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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: Home Loan Scheme (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 lenders.   The HFA borrowed €200 million to fund the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 623 and 624 together. The Local Government Audit Service (LGAS) is statutorily responsible for providing a professional audit service to local authorities, including conducting external audits of local authorities and giving an audit opinion on the annual financial statements.   The Local Government Audit Service (LGAS) value for money...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I refer the Deputy to my reply to recent Parliamentary Question No 1389 of 26 March 2019 on this matter; On 12 March 2019, I received a statement of case from Sligo County Council that Imperative Reasons for Overriding Public interest (IROPI) exist in respect of a planning application for the upgrade to the existing water treatment plant at Lough Talt, County...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly in relation to 'the manner in which referenda are held' are currently under consideration in my Department. When that analysis is completed I will bring the matter to Government with a view to the Government responding to the Houses of the Oireachtas in relation the recommendations concerned. If a recommendation is being accepted, the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: A proposal was received from Wicklow County Council, on behalf of an AHB, for the acquisition and adaptation of the property in question, in June 2017 and my Department responded in July 2017, requesting that the acquisition and adaptation of the property be pursued at a more reasonable level of costs. I understand that, subsequently, the AHB proceeded with the acquisition of the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: There are continuous upward pressures on the private rental market due to our strong economic and demographic growth and the restricted supply available.  Affordability remains a significant issue in the rental market.  The findings presented in the report referred to acknowledge that Ireland’s performance in terms of high housing costs for market...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee (NTACC) was established under the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 to advise the Minister in relation to Traveller accommodation issues generally. In line with the commitment in Rebuilding Ireland, and reflecting the disappointing level of overall funding drawdown in recent years, the Housing Agency, in 2017,...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 630 and 631 together. The information sought in relation to average construction costs for social housing is currently being updated within my Department and will be provided to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

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

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the funding provided to each local authority in 2018 in respect of social housing acquisition programmes is set out in the following table.  The figures include the funding provided for social housing acquisitions by approved housing bodies, which is provided directly to the local authorities by my Department who, in turn, advance the funding to the approved housing...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Capital Investment Programme (SHCIP) is the funding mechanism used to deliver direct local authority Part V homes.  The Part V related expenditure under that programme in 2017 was €9.9m, with expenditure of €49.3m in 2018.  It should be noted that the delivery of homes does not always arise in the same year as expenditure being...

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

Eoghan Murphy: As housing authorities, local authorities are responsible for the identification of the social housing need in their area, for the development of appropriate responses to the need identified, and to create and support sustainable communities.  My Department is supporting local authorities and approved housing bodies (AHBs) in the provision of social housing across build, lease and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Limerick City and County Council provide a highly effective transactional shared service on behalf of all local authorities in the administration of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme. The HAP Shared Services Centre (SSC) manages all HAP related rental transactions for the tenant, local authority and landlord. Once a HAP application has been received and confirmed as valid...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not hold the information requested. Applications for social housing support are assessed by the relevant local authority who are solely responsible for the processing of such applications, 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...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, introduced the Rent Predictability Measure to moderate rent increases in those parts of the country where rents are highest and rising, resulting in great difficulty for households finding affordable accommodation.  In Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs), rents can only increase by a maximum of 4% annually. The measure...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities, including Galway City Council, have submitted to my Department details of their work proposals and related funding requirements for the Disabled Persons Grants scheme for 2019. I understand that the property referred to is part of Galway City Council's overall proposal. The headline funding requirements of all local authorities, including Galway City Council, are...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 639 to 643, inclusive, together. Local authorities have been undertaking an ambitious programme of insulation retrofitting on the least energy efficient social housing homes since 2013, with funding support from my Department. Over €128 million of exchequer support has been provided for this work to end-2018, which has improved the energy efficiency and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: 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 limits for each local authority, in different bands...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The latest quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Report shows that almost 5,000 social homes were under construction at end Q4 2018, of which 2,345 were in the local authorities' own build programme. It will be these schemes that will form the bulk of the housing delivery over the course of 2019, although further projects will continue to be...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Rebuilding Ireland is utilising all available resources at national and local level to maximise the delivery of social housing, as quickly and efficiently as possible. More than 50,000 social housing homes will be delivered by the end of 2021. These new homes will be delivered by both local authorities themselves and working in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). In the interest...