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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (11 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. In order to be eligible for HAP support, a household must first qualify for social housing support and be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Public sector employment policy is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. In accordance with the Department of Finance Circular E100/8/82 of 23 December 2010, relating to “Starting Pay on Recruitment from Open Competitions”, my Department issued Circular letter E.L. 02/2011 to local authorities. This circular outlines that offers of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Ervia defined benefit pension scheme is closed to new members. Historically, Ervia provided retirement benefits for the majority of its employees through defined benefit schemes . As part of a programme of pay and pension reform agreed with staff and unions, Ervia closed the defined benefit scheme to new entrants with effect from February 2014 and agreed, subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 210 and 217 together. A risk adjustment is included in the Public Sector Benchmark (PSB) for Bundle 1 of the Social Housing PPP Programme. This PSB was compiled in full accordance with Department of Finance and Department of Public Expenditure guidance. The guidance clearly states the public sector benchmark should include the whole life cost,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines.  The review is addressing a number of key aspects including sound or noise, visual amenity setback distances, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. As part of the overall review, a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 (the Act) introduced new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments (SHDs) 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 Pleanála (the Board) for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 214 and 215 together. Under Action 18 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector published in December 2016, a Working Group was established, involving representatives of all major public stakeholders with a policy interest in short-term lettings, to consider measures aimed at facilitating the short-term letting of accommodation within permanent residences...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is provided by local authorities in accordance with the Housing (Rebuilding Ireland Home Loans) Regulations 2018, which broadly set out the eligibility criteria to avail of the loans as well as the obligations of the local authorities and duties of borrowers in respect of the Scheme. In accordance with the regulations, as Minister, I have issued a statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The information sought is not readily available in the format requested and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time and work. However, details of the official engagements attended by myself and the current Ministers of State in my Department, including events of the kind referred to, are published in the form of Ministerial Diaries on my Department's website at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 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 lender.   The HFA borrowed €200 million to fund the scheme, and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (11 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: Approved Housing Bodies (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Approval in principle for a development of social homes by an approved housing body (AHB), at the location  in question, was given a number of years ago, but the project did not proceed. Funding not utilised on a particular project is not ring-fenced if the project does not proceed.  However, it is open to the local authority or an AHB to bring forward a new proposal...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 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 lender.  Local authorities were issued with allocations for mortgage...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has no record of awarding any contracts to this company over the past seven years.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In respect of private residential developments, the issue of restricting property ownership is generally not a matter for the planning authority, as their prime concern is the appropriate design layout and impact on the spatial development of an area. In relation to developments that specifically apply for permission as long term build to rent developments under the 2018  Sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In August 2017, I requested all local authorities to designate vacant home officers to co-ordinate local actions to address vacancy in their functional areas and also to undertake local vacancy surveys in order to identify - through their Vacant Homes Action Plans - priority "vacancy hot-spot areas" and properties that can be quickly brought back into residential use. Each local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he or she is responsible. My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of local government sector employment levels. To this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 17, after "Act" to insert "(other than section 27)". I acknowledge that this group of amendments on short-term letting, while well publicised in the media in recent months and subject to review by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, are a new element to the Bill as introduced. I will not go through the strategy...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Where someone is an accidental landlord and now has a second property, they must regularise the letting. In a rent pressure zone, it could not be a short-term letting but would have to go to a traditional long-term letting. Outside of rent pressure zones, it would not have a material impact on a change of circumstances.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: If it is their principal private residence, under these changes, it is only allowed if it is home sharing, that is a room in which the owner is living, or else the full property capped at 90 days.