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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, in respect of adaptations to private houses. There are three separate grants available and local authorities receive an overall allocation, with responsibility for the apportionment between the schemes being a matter for each local authority. The Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Data (14 Jun 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: Social and Affordable Housing Data (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has not received any complaint in relation to the social housing scheme at Rosemount Court, Dundrum, Co. Dublin. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council are currently constructing 44 high quality housing units at the site, which are due for completion in Q3, 2018. The Council state that this development is delivering in a timely manner and will greatly enhance the local area when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Freedom of Information Data (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The number of FOI requests that my Department has received from 1 January 2018 to 11 June 2018 is 236. A total of 8 cases sought internal review (i.e. were appealed), 48 requests were refused and 97 were granted or part-granted. The remainder were either withdrawn, lapsed or are as yet undecided. My Department does not routinely compile figures on the costs applied; however, €370 in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 provides the statutory framework for the establishment of the Pyrite Resolution Board, and for the making of a pyrite remediation scheme to be implemented by the Board with support from the Housing Agency. The is a scheme of “last resort” and is limited in its application and scope. The full conditions for eligibility under the scheme are set out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government decided in March 2017 to accept in principle the main recommendation in the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution that citizens outside the State, including citizens resident in Northern Ireland, should have the right to vote at presidential elections and that a referendum be held to put this to the people. In this context, the Government determined that work...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Sale of State Assets (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Prior to the publication of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homlessness,it was planned to establish a financial vehicle to facilitate the aggregation of private investment into a fund for subsequent lending as project finance. The intention was that this investment would be off-balance sheet and in Budget 2015, the Government announced that €400m of public...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding under the Voids Programme to assist local authorities in bringing vacant local authority housing stock back to productive use. Earlier this year, local authorities, including Galway City and County Councils, submitted to my Department details of their work proposals and related funding requirements for this programme in 2018. These proposals are currently been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Data (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 introduced a new measure, the vacant site levy, which is aimed at incentivising the development of vacant, under-utilised sites in urban areas. Under the Act, planning authorities are required to establish a register of vacant sites in their areas, beginning on 1 January 2017. Planning authorities have issued notices to owners of vacant sites by 1...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Data (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The specific information sought regarding the number of landowners subject to the derelict sites levy by local authority is not readily available in my Department. However, my Department collects details, on an annual basis in respect of the previous calendar year, which includes information regarding the number of notifications issued to owners of derelict sites, and the number of derelict...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Against the background of the affordability pressures which currently exist in the rental market, the Government is determined to make cost rental a major part of the Irish housing system, similar to the role it plays in many other European countries. Under this approach, rents are set at levels to recover the construction costs and to facilitate the management and administration of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The delivery of more affordable homes, to buy or rent, particularly in areas where people are facing the greatest affordability challenge, is a major priority for Government. Of course, affordability and access to affordable housing are significantly influenced by the supply of new homes to buy and rent, and competition in the market. Therefore, the Government has taken significant action to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (14 Jun 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 social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Building Control Acts 1990 to 2014, primary responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the Building Regulations, including Part B (Fire Safety), rests with the owners, designers and builders of buildings. As such, in general, building defects are matters for resolution between the contracting parties involved, the homeowner, the builder, the developer and/or their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On 27 June 2017, following the fire in London’s Grenfell Tower, and in recognition of concerns arising for fire safety in Ireland, I tasked my Department’s National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management with convening and coordinating a high-level Task Force to lead a re-appraisal of fire safety in Ireland. In addition to this, and in the immediate aftermath of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Planning Framework(NPF), published by Government in February 2018 under Project Ireland 2040, provides for a Housing Need Demand Assessment (HNDA) to be developed by each local authority, in a co-ordinated fashion, to support the preparation of wider statutory housing and core strategies as part of the relevant local authority development plans. To embed the HNDA approach in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Action 18 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector, my Department established a Working Group, involving representatives of all major public stakeholders with a policy interest in short-term lettings, to develop guidance in relation to planning applications, changes of use relating to short-term lettings and to examine the need for new regulatory arrangements. The proposals considered by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (14 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department provides funding to local authorities for the delivery of a range of housing programmes and supports. The details requested in respect of Longford County Council and Westmeath County Council are set out in the following table. Longford County Council - 2011 €m 2012  €m 2013  €m 2014  €m 2015 ...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, is bringing through the Houses a planning Bill which includes an amendment to deal with the issue raised by the Deputy of access to industrial forestry to allow farmers and others to facilitate the movement of timber goods from their lands. On the issue of people objecting to the granting of planning...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy did not raise a question.