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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Following a review of the two existing local authority home loan schemes, the House Purchase Loan and the Home Choice Loan, I introduced a new loan offering, known as the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan in February last year, to replace the existing schemes. Since its launch in February 2018, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan has proven to be more successful than was initially anticipated....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: To meet the needs of local authority tenants, under the Disabled Persons Grants (DPG) scheme, my Department provides funding to local authorities for adaptations and extensions to their existing social housing stock. The scheme applies to adaptations that are necessary to address the needs of older people or people with a disability or for extensions in cases of overcrowding. My Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme enables credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range, where they cannot obtain sufficient mortgage finance from a commercial lender. The Regulations under which the Scheme is established provide that the loan is available to first-time buyers only. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The final allocations assigned to each local authority for mortgage and home improvement loans in 2018 are detailed in the following table.  These final allocations are reflective of an internal rebalancing exercise carried out by my Department in respect of the approved allocations notified to the local authorities based on estimated drawdowns for 2018 as notified by the authorities. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since its launch in February 2018, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan has proven to be more successful than was initially anticipated. Discussions are ongoing between my Department and the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Finance with regard to further funding for the scheme and I hope that these will be concluded shortly. However, in the meantime, the scheme remains open and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 603 and 604 together. A number of social media accounts are operated by my Department and are managed in accordance with my Department’s Social Media policy. My Department does not engage consultancy agencies, media or otherwise, to assist it with formulating or contributing to policy messaging on social media or videos, hence procurement does...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Protected Disclosures (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, is currently finalising its analysis and response to the submission made, by the person named, with reference to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. While the delay in finalising this matter is regretted, the issue is complex and required significant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Following engagement between the European Commission and my Department regarding the European Court of Justice ruling in the "Flemish Decree" case, a working group was established to review and, where necessary, recommend changes to the 2005 Planning Guidelines on Sustainable Rural Housing, issued under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended.  The working group...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015, set the commencement date as 1 January 2016 for the introduction of the current incremental tenant purchase model. All sales from 1 January 2016 have been made under the terms of this Scheme. In line with the commitment given in Rebuilding Ireland, a review of the operation of the first 12 months of the Tenant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Language (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has a scheme in place in accordance with Part 3 of the Official Languages Act 2003.  The current scheme commenced in March 2017 and is valid for the period 2017 - 2020.  This is my Department's fourth scheme; the first came into effect in August 2005.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (2 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Residential developments consisting of two or more dwellings that have been granted planning permission under section 34 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) may be eligible (depending on the grant of planning condition) for taking in charge. The taking in charge of residential estates by local authorities is provided for under section 180 of the 2000...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for relaying that message from his constituents. I welcome his acknowledgement of the excellent work done by Clúid, as a housing body, in taking people off the local authority housing list and putting them into homes. I do not believe the Deputy recognised before that it is an important player in the provision of social housing up and down the country. As the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. We are aware that the CSO numbers from 2016 include homes that were for rent or for sale and holiday homes. Therefore, the statistic does not give the true number of vacant homes in the country. We now have a vacancy team in each of our 31 local authorities. The teams submitted their plans to my Department and are doing a deep dive to find out whether...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (3 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 225 and 227 together. The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 amended section 3 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 so that dwellings let by approved housing bodies (AHBs) to social housing tenants now come within the remit of the Act. The position of these tenants is significantly improved by the change, which commenced on 7 April 2016, as they now...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (3 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since its launch in February 2018, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan has proven to be more successful than was initially anticipated. Discussions are ongoing between my Department and the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Finance with regard to further funding for the scheme and I hope that these will be concluded shortly. However, in the meantime, the scheme remains open and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. It is somewhat hypocritical questioning how we fund Irish Water and have security of funding for Irish Water, given that certain Members of the House and certain parties in the House canvassed to remove a very important domestic funding stream for Irish Water. That question has been settled and in settling the question the Government made a serious...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (4 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department issued Guidelines to Planning Authorities on Quarrying and Ancillary Activities in April 2004, offering guidance on planning for the quarrying industry, both in the adoption of development plans and in determining individual applications for planning permission for quarrying and ancillary activities.  The Guidelines recommend that applications for planning permission for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies Data (4 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The following table outlines the number and percentage of women on each State board, under the remit of my Department, as of 8 March 2016 and again at 8 March 2019. The table identifies boards that were not established or not under the remit of my Department on 08/03/2016 and those that were no longer under its remit on 8 March 2019....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Meters (4 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels.  Water metering is an operational issue for Irish Water and I have no function in relation to the matter. Irish Water has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (4 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Ireland ratified the Revised European Social Charter on 4 November 2000. At that time Ireland accepted 92 of the 98 paragraphs of the Revised Charter. Three of those paragraphs not accepted by Ireland make up Article 31, which relates to the right to housing. The issue of the right to housing was debated in Dáil Eireann and Seanad Éireann in September 2017.  Arising from...