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Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: 3 o’clock I answered the question clearly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 563 and 579 together. The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate housing support that is now available to all eligible households throughout the State. There are currently more than 37,000 households having their housing needs met via HAP and some 21,000 separate landlords and agents currently in receipt of monthly HAP...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There is a range of criteria, set out in the enabling Regulations, establishing the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme, which determine whether an applicant will be considered eligible for a loan. The criteria include that the property being purchased with a loan must not have a gross internal floor area of 175 square metres or more.   The Regulations also provide that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am aware of the recent meeting referred to by the Deputy, organised by Minister McHugh and at which my Department was represented, to discuss funding for the restoration of Swan Park in Buncrana which was damaged following an extreme pluvial rainfall event which occurred in the Inishowen Peninsula area of Donegal on 22 August 2017. Funding for repair of public infrastructure is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not have any grant available specific to the removal of asbestos from homes.   The Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability provide a range of grants for necessary improvement works or adaptations to houses in order to facilitate the continued independent occupancy of their own homes by older people and people with a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In December 2008, my Department approved funding of €2.2m under the Capital Assistance Scheme in respect of a project intended to be delivered by St. John of Gods at Clancy Barracks, Clancy Quay, Dublin 8. However, no payments were made in respect of this scheme as the project did not proceed.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The information sought in relation to average costs, to the extent and in the format to which it is readily available, is set out in the following table. The costs set out below are average costs arising in local authority areas, which are based on the analysis of returned data from tendered social housing schemes over an extended period.Construction cost figures are reflective of building...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 569 and 570 together. The Development Contribution Rebate Scheme was introduced in 2015 to enhance the viability of the construction and sale of residential units at affordable prices in locations of greatest need. The rebate is applicable in respect of units that were completed and sold after 1st January 2016 and before 31st December 2017 that meet the other...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 571 and 572 together. The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, set out a series of measures to be introduced to ensure the quality of private rental accommodation by strengthening the applicable standards and improving the inspection and enforcement systems. On 1 July 2017, updated regulatory standards, the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Deposits (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 provides for, among other things, the establishment of a tenancy deposit protection scheme to be operated by the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB). There have been significant changes in the rental market since the 2015 scheme was first envisaged and designed. For example, the draft scheme was originally intended to be financed by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Data (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Board’s (RTB) funding is derived primarily from a proportion of the fee income accruing from tenancy registrations, as set down by Ministerial Order. This income was intended to enable the RTB to move to an entirely self-financing position in 2010. However, due to a deterioration in the RTB’s finances as a result of reduced registrations, a growing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 575 and 583 together. In 2011, the Government announced the standing down of all affordable housing schemes, including the Shared Ownership (SO) scheme, given the changes in the property and lending markets. From 1991 to 2010, a total of 16,492 loans were issued under the scheme, of which 3,323 remained at the end of Q4 2017. Data in relation to activity...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 576, 582 and 585 together. Data relating to activity under the Sale of Sites Scheme are available on my Department's website at the following web-link: . Data concerning activity under the Part V Scheme, the Shared Ownership Scheme, the 1999 Affordable Housing Scheme and the Mortgage Allowance Scheme are also available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 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 homeless accommodation and related services rests with individual housing authorities. My Department does...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 120(5)(a) of the Registration of Title Act 1964 as amended provides that a claim under Section 120 shall be made in the prescribed manner to the Property Registration Authority and notice thereof shall be given to the Minister for Finance. All compensation payable under Section 120 shall be paid by moneys provided by the Oireachtas. Compensation paid under Section 120 is provided...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Working Family Payment (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Support Household Means Policy sets out the manner in which housing authorities will assess the means of applicant households for the purpose of determining the household’s ability to provide accommodation from its own means and by extension its eligibility, or otherwise, for social housing support. The determination of whether an applicant household meets the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Mortgage Allowance scheme provides for an allowance of up to €11,450 payable over a 5 year period to tenants or tenant purchasers of local authority housing, to assist them to purchase or have a private house built with a mortgage. New applications are still being accepted by local authorities under the scheme. The amount spent on the scheme, and the number of housing units...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (26 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: Home Loan Scheme (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It continues to be the case under the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan, which was introduced on 1 February 2018, as with the previous local authority House Purchase Loan, that single applicants applying for the loan must not be earning more than €50,000 gross per annum and the combined income of joint applicants must not be greater than €75,000 gross per annum. This is to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (26 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Following the initial launch and roll-out of the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL) in February, I met with the Chief Executives of the two main agencies involved in the implementation of the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan, the Housing Agency and the Housing Finance Agency, in April as part of my Department's ongoing oversight and monitoring of the new loan scheme and I requested that they...