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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There are currently more than 32,000 households having their housing needs met via the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). Data regarding the number of households set up on HAP is published on my Department's website and is available up to the end of quarter 3  2017. Data for quarter 4 is currently being finalised and will be published shortly. The total number of new...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, it is the Chief Executive of the Council who is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority. Outside of agreed workforce planning numbers, a local authority must apply to my Department for sanction approval for staff. My Department works closely...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribe maximum net income limits for eligibility for social housing support for each local authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy, published by my Department. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band are based on an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Within the overall €6 billion investment framework for Rebuilding Ireland, a funding provision of €1.9 billion is provided for the delivery of housing programmes in 2018.  This represents a 36% increase over 2017 expenditure and will ensure that 25,500 new households have their housing need met this year.  In 2018, some 5,000 new social housing homes will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Voids Programme, introduced in 2014 by my Department, provides additional support to local authorities in preparing vacant units for re-letting. The purpose of the Voids Programme is to ensure that vacant units are actively targeted, with a view to minimising the turnaround and re-let time of these units and return them to use in an energy efficient condition. Between 2014 and 2017,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In June 2014, the Government established a Housing Supply Coordination Task Force for Dublin under Construction 2020 - A Strategy for a Renewed Construction Sector.  The remit of the Task Force includes the monitoring of relevant housing data on the supply of viable and market-ready approved developments. The data collated by this Task Force on the aggregated planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) have a critical role in the delivery of new social housing as identified in Rebuilding Ireland, and as evidenced by the range of funding support mechanisms available from my Department and local authorities to support this ambition. One of these supports is the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF), which assists AHBs in accessing private or Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level.  Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. This...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (31 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. There are currently more than 32,000 households having their housing needs met via HAP. Following the commencement of the provisions in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014, HAP is considered to be a social housing support...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenancy Protection Scheme (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Security of tenure provisions under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 apply once a tenant has been in occupation of a dwelling for a continuous period of 6 months, with no notice of termination having been served during that time. Section 34 provides that a landlord must state a reason for the termination in any notice served. The reason must be one of those...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The purpose of the voids programme is to ensure that vacant units are actively targeted and returned to productive use as quickly as possible, particularly homes that would likely remain vacant for a significant period of time because of the cost of the works required.  Funding these refurbishments and bringing such units back into active use means that households, who would...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness has put in place the funding required to accelerate the delivery of social housing across all local authority areas. €6 billion in exchequer investment has been secured to support its implementation and to deliver 50,000 social housing units through build, refurbishment, acquisitions and leasing, over...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department approved overall funding of €5.68 million for Meath County Council, under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF), for the provision of an access road at the site in Farganstown, Navan, Co. Meath. This will enable the construction of some 400 homes, both social and private, on the associated private and state owned sites. My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government recognises that housing affordability is a major issue for some households in parts of the country, including Galway. While initiatives introduced to date are having a positive impact and will have a greater impact in time, the need for further targeted measures is recognised. For this reason, on 22 January, I announced a package of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 24 January 2018, which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 105 and 115 together. The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016.  The Scheme is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme. To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable income of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On 15 January last, I published indicative national figures for social housing output for 2017. These are available at the following link on my Department's website: . Following completion of the necessary validation process, the full breakdown of this delivery for 2017, including by local authority area, will be published on my Department's website.  In the meantime, details...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of households qualified and on waiting lists for social housing support in each local authority area, are set out in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments. The most recent summary, which was carried out in 2017, details the number of households on all local authority waiting lists, as at 28 June 2017 and can be accessed on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Acts regulate the landlord-tenant relationship in the private rented sector and set out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants. Furthermore, the Residential Tenancies Board was established as an independent statutory body to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. Under the Acts, where a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In December 2017, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) made a decision on their review of the classification of Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for Government accounting purposes. They found that 14 of the 16 largest AHBs should be re-classified as falling within the public sector, under the broad local government classification. While a final decision has yet to be taken by...