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

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. Since the establishment of the RTB, over €34 million has been paid to local authorities to assist them in the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, a total of 208 rapid delivery homes were completed by end 2017.  There are currently some 20 further rapid delivery projects, yielding in excess of 470 social homes, at various stages of advancement, the vast majority of which are scheduled for delivery in 2018. Under my Department’s current funding programmes, approved housing bodies (AHB)...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Delivering cost rental will be an important part of the overall solution to the affordability challenge and work is under way to identify potential local authority sites that can be developed for cost rental projects, particularly in areas of high housing demand and high accommodation costs.  In this regard, the Housing Agency and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable 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, through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments and through working with approved housing bodies under a range of delivery options. Details on the number of properties purchased...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Section 63(3) of the Local Government Act 2001 provides that, subject to law, a local authority is independent in the performance of its functions. The allocation of social housing support to qualified households is a matter for the local authority concerned in accordance with the authority’s allocation scheme made under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009...

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

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. HAP plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals. There are currently more than 31,000 households having their housing needs met via HAP including over 8,500 households that were previously supported by Rent Supplement and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation pursuant to the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority.  The annual rate on...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not have any anti profanity software in use on its email systems or online contact forms.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1835 and 1837 together. The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 provides for new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments, of 100 housing units or more or student accommodation developments of 200 bed spaces or more, to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála (the Board) for...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The information my Department collects on units delivered under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, does not distinguish between whether the relevant planning permission (pursuant to which the Part V agreement was made) was granted by a planning authority, An Bord Pleanála on appeal, or by An Bord Pleanála under the new strategic housing infrastructure...

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

Eoghan Murphy: In terms of lands owned by local authorities, all local authorities are required to record assets, including all land assets, in the Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet), in accordance with the Local Authority Accounting in Ireland Code of Practice and Accounting Regulations, which is available on my Department's website at the following link: . The...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Details of expenditure in 2017 on advertising and information in relation to government initiatives is set out in the following tables: Cost Campaign €2,657.00 Official Notices of Statutory Instruments €3,462.00 Rebuilding Ireland Rental Market & AHB Reg Section €4,881.86 Water Quality - Nitrates Regulations €6,468.80 Water Quality- River...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The tenant purchase scheme was overhauled very recently. We undertook a second review over the course of this year, which is now almost complete. We are in consultation with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We are finalising the review and will be publishing the details very shortly.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We will be reintroducing an affordable housing scheme very shortly. It does not require new legislation because legislation is already in place which we will re-purpose for the scheme.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: New legislation is not required. We have legislation in place from 2009, from which we will take provisions and regulations for a new scheme to be introduced very shortly.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Planning authorities and An Bord Pleanála are required to take account of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines for Planning Authorities, which were issued as statutory guidance by the Minister under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, when considering planning applications or appeals in respect of proposed wind energy developments. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authority house purchase loan finance continues to be made available to first time buyers only. The Housing (Local Authority Loans) Regulations 2012 are kept under on-going review and there are no plans, at this time, to alter the scope of the Regulations to include non-first time buyers. The option currently available for non-first time buyers is to seek home loan facilities from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Aggregation Scheme was introduced in 2010 as part of revised arrangements for the funding of land for housing purposes.  The primary purpose of the Scheme was to assist in the gradual unwinding of loans taken out by housing authorities to purchase land for the social and affordable housing investment programme.   Local authorities were invited to apply to my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities have a number of options available to them in meeting social housing needs. These include, if they consider it appropriate, the transfer of a site from a person qualified for social housing to the local authority, and the building of a social house on the site by the local authority, to be tenanted by the person who transferred the site. I understand that the scheme...