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

Eoghan Murphy: Under sections 48 and 49 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, planning authorities may attach conditions to planning permissions charging development contributions in respect of public infrastructure and facilities provided by, or on behalf of, the local authority that benefit development in the area. Development contributions are levied by planning authorities on the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: As part of Budget 2018, the Minister for Finance announced the Government's intention to establish Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI) to provide funding to viable residential development projects in the State, whose owners are experiencing difficulty obtaining debt funding. With a fund of up to €750 million, HBFI will have the capacity to fund the supply of approximately...

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

Eoghan Murphy: In 2017,  local authorities and approved housing bodies delivered 2,297 build homes across the country. This comprised 1,014 homes delivered by local authorities, 761 build homes delivered by approved housing bodies and a further 522 Part V homes were delivered by local authorities and approved housing bodies. In addition, a further 1,757 social homes were...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme is operated by the local authorities.  As is currently the case, my Department will continue to publish information on the overall number and value of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns.  Information up to Q3 2017 is available on the Department's website at the following link:...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 50, 69 and 73 together. 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 accommodation and related services rests with...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The development of any residential land in housing authority ownership is in the first instance a matter for the local authority concerned, including its elected members.  I want to see local authorities realise new social and affordable homes from their lands without delay, with particular emphasis on prioritising those sites with the greatest potential to...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016.  The Scheme is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme. To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable income of €15,000 per annum and having been in receipt of social housing...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Demand for social housing is met in a variety of ways including through the private rental sector under schemes such as the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) and the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme.  Using a variety of mechanisms to deliver social housing makes social housing supports more responsive and flexible, ensures a better mix between private and social housing and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 57 and 62 together. Details of the number of houses that have been built and acquired by local authorities, including in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in each of the years 2013 to 2017, are published and available on my Department's website at the following link: http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 70 together. 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 does not directly collect information on the number of enquiries to local authorities...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 61 and 81 together. 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...

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

Eoghan Murphy: As housing authorities, local authorities are responsible for the identification of the social housing need in their area and for the development of appropriate responses to the need identified. Local authorities now have substantial pipelines of new social housing projects, details of which can be seen in the quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Reports...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2016-2018 was developed through a working group of key stakeholders involving local authorities, the Water Services Transition Office, Irish Water and the National Federation of Group Water Schemes, as well as my Department. The programme provides for the funding of demonstration group sewerage schemes, through measure 4(d), where clustering of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Remit (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 126 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, An Bord Pleanála  has a statutory objective to determine planning appeals within 18 weeks. Where the Board does not consider it possible or appropriate to reach a decision within 18 weeks (e.g. because of the particular complexities of a case or the requirement to hold an oral hearing), it will inform the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribe maximum net income limits for each local authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band were based on an assessment of the income needed to provide for a household's basic...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The National Planning Framework (NPF) was published in February 2018 as part of Project Ireland 2040, which integrates and co-ordinates high-level objectives for environmental, housing, transport, regional development and related matters and sets a strategic context for sectoral investment and land use planning strategies at the more appropriate levels of the regions and local...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Social housing projects funded by my Department, like all publicly-funded construction projects, must comply with the Government’s Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF), the objectives of which are to ensure greater cost certainty, better value for money and financial accountability. While there are nine points of review within the CWMF, my Department has combined these to...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 75, 76 and 227 together. 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. This scheme is also used to provide funding to local authorities for Improvement...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Water Services Acts 2007-2017 set out clearly the arrangements in place for the delivery of water and wastewater services by Irish Water, including pre-application for sewerage and water services, and further set out the scrutiny and oversight provisions that apply in respect of these arrangements.  Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Economic and Social Council (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 80, 89, 220 and 221 together. I very much welcome the National Economic and Social Council's (NESC) report, Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland's Broken System, published last month and I commend NESC on their contribution to evidence-based policy-making in publishing this excellent report. In developing this report,...