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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Agency Data (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 Agency ownership were published on the Rebuilding Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The report referred to was published in October 2013 and my understanding is that the data therein was sourced from the Census of Population 2011. I note that the results of Census 2016 (which took place on 24 April 2016) show that vacancy levels in urban areas had decreased compared with the previous Census, while in rural areas vacancy generally remains high. The data provided by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040 Funding (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Project Ireland 2040 provides for the establishment of a €3 billion Regeneration and Development Fund: €2 billion for urban regeneration and development purposes, focusing on cities and towns in excess of 10,000 in population, which would include Drogheda, complemented by a €1 billion fund for rural regeneration of smaller towns and villages, which is the responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (15 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 583 and 588 together. The new Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme is designed to enable credit worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties. The low rate of fixed interest associated with the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan provides first-time buyers with access to mortgage finance that they may...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 585 and 586 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 495 of 8 May 2018. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (15 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, known as the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL), was introduced on 1 February 2018. Following the initial roll-out of the scheme, my Department has engaged with the Housing Agency and the Housing Finance Agency to consider the experience to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Administration (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 176 of the Residential Tenancies Act provides that fees received by the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) under the Act shall be paid into, or disposed of for the benefit of, the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister may direct. By various Ministerial Directions since 2005, a percentage of fees received by the RTB under the Act has been allocated for transfer to local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 590 and 591 together. The National Planning Framework (NPF) sets parameters for future planning in Ireland at an overall and strategic level and was not written for direct application to individual counties and towns, without first having regional-level policies developed through the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) process. The quantum...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: While there are currently no staff members assigned solely or primarily to North-South issues in my Department, a team of three in the Assistant Secretary led Corporate and Business Support Division, headed by a senior official at Principal Officer level, is involved directly at various times in planning and working on North-South issues, EU business and Brexit matters, with input from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 594 and 599 together. I have no function in relation to the regulation of how property websites and advertisements for properties for sale display information, including whether they provide specific asking prices or not. I have no plans to introduce legislation or guidance in relation to the assignment of conditions of planning permission regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 595 to 598, inclusive, together. The National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (NHSPWD) 2011-2016 and associated National Implementation Framework are joint publications by my Department and the Department of Health. They set out the Government’s broad framework for the delivery of housing for people with a disability through...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Acquisition (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand that negotiations between Meath County Council and the Department of Education and Skills regarding the transfer of the site to facilitate housing development in the Ashbourne area are at an advanced stage. My Department has been actively engaging with the Department of Education and Skills in this regard, to highlight the potential value of this site to support housing delivery...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (15 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 601 to 603, inclusive, together. The registration of title to land owned by a local authority is a matter for each individual authority. The CPO referred to and administration of an associated loan application by my Department were the subject of independent reviews by a Senior Counsel who was commissioned by the then Minister for the Environment, Community...

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Daft.ieis a great platform which I use myself but it has a direct interest in the property sector so we should not elevate its reporting to the same level of what a Government or State agency report might say. We look to the Residential Tenancies Board for reports on what is happening in the rental sector. Daft.ieis only one of many platforms with properties to rent so it does not show the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A number of claims are circulating about people being put on or taken off the register and about polling cards being delivered with certain types of literature but not all of them are true. We have to be careful about fake news being spread around this on social media-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: -----and traditional media but we are looking at the matter at the moment.

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The failure here was not a failure of the planning process. I recognise that improvements have to be made. That is why the planning Bill that is currently going through the Houses categorises things like data centres as part of our strategic infrastructure and allows them to go directly to An Bord Pleanála. We have seen from Mr. Justice Peter Kelly, who is the president of the High...

Residential Tenancies (Rent Pressure Zones and Student Accommodation) (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"notes that: — the economic downturn had a very significant impact on housing supply and the construction industry, with housing construction falling by over 90% between the peak in 2006 and the trough in 2013; — with the economy returning to significant and consistent...