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

Eoghan Murphy: The data requested is currently being compiled and will be provided to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

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

Eoghan Murphy: The data requested is currently being compiled and will be provided to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

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

Eoghan Murphy: The taking-in-charge of housing developments is a matter for the relevant local authority under section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). In April 2016, my Department launched a National Taking-in-Charge Initiative (NTICI) to encourage local authorities to trial new approaches and working methods in supporting and accelerating overall national and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Government is determined to make cost rental a major part of the Irish housing system, similar to the role that it plays in many European countries. Under the cost rental approach, rents are set at levels to recover construction costs and to facilitate the management and administration of developments, with only a minimal amount of retained earnings included. The pilot project...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Roads and thoroughfares in private housing estates which have not been taken in charge are not public roads within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993. Notwithstanding this, local authorities have statutory powers in relation to their roads and planning functions which enable the taking in charge of housing estates, once completed, and a valid...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Commercial rates form an important element of the funding of all local authorities. However, the legislative basis for the levying of rates consists of over 20 separate pieces of legislation, some dating back to the 19th century. My Department developed legislative proposals to modernise and consolidate the legislation governing commercial rates into a single enactment and, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 25 and 26 together. Under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Government's commitment to an ambitious delivery agenda for social housing is clear and substantial progress continues to be made to expand the social housing programme significantly from a virtual standstill position a number of years ago. As Minister, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his question. It is important to note that the problems we are facing in the housing sector were 15 years in the making and they cannot be fixed in two years. However, we are seeing some interesting developments in the housing market. For example, house prices were still falling in 2012 and while they are dramatically increasing again, they are still 21% below the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This is about building Ó Cualann-type housing at scale. To do this, I have increased the amount of money available from €25 million to €75 million, plus €25 million from the local authorities. Some of this money will be drawn down this year to meet the cost of site preparation works. I hope to see some affordable purchase homes accessed this year but we will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This crisis is not eight years in the making. House prices were still falling in 2012. The affordability scheme was stood down because there was no affordability issue in the country at that time. We exited the bailout in 2014. In 2016, the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government put in place Rebuilding Ireland, a dedicated Ministry and, for the first time, ring-fenced funding to restore the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Home ownership rates have decreased for a variety of reasons. For example, people are staying longer in education, households are forming later in life, smaller households are forming and people are more mobile in where they work and how they live. We need to ensure that owning a home continues to be an aspiration for many people and that we can provide for it. In the first quarter of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We are asking local authorities, apart from the ten areas in which we know there is a difficulty, to prove the case for having an affordability scheme. Each local authority will have to do this under the scheme. I think I have answered all of the Deputy's questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government's Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness emphasises the need to look at new ways of funding social housing delivery, in particular, the need to provide structural, funding and policy supports to increase delivery of social housing by approved housing bodies. Against that background, credit union representative bodies put forward proposals for how credit...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is very important as we resolve the housing crisis that we look to new finance vehicles. The Deputy is absolutely correct to emphasise the role the credit union sector can play. There are also a number of funds we are looking to get involved in the provision of social and affordable housing. We can leverage these streams of funding to make sure we put secure housing in place and at less...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We have to remember that it is a decision for the approved housing bodies to make with the credit union sector. We cannot force them into making it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Phase 3 is about the technical work required to put together a special purpose vehicle. It is not simple to put a special purpose vehicle together. There are a number of technical requirements. It has been indicated to me that further clarification will come from the approved housing bodies to my Department on how exactly they can do it. We have to bear in mind the separate work happening...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Developing the State landbank for housing is a key priority. Importantly, we have large sites in Dublin, Cork and other key urban areas where housing and homelessness pressures are greatest. We now have a good picture of all local authority residential lands and authorities have well-developed plans for many of their sites. This is backed by €6 billion in Exchequer funding, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. If there was a difficulty in the response Deputy Boyd Barrett heard, that was because of a difficulty in the question. It flies in the face of reality. This crisis is 15 years in the making. This Government has put together a €6 billion war chest to fix our housing sector under Rebuilding Ireland and to fix it in a way so that we do not make the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This is not a question of money or resources. They are in place. There is a €6 billion ring-fenced fund over the life of the Rebuilding Ireland programme. When I needed an additional €100 million last year, I was able to secure it and that went into homes and emergency accommodation. Last year, when I also went looking for €500 million for Rebuilding Ireland, I was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The housing land initiative, HLI, includes the regeneration of a number of significant development sites on lands in the ownership of Dublin City Council, including St. Michael's Estate site in Inchicore. Feasibility studies on the sites, which were presented to and passed by the elected members of Dublin City Council on 9 January 2017, included the council’s agreed optimum mix of 30%...