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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (23 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 694 and 695 together. The development of publicly owned residential lands for housing is an absolute priority for this Government and we are working closely with all local authorities on the development of their sites. In the first instance, it is a matter for local authorities to bring forward viable and appropriate development proposals. Of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Brexit Issues (23 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Planning for the U.K.'s exit from the European Union was initiated over two years ago and preparedness for different types of Brexit is well underway across Government. To this end, co-ordination of the whole-of-Government response to Brexit is being taken forward through the cross-Departmental coordination structures chaired by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In July of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (23 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has a diverse business agenda including delivering, in partnership with local authorities and other bodies, on a wide range of programmes in areas such as social housing, urban renewal, water services and fire services capital investment, each of which includes a number of different funding schemes.  Information on funding provided by my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Planning and Development Regulations 2001 were amended in September 2011 by the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011 to provide that initial afforestation shall be exempted development, i.e. exempt from the requirement to obtain planning permission. The justification for exempting this form of activity from the requirement to obtain planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (23 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The voids programme, introduced in 2014 by my Department, provides additional support to local authorities in preparing vacant units for re-letting. The purpose of the voids programme is to ensure that vacant units are actively targeted, with a view to minimising the turnaround and re-let time of these units and return them to use in an energy efficient condition. Without substantial...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Leases (23 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government has set out an ambitious set of targets for the delivery of social housing in the period to 2021 in its Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan. A commitment to deliver 50,000 new social housing homes through a range of delivery mechanisms is being supported by a multi-annual Exchequer commitment totalling €6.5 billion over the period of the plan. These targets will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (23 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 704 to 708, inclusive, together. Data in relation to local authority social housing delivery, for the period 2013-2017, is available on my Department's website at the following link: . The overall targets under Rebuilding Ireland for social housing build, including Part V and turnkeys, is 4,969 units in 2018 and 6,545 units in 2019. Details in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department issued Stage 1 approval in principle for the scheme concerned in August 2016 and this was followed by a revised Stage 2 in December 2017 and Stage 3 in April 2018.  As stated in my previous reply, Stage 4 approval for construction and associated funding of €1.1m was sanctioned in July of this year allowing the scheme to progress to construction.  An...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (24 Oct 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 needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitment given in Rebuilding Ireland, a review of the first 12 months of the Scheme’s operation has been undertaken. The review is now complete and a full report has been prepared setting out findings and recommendations. In finalising the report some further consultation was necessary and due consideration had to be given to possible implementation arrangements....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is not the case that local authorities are prevented from carrying out inspections of rental properties identified for HAP, prior to HAP approval being granted. Under Section 18 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992, a Local Authority has the power to inspect any property that is let or available to let.  The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Court of Justice Rulings (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Following engagement between the European Commission and my Department regarding the 2013 European Court of Justice ruling in the "Flemish Decree" case, a working group, comprising senior representatives from my Department and planning authorities, was established in May 2017 to review and, where necessary, recommend changes to the 2005 Planning Guidelines on Sustainable Rural...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested is not available in my Department. The Government’s Strategy for the Rental Sector (published on 13 December 2016) recognises that rapidly increasing rental inflation is the most significant challenge to security of tenure in the rental sector and that there is a need for a targeted, time-bound and transparent policy response to the issue of rising...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency (LDA), which was established on 13 September 2018, is aimed at: - ensuring the optimal usage of State lands, coordinating their regeneration and development and opening up key sites not being optimally used,especially for delivery of new homes; and  - driving strategic land assembly through mechanisms that will bring together both public and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040 Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) was launched as part of Project Ireland 2040, to support the compact growth and sustainable development of Ireland’s five cities, regional drivers and other large urban centres.  The URDF is designed to leverage a greater proportion of residential and commercial development, supported by infrastructure, services and amenities,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The funding being provided for the delivery of housing programmes in 2019 will allow the housing needs of almost 27,400 to be met next year. Of the 27,400 housing supports, 10,000 new homes will be delivered through build, acquisition and long term leasing programmes. These additional homes will be funded through a combination of capital and current funding streams, amounting to a combined...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are responsible for the management and maintenance of their housing stock, whether the stock was newly constructed for local authority ownership, or whether acquired as new or as previously-owned properties. This is as set out in Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Given that local authorities have always had an amount of housing stock dotted within multi-unit...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foireann Roinne (24 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Molaim Ceisteanna Uimh. 329 go 330, cuimsitheach, a fhreagairt le chéile. Tá mo Roinn tiomanta seirbhísí ardchaighdeáin a sholáthar i nGaeilge agus / nó go dátheangach dá chustaiméirí. Cheadaigh an tAire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an ceathrú Scéim Ghaeilge de chuid na Roinne...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Health and Safety Regulations (25 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 359 and 365 together. Section 239 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 places a statutory duty on organisers of funfairs and owners of fairground equipment to take such care as is reasonable for ensuring that persons at a funfair do not suffer injury or damage by reason of dangers arising from the funfair or associated activities. This legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (25 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The staffing complement of my Department’s Housing Delivery Office (HDO) has been increased recently from 3 to 4, comprising 2 civil servants and 2 officers with experience of housing delivery and the local government sector. In addition, the HDO draws on supports from other relevant Business Units in my Department and other relevant public bodies. As with all critical areas of...