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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The primary role of the Land Development Agency is to drive the use of available State lands for the development of housing and to regenerate under-utilised sites. On its establishment, the Agency had access to an initial tranche of 8 sites that have near term delivery potential for 3,000 new homes, with additional potential for 7,000 new homes over the medium to longer term. Significant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities.  This responsibility of housing authorities includes responsibility for ensuring that contracted services are delivered in a professional manner, in line with any service level agreement that is in place.  In that regard, housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 introduced new temporary streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments (SHD) - i.e. developments of 100 housing units or more or student accommodation or shared accommodation developments of 200 bed spaces or more - to be made directly to An Bord Pleanala for determination...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 81 and 121 together. Affordable housing is being delivered through a range of mechanisms, including the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF); direct delivery from State land supported by the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF); and delivery by the Land Development Agency.  It is expected that with construction progress being made in 2019, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Important steps have already been put in place, since January 2018, to improve the timelines involved in the advancement of new social housing capital construction projects, from initial proposal to placing the construction contract and starting on site. A timeline of 59 weeks has been agreed with the City and County Management Association (CCMA) for this process, which compares...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is supporting local authorities in the provision of social housing homes through a range of different initiatives and schemes.  This includes the construction of social homes on the land of local authorities and construction delivery in conjunction with Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs).  Local authorities are also working in partnership with private developers to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government recognises the housing affordability pressures that exist for low to middle income households, particularly in Dublin and other main urban centres.  Affordable housing will be available either to purchase, under Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, or through 'cost rental' which is dealt with on an administrative basis. In terms of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area are provided in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA), an exercise which has been carried out on an annual basis since 2016. The assessments are published annually and the most recent assessment, carried out in June 2018, is available at the following link: In...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme was launched in February last year to replace the existing House Purchase and the Home Choice Loan schemes. Towards the end of the year I asked my Department to undertake a review of its operation. In carrying out the review, the Department has consulted with a number of local authorities, the Housing Agency and the Housing Finance Agency....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 91 together. I have met with all local authorities at senior level in relation to the advancement of social housing. In particular, I have held a number of Housing Summits with the local authority Chief Executives, including those from Cavan and Monaghan, the most recent of which was in February 2019. Separately, both I and Minister of State English...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The figure referred to relate to the decrease in the number of private rented tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), rather than rental "properties".  The data held and reported on by the RTB is based on tenancies registered and is the most comprehensive data source on the private rental sector. A tenancy may be terminated by either the landlord or the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92 and 112 together. The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was launched on 1 February 2018 to replace the existing House Purchase and Home Choice Loan schemes, providing a new line of mortgage finance, including fixed rates over 25 to 30 years, to creditworthy first-time buyers who cannot access sufficient mortgage finance from commercial lender.   The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department  launched the National Taking-in-Charge Initiative (NTICI) in April 2016 to trial new approaches and working methods in supporting and accelerating overall national and local action on the taking-in-charge process of housing estates, including estates with developer-provided water services infrastructure which can include stand-alone treatment plants. Under the terms of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Student Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Pillar 4 of the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, published in July 2016, focuses on the supply of rented accommodation and includes actions to enhance the supply of student accommodation. The National Student Accommodation Strategy was subsequently launched in July 2017 by the Minister for Education and Skills. Recent analysis from the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: This Government introduced the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness in 2016 in order to accelerate housing supply, with a particular emphasis on social housing.  The implementation of the Action Plan has seen the capacity of local authorities to deliver social housing increasing over the past three years and very substantial progress has been made. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 96 and 115 together. The Government's Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, Rebuilding Ireland, is designed to increase the delivery of housing across all tenures to help individuals and families meet their housing needs.  The Action Plan focuses, in particular, on increasing the delivery of social housing, with a target of delivering 50,000...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 97 and 123 together. On 7 December 2018, I issued ’Urban Development and Building Height’ Guidelines for Planning Authorities and An Bord Pleanála, pursuant to Section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).Publication of the guidelines, which were called for widely in the wider planning and development sector,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Social housing homes that are upgraded and returned to use with capital funding support from the exchequer via the voids programme are a continuing element of the Rebuilding Ireland programme. Given the level of investment that has been made to date, it would be expected that the scale of the voids programme would reduce over time. For Rebuilding Ireland statistical reporting...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 99 and 107 together. Applications for social housing support are assessed by the relevant local authority, in accordance with the eligibility and need criteria set down in section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, as amended. The 2011 Regulations prescribe maximum net income...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Project Ireland 2040 provides a robust and resilient strategic policy and investment framework for the development of Ireland taking account of a range of relevant and contextual requirements, including existing and emerging climate mitigation and impact considerations. Moreover, addressing the shared national strategic outcomes common to the National Planning Framework (NPF) and National...