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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced in June 2018 to provide a statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. Regulations in respect of the making of Schemes of Priority were signed on 12 March 2019, and these were issued to local authorities on 22 March 2019.  The purpose of a Scheme of Priority is to set out the affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (9 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced in June 2018 to provide a statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. I signed regulations in respect of the making of Schemes of Priority on 12 March 2019 and these were issued to local authorities on 22 March 2019.  The purpose of a Scheme of Priority is to set out the affordable purchase...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (21 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...currently being collated and will be available shortly. However, at the end of 2017, a total of 820 applications had been received under the scheme. Local authorities were engaging with the property owners in relation to 573 properties, 31 agreements for lease had been signed and 9 homes had been delivered and tenanted. A detailed breakdown of the RLS scheme data up to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...respecting the statutory requirements for public consultation in respect of such proposals. Since the new SHD arrangements came into operation up until 28 February 2019, the Board had received 65 SHD applications and had decided 43 cases, 22 of which related to development projects in Dublin.  The Dublin SHD projects in respect of which planning permission has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: .... There are a couple of interesting things about the numbers relating to the Rebuilding Ireland home loan. Some 70% of people who have been successful in getting approval are earning less than €50,000 and effectively eligible for social housing. This is a real support for people who are not taking up social housing but are using this loan to get their own home, which is very...

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

Eoghan Murphy: ...the family home, or ownership of alternative accommodation, but would otherwise qualify for social housing support. Where affordable housing rather than social housing is appropriate, under Budget 2019, the Government has trebled, to €310 million, the funding available for key facilitating infrastructure on local authority sites, to support the provision of affordable homes to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...approach is being pursued in the areas of the country most affected. The measures are targeted at low to middle income households. Some of the actions taken by Government include the trebling, to €310 million, the funding available for key facilitating infrastructure on local authority sites.  This fund supports the provision of homes to purchase or rent, under the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: ...can achieve compliance with the quality parameters of the Drinking Water Regulations 2014. Under this measure schemes are funded at the rate of 100% in the case of water quality works and at the rate of 85% for other necessary works subject to a maximum of €7,650 per house (based on a cost limit per house for the scheme of €9,000) - Measure 2 - Enhancement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Jan 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A multi-stranded approach is being taken to the targeted delivery of affordable housing, in particular for those households earning up to €50,000 for single income households and €75,000 for dual income households. As part of that approach, I commenced the relevant provisions of Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 last year to provide a statutory basis...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A multi-stranded approach is being taken to the targeted delivery of affordable housing, in particular for those households earning up to €50,000 for single income households and €75,000 for dual income households. As part of that approach, I commenced the relevant provisions of Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 last year to provide a statutory basis...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (4 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: ...to local authorities to complement the Repair & Leasing scheme, allowing local authorities and AHBs to approach owners of vacant, privately-owned houses in need of repair or remediation, with the option to either lease and repair, or to buy and repair, the unit.  An initial €25 million has been made available in 2017 and may be increased to as much as €50 million...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), from 2019 to 2021, to provide infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 more affordable homes on local authority lands. This funding is being made available in areas where local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (14 May 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: .... Firstly, the Housing Agency, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and two Approved Housing Bodies (Respond and Túath) are working on a project at the Enniskerry Road, Dublin, which will deliver 50 Cost Rental homes. Tenders for the project have been assessed and the contract is due to be awarded shortly, with construction expected to commence by the end of this month. An...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: ...in their plans to provide more affordable housing on their lands, it is, ultimately, the responsibility of the each respective Council and their elected members to progress such schemes. Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009 which covers Affordable Dwelling Purchase Arrangements, was commenced in June 2018.  This now provides the statutory basis for the delivery...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...can book staff to that budget. The examples always given to me are that if they had just one more person to drive a particular project, which is a large scheme, they could get it done within the 59 weeks. We want to make sure that they can do that, and that will allow them to do so. Under the affordable purchase scheme and the cost-rental model, we want local authorities to be more...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Eoghan Murphy: ...limited. In line with the programme for Government, he has chosen to focus the budget 2017 income tax package on low and middle income earners, building on the steady progress made since budget 2015 in reducing the USC. For the third budget in a row, he is reducing the top marginal rate of tax on income up to €70,044 per year and, subject to the passing of this Finance Bill, this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021 to provide infrastructure to support the delivery of more affordable homes on local authority lands.  A maximum SSF funding amount of €50,000 is available per home. This sum comprises  €44,500 (or 89%)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 707 and 717 together. Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides a new statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. The new affordable purchase scheme is based on local authorities providing, directly or indirectly, below market price housing. The main tenets of the Scheme are as follows: - It will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced in June 2018 to provide a new statutory basis for affordable dwelling purchase arrangements. Initial regulations in relation to schemes of priorities were made subsequently and further regulations will be put in place over the coming months regarding eligibility and other matters. In order to support the delivery of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...of 3,000. Under the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, which is the current scheme we are progressing through, between 1,700 and 1,800 homes will be made available. With the €25 million secured in the budget for this year and next some 600 to 800 affordable homes will be made available under the affordable purchase scheme. Some 120 homes in O'Devaney Gardens and...