify quarries as strategic infrastructural developments.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government has set out an ambitious set of targets for the delivery of social housing to the period to 2021 in its Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan. A commitment to deliver 50,000 new social housing homes through a range of delivery mechanisms is being supported by a multi-annual Exchequer commitment totalling €6.5 billion over the period of the plan. These targets will be achieved...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each housing authority area are provided in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments. The most recent figures available are the results of the 2016 Summary which are available on my Department’s website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/publications/files/su...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Social housing stock can become vacant due to various circumstances as would be expected, and, in the normal course, social homes will be re-let by local authorities, after appropriate repairs are carried out.  All local authorities have been requested to achieve the most efficient turnaround of their vacant social housing stock between lettings through more ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Gross motor tax receipts for each licensing authority from January 2011 to the end of October 2017 are set out in the following tables.  The online receipts figures include vehicle licences and arrears. Motor tax office receipts figures incorporate vehicle licences, arrears, miscellaneous receipts, trade plates, and goods vehicles trailer licences. 2017 – January to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Fund (28 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: As provided for in the Water Services Act 2017, from 2018 onward all State funding to Irish Water will be channelled through my Department’s Vote. In order to facilitate the change in funding sources the provisions of the Act facilitate the payment of motor tax receipts into the Exchequer, rather than the Local Government Fund (LGF), and the direct payment of local property tax...