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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This scheme was funded by my Department under the Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) to be owned and managed by the Approved Housing Body, Respond Housing. The maintenance and upgrade of these properties is therefore a matter for Respond Housing, and my Department has no involvement in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Advisers Data (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I have appointed two special advisers in my Department since my appointment as Minister, both of whom work across the wide range of policy areas within the remit of my Department and who also liaise with the media on those issues. In accordance with the guidelines set out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on Ministerial appointments for the 32nd Dail, both are paid on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Provision is made in my Department's Vote in 2018 for capital expenditure amounting to €1,631 million over the course of the year. The total such expenditure at the end of June was €517 million, which is €29 million (5%) less than was originally profiled for the first half of 2018. This is due primarily to variation between total expenditure on the Housing (€15...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 582 to 584 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 regarding the loan or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: General Data Protection Regulation (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 585 to 587, inclusive, together. My Department has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) as required under Article 37 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). One additional staff member works in the Data Protection Unit, alongside the DPO. Information Officers have also been appointed in each Business Unit to assist with ensuring data protection...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Applications (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The income eligibility limits for Social Housing Support are set out in the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 which 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. Local authorities are obliged to adhere to the Household Means Policy in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The new Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is designed to enable credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range. The scheme is targeted at first-time buyers who have access to an adequate deposit and have the capacity to repay a mortgage, but who are unable to access a mortgage sufficient for them to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Applications (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 provides for new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments, of 100 housing units or more or student accommodation developments of 200 bed spaces or more, to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála for determination within a period of 16 weeks of the lodging of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As Minister, I have been clear that we need to address issues of housing affordability, recognising the pressures that exist for low- to middle-income households, particularly in Dublin and certain other of our main urban centres. The delivery of targeted affordable housing, for purchase and rent, was a priority topic at last week’s Summit which I held with local authority Chief...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government is committed to working with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to secure long-term, low-interest funds for major infrastructure works, including housing development. Together with officials from my Department, I met with EIB housing experts in Luxembourg in February of this year to further build on the EIB’s long-standing support for investment in Irish social and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, an Innovation Fund was established to assist AHBs to develop structures, policies and new funding mechanisms. One of the projects being funded, which is being undertaken by the Irish Council for Social Housing, is the development of a Special Purpose Vehicle to facilitate investment into the AHB...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Information regarding the annual Estimates of Public Expenditure, including the overall amounts made available for the delivery of housing programmes, is available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at the following link:. There is no precise amount of funding notified to individual local authorities for the delivery of housing in a particular year as my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Multi-annual Rural Water Programme was established under my Department to run for the period 2016 to 2018. It was developed through a working group of key stakeholders involving Local Authorities, the Water Services Transition Office, Irish Water, the National Federation of Group Water Schemes as well as my Department. Under Measure 6 of the programme a grant is available to assist...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (11 Jul 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. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Data Sharing Arrangements (11 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Data Sharing and Governance Bill, which is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, was published on 8 June 2018 and is currently at Report Stage in the Seanad. The purpose of the Bill is to promote and encourage data sharing between public bodies by providing a statutory framework for data sharing for legitimate and clearly specified purposes that...

Water Conservation: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I have a published statement that will be circulated to Members from which I will read excerpts due to the restriction on time. I thank the House for making time available to make these statements today. Despite the temperatures having fallen back to more normal values this week, Met Éireann is forecasting only small amounts of rain for the rest of this week and most of next week as...

Water Conservation: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank all Deputies who spoke on this issue for echoing the call for conservation because it is important to make that call. I do not propose to speak with my political hat on. Although one or two Deputies did raise political issues, I am coming at this very much from the point of view of my responsibility for co-ordinating crises and emergency events of the type we have experienced from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (12 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2017, as amended, give legal effect in Ireland to the Nitrates Directive and to Ireland's fourth Nitrates Action Programme (NAP) for 2018 -2021 which was agreed with the European Commission in December 2017 after extensive negotiation. Ireland's NAP contains enhanced measures for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (12 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 regarding the loan or the number of loan...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (12 Jul 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The following table sets out the percentage of men and women at each grade in my Department. GENERAL ADMIN GRADES Equiv grade % Male % Female SECRETARY GENERAL  100 0 ASSISTANT SECRETARY 40 60 PRINCIPAL 72 28 ASST PRINCIPAL 49 51 AO  48 52 HEO  49 51 EO  50 50 CLERICAL OFFICER 23 77 TEMP CLERICAL OFFICER  67 33 VISUALLY IMPAIRED...