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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (7 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The only funding of this nature through my Department, for private houses, is through the Housing Adaptations for Older People and People with a Disability schemes. The legislative basis for the funding requires the application of a means test to determine eligibility and to help identify those households facing the greatest challenge in meeting their accommodation needs from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (7 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The reply to Questions Nos. 272 and 273 refers only to the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF).  There is no Capital Advance Loan Facility, although the CALF scheme has sometimes been referred to in such terms.  P&A agreements are signed in respect of all homes funded under CALF. All homes funded under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Property Registration Authority can amend the ownership, registered on a folio, upon receipt of an application for registration. In the event of the death of the registered owner an application would typically be received from a solicitor acting on behalf of the estate of the deceased person. Arrangements have been put in place by all bodies under the aegis of my Department to facilitate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax Data (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 689 and 690 together. Local Property Tax (LPT) is administered and collected by the Revenue Commissioners and is remitted into the Local Government Fund. The Revenue Commissioners publish detailed information on LPT collected annually, broken down by local authority, on its website at the following web link: . The current local retention regime for LPT began...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of public water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. Connection applications are therefore a matter for Irish Water. Irish Water has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from public representatives. The team can be contacted via email...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Planning legislation places no specific restrictions on the height of trees or hedges, nor does it make any particular provision for remedy from any other nuisance which may be caused by trees in an urban residential area. However, a civil remedy is available through the Courts concerning branches or roots of neighbouring trees encroaching on a person’s property. The possibility of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, a household may apply to one housing authority only for social housing support at a time. Currently it is not possible for a household on the waiting list of one housing authority to transfer its application to another authority and to carry the time spent on the previous list. A commitment has been given to examine the possibility of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A review of income eligibility for social housing supports in each local authority area is under way, and this review will encompass issues such as the one referred to. The Housing Agency is continuing to carry out the detailed statistical work, which will underpin this review, on behalf of my Department. The review will also have regard to current initiatives being brought forward in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 696, 711, 719, 725 and 726 together. The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme was launched in February of last year to replace the existing local authority mortgage schemes, which were funded through loans that local authorities obtained from the Housing Finance Agency (HFA) for that purpose. When the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was initially being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Clare County Council has not received a notification from my Department that it can no longer acquire private dwellings for its social housing programme. Contact between my Department and Clare County Council has been around the imminent issuing of social housing targets for 2019 and the fact that, while the Council is likely to undertake further acquisitions, the priority for its social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 698, 704 and 705 together. The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme was launched in February of last year to replace the existing local authority mortgage schemes, which were funded through loans that local authorities obtained from the Housing Finance Agency (HFA) for that purpose. When the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was initially being developed, it...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 699, 706, 710, 712, 727 and 728 together. The Housing Agency provides a central support service which assesses applications for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. Each local authority must have in place a credit committee and it is a matter for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme is administered by local authorities in their areas of responsibility. Each authority has a credit committee which makes the final decision on whether a loan is approved.  The Housing Agency provides a central assessment service for the local authorities. Based on a rigorous financial analysis, the Housing Agency make a recommendation for approval...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 regulate the landlord-tenant relationship in the residential rental sector and set out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Acts to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. The RTB...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 707 and 717 together. Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides a new statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. The new affordable purchase scheme is based on local authorities providing, directly or indirectly, below market price housing. The main tenets of the Scheme are as follows: - It will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides a new statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. The Act itself contains significant detail on the new arrangements, reducing the extent to which regulations are required. Insofar as regulations are necessary, the most immediate requirement is for regulations dealing with the making of schemes of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Property Registration Authority (PRA) is the State organisation responsible for the registration of property transactions in Ireland. In 2018, the PRA completed 226,111 land registry transactions, an increase of 17% on 2017.  Over 80% of cases that were in order for registration and did not require a change to the map or examination of title were completed within ten days or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 715 and 716 together. The Ballymun regeneration programme spanned a long number of years, with Departmental funding first arising in 1999. This substantial programme, which comprised 24 projects, is now complete. The overall programme is estimated to have cost approximately €972 million. Funding of €775.3 million was provided via my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A reply to the correspondence referred to was issued on 7 March 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (12 Mar 2019)

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...