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

Eoghan Murphy: There is much interest in the St. Michael’s site because it provides opportunities to deliver cost rental, affordable homes close to the city centre, close to key infrastructure, such as transport, and close to where people will want to live and work. It can do that in a way where people who are not able to qualify for social housing, but also cannot get access to the private rental...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Every time we talk about fixing our broken housing sector, we talk about doing it in a way that does not make the mistakes of the past. That is why we always talk about a mixture of tenure on any site. It is the right way to go to have social and affordable homes and private homes on the same site. We know on the St. Michael's site that we can accommodate all three with a much greater...

Other Questions: Election Management System (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Who would be No. 2?

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. In January last, I provided each local authority with the capacity and resources to establish a dedicated housing assistance payment, HAP, place finder service. Among the services and support the place finder service can offer is the capacity to pay deposits and advance rental payments to landlords on behalf of households in emergency homeless...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his questions. I do not doubt he has done much work in this area and I am well aware he has engaged with my officials for a number of weeks on a couple of cases. The place finder service was only rolled out beyond Dublin and Cork at the beginning of the year. Of the 20 local authorities which requested a place finder service, 17 now have a service in place. The...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his question. He touched on a couple of issues and I will try to get to each of them briefly. He is absolutely right to focus on people who are sleeping on the street, on trying to get them into emergency accommodation and then onto a sustainable pathway. We now have the policies in place to do so. Since last year we have seen a dramatic reduction in the level of...

Other Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The aim of the local infrastructure housing activation fund is to increase housing supply through enabling infrastructure such as roads, bridges and parks. It is now the case that significantly increased funding will be available for enabling infrastructure projects through the new €2 billion urban regeneration and development fund and the...

Other Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the follow-up questions. LIHAF 1 is about using State money to unlock larger areas of land and housing potential than would have been available had we directly built the houses ourselves. Approximately €200 million will deliver in the region of 20,000 homes. Not every scheme that applied to the fund was successful. There were three successful schemes under...

Other Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I will respond briefly to Deputy Ó Broin. I do not agree that the sites would have proceeded had we not put in place LIHAF 1 funding. The State is getting the money back for the investment made. The State is getting far more back in terms of unlocking these sites for housing than it might have gotten had it directly invested the money. If the current inflation trend for house price...

Other Questions: Water Quality (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The European Commission has referred a complaint against Ireland to the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to compliance with the urban wastewater treatment directive.   The case relates to 40 urban areas which the Commission believes to be non-compliant.   The Chief State Solicitor's office formally lodged Ireland's defence with the Court of Justice...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I can confirm that is the intention with the statutory instruments when they come.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A national review of the differential rent scheme is under way. I asked the Deputy if he could show me some written evidence of what was happening with the tenants to whom he referred in order that I could progress the issue with the local authority and see what the exact position was.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The redrawal of local authority boundary areas for the local elections next year was undertaken by committees independent of me in line with terms of reference agreed to by the Government. The recommendations they have made are for the boundaries in question and will be implemented without change.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Munster for the question. My Department and the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, recently announced an increase in allocations for housing adaptation grants for this year. Funding for housing adaptation grants has increased this year. Later this week, we will announce additional funding for these grants to help in this area. The number of grants is increasing...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy O'Keeffe for the question. Between now and 2027, more than €8.5 billion will be invested by Irish Water in key infrastructure, the majority of which will go into wastewater infrastructure because it is so important. Obviously, because Irish Water sits in my Department and I also have responsibility for housing, we can co-ordinate investment to ensure houses are built...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Security of tenure provisions under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 apply once a tenant has been in occupation of a dwelling under tenancy for a continuous period of 6 months, with no valid notice of termination having been served during that time. If a landlord is terminating the tenancy on the grounds that he or she intends to substantially refurbish or renovate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 37 and 88 together. The Government, working with the local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies and other delivery agents, is already exceeding the social housing delivery targets set for the first two years of Rebuilding Ireland. Just under 45,000 households have had their housing need met by the end of year 2 of the Rebuilding Ireland Plan – 33%...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 39, 59 and 84 together. A motion to refer the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, which dealt with economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to housing, to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, was passed by the Dáil on 28 September 2017 and by the Seanad on 11 October 2017. This...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 40, 60, 79, 85 and 87 together. Ensuring that we have a supply of housing that is affordable, particularly for households on low to moderate incomes, is a major priority for this Government. Recognising that people want a choice of affordable purchase and rental, depending on their stage of life and circumstances, both are being progressed through a range...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 43, 44, 54, 63 and 71 together. St. Michael’s Estate is one of three significant sites being brought forward by Dublin City Council under its housing land initiative, HLI, the aim of which is to ensure the delivery of mixed-tenure homes in the Dublin City Council functional area. All three sites under the HLI are identified as strategic development...