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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 44 and 53 together. The development of residential lands owned by local authorities and the Housing Agency, for social housing and, where appropriate, for mixed-tenure developments, is a major priority under the Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness. To this end, details of some 1,700 hectares of land in local authority and Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My focus, and that of the Government, is to ensure that as many households as possible remain in their homes and in this regard, a range of measures are currently being implemented across Government Departments and agencies. These actions are focused on encouraging those in mortgage distress who have not been able to engage, to reach a long term debt resolution and avoid repossession if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes information on social housing construction projects via quarterly Construction Status Reports. The most recently available report, which sets out the position at end 2017 and is available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link: , provides project and stage details for all local authority areas, including Westmeath and Longford. It also includes new...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regional Assemblies (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 48 and 461 together. The three Regional Assemblies were established further to the Local Government Reform Act 2014 and comprise representation from the constituent local authorities in the Eastern and Midland (Dublin, the Mid-East and Midlands), Northern and Western (North-West, West and Border) and Southern (Mid-West, South-West and South-East) regions. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Notwithstanding the genuine challenges that arise with construction projects of all types, I and my Department have been consistently focused on ensuring that progress is made to achieve housing delivery as quickly as possible. My Department has worked with local authorities to review the processes and procedures for the approval of social housing construction projects and has agreed an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, a total of 208 rapid delivery homes were completed by end 2017. There are currently some 24 further rapid delivery schemes, due to yield in excess of 653 social homes, at various stages of advancement, 283 of which are scheduled for delivery in 2018. Many of the issues around delivery that ‘standard’ social housing construction projects face, are also...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, a total of 50,000 social housing homes will be delivered through build, acquisition and leasing programmes.  In addition to this, 87,000 additional households will be supported through the Housing Assistance Payment Scheme (HAP) and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS). The combination of 50,000 social housing homes and 87,000 HAP and RAS social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I recently wrote to all local authorities, including Tipperary County Council, setting out their individual social housing targets across build, acquisition and leasing for 2018 and also for 2018-2021. In the case of Tipperary County Council, they have a target to deliver 117 new social homes in 2018 through build, acquisition and long-term leasing initiatives, with a further 154 families or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 €15,000 per annum and having been in receipt of social housing support...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 55 and 71 together. The Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessnessis firmly focused on increasing supply and the priority for Government attention is to support those in society with the greatest housing access and affordability challenges. In that context, the focus is on meeting the housing needs of those in the lower-income...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The purpose of Circular PL02/2018, which issued to planning authorities on 9 March 2018, was to remind planning authorities and elected members that they are required to consider planning applications in accordance with the open, transparent and verifiable written process, set down in planning legislation. The circular also highlights that planning authorities, when making their decisions,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The overall aim of the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund is to increase housing supply by removing infrastructural obstacles that were preventing the development of key sites. I have approved funding of €195 million for 30 public infrastructure projects under the first phase of LIHAF. I expect that these projects will activate delivery of up to 20,000 housing units by 2021....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: One of the key outcomes of the second Housing Summit that I held with local authority Chief Executives earlier this year was a commitment to drive greater transparency and accountability at individual local authority level on the delivery of the targets under Rebuilding Ireland. In this regard, I recently wrote to all local authorities setting out their individual social housing targets...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 May 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. On completion of the 6-month occupation, the tenant is entitled to specific protections under the Residential Tenancies Act as long as the tenant complies...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is considered to be a social housing support and consequently households are not eligible to remain on the main housing waiting list. However, acknowledging that some households on the waiting list, who avail of HAP, have expectations that they would receive a more traditional form of social housing support, Ministerial directions have issued to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department did not make a formal submission in the context of the public consultation held by the Department of Finance referred to by the Deputy. However, as the Deputy will be aware, the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 introduced the vacant site levy which is aimed at incentivising the development of vacant under-utilised sites in urban areas for residential or regeneration...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, a total of 50,000 social housing homes will be delivered through build, acquisition and leasing programmes. In addition to this, 87,000 additional households will be supported through the Housing Assistance Payment Scheme (HAP) and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS). When combined, over 137,000 long term and flexible options will be made available to those on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: For an area to be designated a Rent Pressure Zone, it must satisfy the following criteria set out in section 24A(4) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as inserted by section 36 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016): (i) The annual rate of rent inflation in the area must have been 7% or more in four of the last six quarters; and (ii) The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, it is the Chief Executive of each local authority who is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the authority. My Department works closely with all local authorities and staffing sanction requests are dealt with on a case-by-case basis with priority given to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The first call for proposals under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) was issued to all local authorities in August 2016 and I have fully approved 30 projects for funding in the order of €195 million with an associated expected activation of delivery of 20,000 housing units by 2021. Kildare County Council submitted seven projects for consideration under LIHAF....