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

Eoghan Murphy: 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 associated services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. ...

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

Eoghan Murphy: 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 for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. This...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 86 and 93 together. The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) and the Buy and Renew Scheme have been developed to assist local authorities or Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to harness the accommodation potential that exists in certain vacant dwellings across Ireland. The RLS is targeted at owners of vacant dwellings, who cannot afford or access the funding needed...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels.  This delivery is set in the context of overall Government policy in relation to water services as outlined in the recently published Water Services Policy Statement, which includes the focussing of the programme to meet...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund was designed to activate housing supply by putting in place enabling public infrastructure to facilitate large-scale development on key sites. I have given final approval for 30 projects under the fund and these will stimulate development of approximately 20,000 housing units across 14 local authorities in areas of high housing need by 2021....

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92 and 94 together. Project Ireland 2040, published in February 2018, signals a significant policy shift towards securing more compact and sustainable urban and rural development, which requires significantly more effective land management in key development areas. Against that background, it is proposed to establish a National Regeneration and Development...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Increased funding is being provided to local authorities in 2018 in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. Details of the 2018 allocations to all local authorities are available on my Department’s website at the following link: http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/special-housing...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 218 and 235 together. Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels.  Irish Water’s primary function is to provide clean safe drinking water to customers and to treat and return wastewater safely to the environment.  In...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Question No. 603 of 19 June 2018, which sets out the position in relation to this matter.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 223 and 224 together. There are no specific planning guidelines in place in respect of solar farms. Proposals for individual solar farm developments are subject to the statutory requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) in the same manner as other proposed developments. Planning applications are made to the relevant local planning...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Questions Nos. 25 and 26 on today's Order Paper, which broadly sets out the position in relation to this matter. In addition, before embarking on the development an affordable purchase or rental programme, it is important that local authorities carry out a fundamental economic and financial assessment of the housing purchase and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not provide direct financial aid, incentives or grants for the provision of student accommodation at private residences. However, under Action 4.10 of Rebuilding Ireland which is also mirrored in Action 18 of the National Student Accommodation Strategy, which relates to the provision of student accommodation, my Department and the Department of Education and Skills provide...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Severe Weather Events Response (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The recoupment of unbudgeted expenditure by local authorities related to response and clean-up activities associated with severe weather and flooding has been established practice since the severe flooding that affected the country in 2009 and is seen as an important enabler of an effective and prompt local authority response. A total of €1.772m has been made available to Waterford...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I established two independent Local Electoral Area Boundary Committees on 13 December 2017 to review and make recommendations on local electoral areas having regard to, among other things, the results of Census 2016 as well as the commitment to consider reducing the size of territorially large local electoral areas as set out in A Programme for Partnership Government (May 2016). ...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The responsibilities of local authorities in relation to estate management and housing maintenance are set out in the Housing Act 1966 and I have no plans at present for further legislation in this area.

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

Eoghan Murphy: In accordance with Regulation 5 of the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 (as amended), a household may apply for social housing support to one housing authority only, which may be the authority for the area in which the household normally resides or with which it has a local connection, or the authority that agrees, at its discretion, to assess the household for...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 232 to 234, inclusive, together. I refer to my reply to Question No. 51, Reference No. 21671, on today's Order Paper which broadly set out the position in relation to this matter. In addition, as part of the development of their ambitious multi-annual housing programmes, local authorities are required to consider the availability of land for housing in their...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is working closely with all local authorities in relation to increasing and accelerating the delivery of a range of social housing programmes and supports, including through the use of rapid build methodologies.  Local authorities have been advised that rapid build approaches should increasingly become the norm in terms of delivering social housing projects; ultimately, we...

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: Building Regulations (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 238 to 241, inclusive, together. In response to the emergence of building defects in dwellings, my Department and representatives from the local government sector reviewed the existing building control regulatory framework, in collaboration and consultation with industry stakeholders. This has led to a multi-faceted Building Control Reform...