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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (19 Jun 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, in April I met with the Chief Executives of the two main agencies involved in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Further to my reply to Question No. 1046 of 20 March 2018, which sets out the limited circumstances that would apply where a separated or divorced person who is not a first-time buyer could qualify to apply for a Rebuilding Ireland home loan (RIHL), the circumstances of the individual outlined in the Deputy’s question would not appear to meet the criteria to apply for a loan under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Agency provides a central support service for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme by assessing valid loan applications that are made to the local authorities and make recommendations to the authorities as to whether loans should be offered to applicants. I have asked the Agency to centrally compile figures of the numbers of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I recently announced funding of €66.25 million nationally for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. This includes €1,498,067 for Louth County Council comprising Exchequer funding of €1,198,454 and €299,613 from the local authority, which represents an increase of €293,388 over the 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Prior to the publication of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, 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: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The local authority homes that have been built in counties Longford and Westmeath in 2016 and 2017 are set out in the Social Housing Construction Status Report which is published on a quarterly basis. That report contains information on all new social housing construction, both that contracted by the local authorities and that being advanced by AHBs in agreement with the authorities. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department places advertisements with Mediavest, who are on Lot 3 of the Media Strategy Planning and Buying Framework, following a tender process run by the Office of Government Procurement. The following is the list of payments made to Mediavest by my Department from 2016 to date. Year Amount Project 2016 €671.74 Planning Policy 2016 €7,693.86 Marine Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Consultation Process (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Information on the public consultations held by my Department and the number of replies received per consultation is set out in the second table. Work carried out by staff in my Department in relation to public consultations forms part of the Department’s staff costs and is not itemised separately. Information in relation to the external costs that are sometimes associated...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Short-Term Letting (19 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As the Deputy will be aware, in April the Minister for Finance 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Data Analytics Group was set up in May 2017 to investigate the need for improvements to data across the area of all pillars of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness. To date its efforts have been focussed on Pillars 3 and 5 of Rebuilding Ireland, “Build more homes” and “Utilise existing housing stock”. A key consideration for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Protected Disclosures (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Further to my reply to Question No. 197 of 2 May 2018, my Department's assessment of both the submission made with reference to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 by the individual concerned and Galway City Council’s report in response to that submission, is now concluded. As I informed the individual concerned in writing on 18 May...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (19 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is designed to enable credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range. The scheme is targeted at first-time buyers who have access to an adequate deposit and have the capacity to repay a mortgage, but who are unable to access a mortgage sufficient for them to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme enables credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range, where they cannot obtain sufficient mortgage finance from a commercial lender.  As with the previous local authority loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is available to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Staff (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Demand for the RTB’s services has increased significantly due to the increasing size of the rental sector and also because of the changing regulatory structure. Furthermore, a number of additional functions have been added to the remit of the RTB since 2017, including: - implementation of new Rent Predictability Measures, such as the introduction of Rent...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is provided by local authorities in accordance with the Housing (Rebuilding Ireland Home Loans) Regulations 2018, which broadly set out the eligibility criteria to avail of the loans as well as the obligations of the local authorities and duties of borrowers in respect of the Scheme. In accordance with the regulations as Minister, I have issued a statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The data requested is currently being compiled and will be provided to the Deputy as soon as possible. This exercise will involve the examination of an extremely voluminous amount of data and it may not be possible to furnish the material within the timeframe set out in Standing Order 42 A (1)(b). However, My Department will endeavour to provide the information to you as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Disabled Persons Grants Scheme (DPG's), my Department provides funding to local authorities for adaptations and extensions to the existing social housing stock to meet the needs of local authority tenants. The scheme applies to adaptations that are necessary to address the needs of older people or people with a disability who may require stair-lifts; grab-rails; showers;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (19 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is deemed to be a social housing support under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014. As a long term housing support, an assessment of housing need must be completed in order for a household to qualify for HAP. Any household with an identified housing need is eligible for HAP. The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 provide that subject...