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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 24A of the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016  provides that the Housing Agency, in consultation with housing authorities, may make a proposal to the Minister that an area should be considered as a Rent Pressure Zone. Following receipt of such a proposal, the Minister requests the Director of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) to conduct an assessment of the area to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Over the course of Rebuilding Ireland, it is estimated that some 4,700 social housing homes will be delivered through new build Part V units. In terms of the trajectory of delivery for Part V, my Department has set overall targets for such delivery based on the pipeline in place for Part V and also anticipated new build activity in the private market. Part...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is not, as a general rule, available to those in receipt of unemployment or other social welfare benefits. However, where there is a primary income of a waged or salaried nature, long-term State benefit payments may be considered. State benefit payments allowable are: - State Pension (Contributory); - State pension...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Following the decision in December 2017 by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to reclassify 14 of the 16 largest Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) examined as falling within the public sector, EUROSTAT confirmed its agreement with the decision earlier this month. Notwithstanding the decision by the CSO, the Government still sees a central role for the voluntary housing sector in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A range of housing options are necessary to ensure a supply of accommodation to meet different types of social housing need. Harnessing the off-balance sheet potential of private investment in social housing is an important objective of the Government and the social housing targets set out in Rebuilding Ireland over the period to 2021 reflect the ambition in that regard. Of the 50,000...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Development contributions applied by local authorities are levied on the basis of a development contribution scheme adopted by the elected members, which sets out how contributions are to be applied in respect of developments in their respective functional areas. The level of contribution and the types of development to which development contributions should apply, including any exemptions...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Data (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 10 the Referendum Act 1994 provides that whenever a Bill containing a proposal for the amendment of the Constitution is passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas, I am required to make an order appointing polling day. I will make the necessary polling day order if the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018 is passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As part of Budget 2018, I announced that an additional €50 million Exchequer funding will be available for a second LIHAF call. As was the case in the original LIHAF call, this will be subject to matching funding by local authorities, where my Department will provide 75% Exchequer funding, with the Local Authorities themselves providing 25% matching funding, bringing the total...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As a key initiative of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund, LIHAF, is designed to fund the provision of public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical infrastructure blockages and enable housing developments to be built on key sites at scale. Funding of €200 million was originally provided under LIHAF,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to discuss with the committee my Department’s Revised Estimate for 2018, as well as the Votes for the Valuation Office and the Property Registration Authority, PRA, which, arising from a recent transfer of functions, are now also under the aegis of my Department. We have provided a briefing on the Department’s funding for 2018, as well as other key...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I want to get to it right. Which table is it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy mentioned the target of 560 voids. The number is diminishing every year. The voids which are essentially council house vacancies are the low-hanging fruit which have been targeted by the Department for a number of years to bring them back into use as social housing stock. We are not talking about casual vacancies when we talk about voids. While previously properties had to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: When we talk about voids, we are talking about bringing social housing stocks brought back into use from dereliction. When we talk about 2:1s, we are talking about former bedsits being brought back as single-unit accommodation. Essentially, there are three different streams under the voids programme. We are not talking about what the Deputy has described as "expensive re-lets". In some...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: If the funding had not been put in place, it would have fallen out of the stock. It would not be there. The point of the funding is to prevent that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is a good thing that it is happening in ten weeks because if we had not provided the funding, it might not have happened at all.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We are not counting such properties as new units. That is why we have separated voids out of the build target. We are counting them as voids that have been brought back into use but which would not be in use if this programme had not been put in place.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: If we did not bring them back into use, they would not be there for social housing stock. We have to do that. It is relevant to tell people that these properties would be vacant if we had not spent money to put them into use.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes. I can certainly provide figures to the committee setting out how many 2:1s and derelict properties we are working on over the programme. It is important to note that as we work through this programme, the number of voids that have the potential to be brought back into use will decrease every year. The Department is moving towards more active management of stock through a programme...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This change is a significant benefit to the State. It is important to note it has been decided that in order to keep them off the balance sheet, these properties will not come into public ownership at the end of the 25-year period. Indeed, the State will not have the first option on them. This is important because it will allow us to leverage even greater potential to secure more housing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There are four value for money tests for public private partnerships and the associated benchmarks that are applied as the PPP projects are progressed, including a parallel public sector benchmark. The tests set out to see whether the project could be delivered more cheaply through traditional means. All these benchmarks and value for money measures will be made public after the contracts...