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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply Leakages (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: With effect from 1 January 2014, Irish Water is responsible for delivering public water services. Irish Water is also responsible for water services infrastructure including water supply pipes or drainage pipes extending from a waterworks or wastewater works to the curtilage of a private property. Under sections 43 and 54 of the Water Services Act 2007, responsibility for maintenance and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In late 2017, my Department conducted a review of group water schemes' subsidies. The review involved discussions with the National Federation of Group Water Schemes, the representative body of the group water sector.  Discussions concluded in December when I approved the revised subsidy levels.  The new subsidy arrangements, endorsed by a special delegate conference...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1711 to 1713, inclusive, together. Details of determination orders, dispute processing times, appeals and requests for enforcement to the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) over the past five years, are not held by my Department. Each year, the RTB publishes information on its activities in its annual report, including disputes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has ongoing engagement with all the local authorities regarding the delivery of social housing through all funding streams.  This includes quarterly meetings of the technical staff, of both my Department and the local authorities, to review progress on all projects. These engagements can also involve site visits to review project activity at first hand. These quarterly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes data on a monthly basis regarding the number of homeless persons accommodated in all forms of emergency accommodation funded and overseen by housing authorities.  These reports are based on data provided by housing authorities and are produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS), the single integrated national data information system...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Applications (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Substitute consent is essentially a form of retrospective development consent for development requiring environmental impact assessment (EIA), screening for EIA or appropriate assessment (AA). The substitute consent procedure is set out in Part XA of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) and related provisions specifically for quarries are set out in section 261A of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Through the supports made available from my Department, 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 built and purchased...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Statistics in relation to the social housing stock of local authorities are gathered by the National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC), in their annual reports on Performance Indicators in Local Authorities. These reports provide a range of information in relation to social housing stock, including the total number of dwellings in each local authority area. The most recent NOAC...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. Payment arrangements, including arrangements where overpayments occur, are an operational matter for Irish Water, subject to the policy approved by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. I understand that Irish Water...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has a wide and diverse business agenda. Each year, in order to support delivery on this agenda, my Department allocates significant resources to a broad range of organisations, including local authorities, dedicated agencies and non-statutory bodies, as well as to individuals. The views of any organisation on the constitutional provisions referred to in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The allocation of social housing supports to qualified households is a matter for the local authority concerned, in accordance with its allocation scheme made in accordance with section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated Regulations. Through the supports made available under Rebuilding Ireland, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are currently undertaking an ambitious programme of insulation retrofitting, with the support of my Department, on the least energy efficient social homes. Funding of some €115.7 million has been provided from 2013 to the end of 2017 to improve energy efficiency and comfort levels in almost 64,000  local authority homes, benefitting those at risk of fuel poverty...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Where social housing units are provided by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) under the Capital Assistance Scheme, my Department’s guidance states that rents should be at levels which are reasonable having regard to tenant’s income and the outlay of the AHB on the accommodation. In the past where social tenants in such properties considered that the rent was unaffordable they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1736, 1743 and 1778 together. Action 5.9 of Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness committed to reviewing planning legislation to allow the change of use of vacant commercial units in urban areas, including vacant or under-utilised areas over ground-floor premises, into residential units without having to go through the planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: While the specific information requested by the Deputy is not collected by my Department, the following information has been received from local authorities in respect of the years 2013-2017 and is set out in the following table. It should be noted that these figures include the compulsory purchase of dwellings for housing purposes as well as for other purposes, including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There are more than 50,000 households currently having their housing needs met via the Housing Assistance Payment scheme (HAP) and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS). A key principle of the HAP scheme is that eligible households source their own accommodation in the private rented sector, which best suits their needs in their area of choice. This is distinct from RAS, which is a different...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Properties (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is not the registered owner of any property or land holding.  The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland are the registered owners of any property in state ownership that is occupied by my Department.  With regard to premises and sites occupied by my Department under rent or leases, in general these are rented or leased by the OPW.  When my Department vacates a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The function of the Local Government Audit Service is to complete the audits of all local authorities annual financial statements, using a structured audit methodology in accordance with the Code of Audit Practice and related guidelines. Local Government Auditors are independent in the performance of their duties and it is a matter for each auditor to decide what matters to review. It...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1747 to 1754, inclusive, together. Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966 provides that the management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including the implementation of planned maintenance programmes and carrying out of responsive repairs and pre-letting repairs, is a matter for each individual local authority.  The Voids Programme,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The initial target under Rebuilding Ireland was to deliver 47,000 social homes. However, following my review of these plans and with the overall funding provision increased from €5.35 billion to €6 billion, I have increased the  target to 50,000 social homes. I have also placed a greater emphasis on direct build activity by local...