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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 222 and 226 together. The information sought in relation to average costs, to the extent and in the format to which it is readily available, is set out in the table.  The average costs set out are based on the analysis of returned data from tendered social housing schemes over an extended period. Construction cost figures are reflective of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level.  Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless accommodation and related services rests with individual housing authorities.  The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Funding approval for the turnkey social housing project was given to Cork County Council on 6 April 2018.  It is now a matter for the local authority to advance this project.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities now have substantial pipelines of approved new social housing construction projects, details can be seen in the quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Reports published by my Department. The most recently available report sets out the position as at end quarter 4 2017 and is available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link:. I am keen that local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer the Deputy to my reply to his Question No. 338 of 19 April 2018. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As with the previous local authority home loan offerings, loan applications under the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan are made directly to the local authority in whose area the property proposed for purchase is situated. My Department therefore does not directly collect information on the number of enquiries to local authorities regarding the loan or the number of loan applications received by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Sections 38 to 40 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to provide, inter alia, that, where a landlord proposes to sell 10 or more units within a single development at the same time (i.e. defined as within a 6-month period), the sale will be subject to the existing tenants remaining in situ,other than in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Advertising Regulation (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer the Deputy to the reply to Questions Nos. 594 and 599 of 15 May 2018 which sets out the position in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No complaints have been made by me or my Department to media organisations, voluntary sector organisations or other organisations or persons regarding unfavourable or critical comment or coverage since my appointment. On occasion, should factually incorrect or inaccurate material be published, my Department may contact the organisation concerned bringing the relevant inaccuracy to their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I met with the company concerned in July 2017 and my Department has met with them on a number of occasions since. In addition, my Department received a submission from the company in the context of the review of Rebuilding Ireland. My Department will be meeting the company again in the coming weeks, together with representatives from other bodies associated with their proposal regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: During the compilation of the March Homeless Report, in the course of examining data from local authorities, my Department established that a number of local authorities had miscategorised individuals accommodated in houses and apartments owned or leased by the local authorities, including in some instances people renting in the private rented sector but in receipt of social housing supports,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Insurance (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is a statutory requirement that mortgage protection insurance (MPI) is taken out in respect of all local authority housing loans. The Local Authority Mortgage Protection Insurance scheme is a group scheme and is designed to provide an appropriate level of insurance cover to those who wish to avail of the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan. It is overseen by the Mortgage Protection Insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 270 and 271 together. Section 63(3) of the Local Government Act 2001 provides that, subject to law, a local authority is independent in the performance of its functions. The provision and allocation of social housing are matters for local authorities in accordance with their allocation scheme. Accordingly, my Department does not collect data from local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As the Deputy will be aware, the Minister for Finance has recently published the Draft Stability Programme Update for 2018. This included an analysis of the financial impact of the Eurostat decision to reclassify the majority of Tier 3 Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) as part of the local government sector. This was an important first step in the Government's assessment as to the impact of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 May 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: Question Heading for question(s) 275 (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) has been developed to assist private property owners and local authorities or Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to harness the accommodation potential that exists in certain vacant dwellings across Ireland. The RLS was established on a pilot basis in Waterford and Carlow local authorities in October 2016 and expanded nationwide from 23 February 2017. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates Yield (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015. The Commissioner of Valuation has responsibility for valuation matters and is independent in the performance of his functions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chairman and members of the committee for the opportunity to appear again before the committee, this time to give them an update on the progress made in terms of implementation of Rebuilding Ireland in the first quarter of this year. I am joined this afternoon by Mr. John McCarthy, the Secretary General of the Department, and assistant secretaries Ms Mary Hurley and Mr. David...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Senator for his questions. The first issue he raised related to publication of data, verification and validation. I find it hugely frustrating when I see different numbers reported as fact in different places and I have tried to bring a greater coherency to the different types of numbers we produce and publish but the difficulty is there are different ways of counting. We can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We do.