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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: An examination of records held by my Department indicates that in 2016 a payment of €48,700 was made to the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) in respect of a Student Housing Project Manager in the context of Rebuilding Ireland and that in 2017 €45,000 was paid to USI to support a Homes for Study Campaign.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: At last September's Housing Summit, I emphasised the need for all housing authorities to have sufficient capacity in emergency accommodation and to have appropriate facilities in place for every person sleeping rough, on any night of the week. I also instructed the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, at that time, to set about ensuring the delivery of 200 additional permanent emergency beds by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not routinely collect data in relation to households in receipt of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) who are making additional payments to their landlord beyond that of their HAP payment. However, I am aware that some HAP recipients are making payments directly to their landlords, beyond the amount of HAP being paid on their behalf. There is no legislative provision...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 126 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, An Bord Pleanála has a statutory objective to determine normal planning appeals within 18 weeks of receipt of the appeal. Furthermore, under Section 37J of the Act, the Board has an objective to make a decision on applications for strategic infrastructure development within a period of 18 weeks, beginning on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Federation of Group Water Schemes (NFGWS) is the representative body for the Group Water Schemes (GWS) sector in Ireland. The primary role of the NFGWS is to represent the GWS sector nationally, including working closely with my Department to ensure that adequate and equitable capital and subsidy funding is in place to ensure the provision of high quality water to their domestic...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing First programme is a key housing support for those that are homeless and have complex needs. This includes rough sleepers, long-term users of emergency accommodation, young people exiting care, and those exiting institutions such as prisons and hospitals. Evidence in Ireland and internationally shows the Housing First approach to be an efficient and effective way to address...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 611, 627 and 629 of 21 November 2017 which sets out the position in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 522 and 523 together. As of 30 November 2017, a total of 339 Freedom of Information requests had been received this year by my Department. Of these requests, 173 were either fully or partially granted and 73 were refused. The remainder were either withdrawn, transferred to another FOI body or are as yet undecided. The table below provides details in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Standards (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 524, 530 and 531 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Following the commencement of the provisions in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014, the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is considered to be a social housing support and consequently households in receipt of a HAP payment are not eligible to remain on the main housing waiting list. However, acknowledging that households on the waiting list who avail of HAP might have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the following table.  In keeping with the quarterly return of housing statistics, the data covers the 15 month period from 1 July 2016 to 30 September 2017.  Data in respect of quarter 4, 2017 will be finalised early in the New Year. It should be noted that as my Department provides funding to projects as they advance, there...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Programme for Partnership Government includes a commitment to consider directly elected mayors in cities as part of a broader range of local government reform measures aimed at strengthening local democracy.  In response to this commitment, a policy discussion report on metropolitan governance for Ireland's cities is at an advanced stage of preparation. It...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has been providing strong funding support to all local authorities to undertake remediation work to vacant social housing units and to re-let such housing, as soon as possible. The Voids Programme, introduced by my Department in 2014, is aimed at minimising the turnaround and re-let time of vacant units and returning them to use in a very energy efficient...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to discuss with the select committee this afternoon my Department's proposed Supplementary Estimate for 2017. Today, I am accompanied by departmental officials Ms Mary Hurley, Mr. Maurice Coughlan, Ms Nina Murray, Ms Theresa Donohue and Ms Janet Jacobs. The committee will recall that during November, we discussed a Revised Estimate for my Department that did two...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the questions. First, I acknowledge that it is welcome to have the additional funding from central government in the Supplementary Estimate and that we are able to put it to productive use. Other Supplementary Estimates for other Departments cover pay issues, whereas through this Supplementary Estimate we are putting money into building, acquisitions, regeneration and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: It relates to social housing that we take back into stock. This is the first time we have actually singled it out as a funding line.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: No. My understanding is that is not the void programme. I will get clarity on that for the Deputy because this is the first time we have detailed this as a line item in the tables. In respect of the regeneration of units less than six years old, there will be approximately 30 in Cork and more than 100 in Limerick and strong delivery in Dublin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: We have a detailed note on exactly where we are going with the regeneration programme. It will give us an update on the past couple of years and then what we are looking at. I can provide that to the committee. That is no problem and it might be helpful.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: There is delivery under other subheads in schemes with housing bodies. That is the figure up to September of this year, so it will be additional to that. I am not in a position to give a detailed breakdown of the number above 4,000 today and I do not want to speculate about what it might be. In a few weeks I will be able to do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is not getting the figures for the actual units. I can see that is not in the table. Only the expenditure is there. We had a social housing supports target for 2017 under several headings in the tables that are traditionally published and that the Deputy will be familiar with. I will be able to give a definite figure under each when we get to the end of the year. They will...