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

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Questions Numbers 24 and 25 on today's Order Paper which sets out the position in this matter.

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

Eoghan Murphy: The purpose of the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is to relieve critical infrastructural blockages for key sites to activate housing delivery. Funding awarded under LIHAF is done on a matched funding basis, where a grant is given for 75% of the costs of the infrastructure and the local authority match funds that grant for the remaining 25%. In October 2016, Kildare...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. My Department does not fund any service directly but provides funding to housing authorities on a regional basis as a contribution towards costs incurred. The purposes for which housing authorities may incur expenditure in addressing...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 475 and 476 together. Details of the number of houses that have been built and acquired by local authorities, including in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in each of the years 2013 to 2017 are published and available on my Department's website at the following link: Details relating to delivery in 2018 will be published on a quarterly basis as soon as they are...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Mortgage to Rent (MTR) scheme introduced in 2012, where an Approved Housing Body (AHB) indicates an interest in acquiring a property, the AHB will make an offer to purchase the property based on the market value determined by an independent valuation less any known essential repairs that were not taken account of in the valuation process.  This means that while the market value...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 478, 480, 481 and 485 together. My Department publishes a range of datasets relating to housing market activity on the statistics section of its website.  Details of commencement notices received by each of the 31 local authorities are published as a monthly series, which can be accessed through the following weblink:  . The latest...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Data in relation to social housing delivery by local authorities is available on my Department's website. While data for 2018 to date is not yet available, detailed data in relation to 2017 is available at the following link: . In 2017, over 7,000 additional units were brought into the active social housing stock under Build, Acquisition and Leasing Programmes. This...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Kildare County Council, along with all other local authorities, is being funded to increase significantly its delivery of social housing as part of Rebuilding Ireland. Details on the number of social houses constructed, purchased, leased or supported through the Housing Assistance Payment or Rental Accommodation Scheme by all local authorities over the past 3 years, including Kildare County...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The National Planning Framework (NPF), published together with the National Development Plan (NDP) as part of Project Ireland 2040 in February 2018, sets out an ambitious high-level national vision for Ireland for 2040, and provides the framework and principles to manage future population and economic growth over the next 20 years, catering for around 1 million extra people, 660,000...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes a range of datasets relating to housing market activity on the statistics area of its website.  Details of commencement notices received by each of the 31 local authorities are published as a monthly series which can be accessed through the following weblink: . The latest Monthly Housing Activity Report (March 2018), which is available on , is...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Following a review of the two existing local authority home loan schemes, the House Purchase Loan and the Home Choice Loan, a new loan offering, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan, was made available on 1 February 2018. The new loan enables credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range. The low rate of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Construction Status Report covering the period up to Quarter 4 of 2017 was published on 19 April 2018 and is available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link .  It provides project and stage details of the social housing construction pipeline in place at end of 2017 for all local authorities, including those construction projects being...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 44 and 53 on today's Order Paper, which broadly sets out the position in relation to this matter. In addition, while the delivery of social and affordable homes will, of course, rely significantly on the State developing the full potential of its existing residential land bank, I am cognisant of the fact that some local...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding to local authorities to acquire a range of properties for social housing use. Identifying and undertaking such social housing acquisitions is largely delegated to local authorities, so that they may respond flexibly to all opportunities to provide new social housing.  Such funding is also provided on the basis that the houses are suitable for...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I am conscious of the social benefit accruing from the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, particularly in terms of facilitating the continued independent living by older people and people with a disability in their own homes.  This is recognised in the Programme for Government and as a consequence, funding for these schemes has been increasing...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Government has set out an ambitious set of targets for the delivery of social housing to the period to 2021 in its multi-faceted plan Rebuilding Ireland. A commitment to deliver 50,000 new social housing units through a range of delivery mechanisms has been supported by a multi-annual Exchequer commitment totalling €6.5 billion over the period. These targets will be achieved using...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Review (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2017, as amended, give legal effect in Ireland to the Nitrates Directive and to Ireland's fourth Nitrates Action Programme (NAP) for 2018 -2021 which was agreed with the European Commission in December 2017 after extensive negotiation. Ireland's NAP contains enhanced measures for...

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

Eoghan Murphy: On 17 April 2018, I launched the River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2018-2021, which is available on my Department's website at the following link: . In accordance with the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy), this Plan sets out a comprehensive programme of measures to enhance the quality of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy. We had discussed this at a previous meeting of the Government in regard to what potential new changes have to be brought in to take into account new ways of advertising and of promoting oneself in public life in regard to elections and referendums. My Department and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, under the Minister, Deputy Naughten, are...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. I have no role in individual planning decisions made by local authorities. In Project Ireland 2040, we have signalled some new aspirations for the country concerning where and how we build our houses. There have been some changes and some comments at the European level that are being reflected by the Department at the moment but until such time as those...