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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My point is that people seem to deliberately set out to give the impression that the numbers are not correct. I disagree with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes. The increase in the stock of social housing from build through local authorities, housing bodies and Part V is 4,054. In regard to HAP, the Department provides committee members with a regular update on HAP. I am not sure if the Deputy has seen the table in that regard in the documentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: If the Deputy submits a parliamentary question requesting it, I will provide it. This analysis relates to tenancies exiting HAP. Some 9,050 have exited HAP since it was established, of which 3,548 were tenant-led exits. The reason for this includes voluntary exit, deceased tenant, working in a different area, a change in family composition, educational reasons and anti-social behaviour in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Boyd Barrett could put it in a parliamentary question and I will provide it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Okay. Prices are coming down. We are looking at single digit price inflation for house buying this year, which is important because it shows the growth in inflation. All the different indicators tell us that. In Cherrywood, the cost of building will be expensive but they are looking at the build-to-rent model which we need more of as we professionalise the landlord sector. I do not see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It helps because people will go to live in those homes. This will help those people to get those keys and live there. With regard to heights, not to try to start a fight at the end of the meeting, but I hope that people will not start questioning our heights policy based on local concerns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I will come to the point Deputy Boyd Barrett was making in a second but this is an important point to make because local interests have tried to trump good planning, design and housing policy for years, and they have been successful. I said earlier that we need to be resolved as an Oireachtas that we, as politicians, will not get in the way of the densification of urban places. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We need to look at the optimal use for land. If we allow for more apartments to be built on that land, then it will be possible to sell more apartments and make more money. It is possible therefore that the price of land might increase. It is also more expensive to build higher so more costs are incurred and the economics of that need to be considered. If we look at it purely with regard...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: What about the homeless situation in Northern Ireland, Pearse?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is being hypocritical.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy should be told that this House is not a theatre.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Is the Deputy referring to 2008?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There is a section that addresses that anomaly, but we might have to examine the details to see if it addresses exactly what the Deputy wants it to address.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) was introduced in 2005 to meet the accommodation needs of people in receipt of Rent Supplement for 18 months or longer, and who were assessed as having a long-term housing need.  A total of €134.3 million was allocated to support RAS in 2018 and this funding is going towards supporting 600 additional RAS tenancies nationally in 2018...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is a flexible and immediate housing support that is now available to all eligible households throughout the State. At the end of Q3 2018, there were more than 40,000 active tenancies in receipt of HAP support. HAP commenced in County Kerry on 1 December 2016. At the end of Q3 2018, the total number of active HAP tenancies in Kerry County Council...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: For 2018, I announced funding of €66.25m nationally for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability.  This included an allocation of €1,457,964 for Cavan County Council, comprising exchequer funding of €1,166,371 and €291,593 from the local authority. Following a request for increased funding, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: For 2018, I announced funding of €66.25 million nationally for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability.  This included an allocation of €1,237,425 for Monaghan County Council, comprising exchequer funding of €989,940 and €247,485 from the local authority. Following a request for increased funding, the Council was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (13 Dec 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 concerned, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 224 and 227 together. The provisions of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, are designed to enable the development of mixed tenure sustainable communities. Part V units are excluded from the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme 2016 to ensure that units delivered under this mechanism will remain available for people in need of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 225 and 226 together. The Government’s Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is firmly focused on increasing supply to meet social housing needs under a range of programmes in all counties, including Cavan and Monaghan, with 50,000 social homes to be delivered through build, acquisition and leasing in the period to 2021, as well as...