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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (27 Jun 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Housing First enables people who may have been homeless and who have high levels of complex needs to obtain permanent secure accommodation, with intensive supports, to help them maintain their tenancies. The National Implementation Plan for Housing First, published in September 2018, contains targets for each local authority, with an overall national target of 663 tenancies to be delivered...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (27 Jun 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland home loan (RIHL) scheme was launched on 1 February of last year. When the scheme was initially being developed, it was estimated that the drawdown of loans would be approximately €200 million over three years. The RIHL has proven to be more successful than initially anticipated, with some €140 million drawn down to the end of March 2019. The first...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 Jun 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The national housing market is complex; it is composed of numerous sub-markets, specific to geographies, tenure types and housing unit characteristics, and involves a range of specific dynamics, particularly the well documented lags between increased demand and the supply response and the links to land, funding availability and construction industry capacity. Given the complexity...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (27 Jun 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding on an annual basis under the Disabled Persons Grants (DPGs) scheme to local authorities for adaptations and extensions to the existing social housing stock to meet the needs of local authority tenants. The scheme applies to works that are necessary to address the needs of older people or people with a disability. This may involve minor adaptations, such as...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputies for their questions. In respect of Deputy Adams’s question, we just passed the legislation referred to by the Tánaiste. This is the legislation to change the qualifying criteria for rent pressure zones. As a result of that, we announced the largest expansion of rent pressure zones today. Nineteen new zones will come in under that. We have also lengthened...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: On the changes that we made around the qualifying criteria, we have made two specific changes. We are seeing more areas come into rent pressure zones as a result of a change we made just last month because of the severe pressures that are being seen outside of places such as Dublin, the greater Dublin area, Cork and Galway.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. I cannot give a definitive date to the Deputy today. As the Deputy will be aware, my officials have been in touch with officials in both Donegal and Mayo to do further work on how we roll out that initial €20 million that has been allocated this year for the scheme.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We are finalising elements of the CIRI Bill currently between myself and the Office of the Attorney General. We are looking at what elements we can include based on the submission we received from the joint Oireachtas committee following the prelegislative consultation.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: They walked away.

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Section 4 of the Act and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, set out various exemptions from the requirement to obtain planning permission. Any such exemptions are subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A service for Oireachtas members was introduced in 2006 through which information can be obtained on the current status of applications to the Property Registration Authority (PRA), such as the case referred to in this question. This provides a speedy, efficient and cost effective system through which the PRA can address such queries. This service can be contacted at .

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

Eoghan Murphy: The overall targets under Rebuilding Ireland for social housing build and acquisition, over the period 2020-2021, are as follows:  2020 2021 Build 7,736 8,907 Acquisition 800 800 Data in relation to 2018-2021 overall targets and 2019 social housing targets on a local authority basis, across all delivery streams under Rebuilding Ireland, can be found on the Rebuilding Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Housing Assistant Payment (HAP) scheme, eligible households source their own accommodation in the private rented sector. It should be noted that a landlord or an agent acting on behalf of a landlord is not legally obliged to enter into a tenancy agreement with a HAP recipient. However, on 1 January 2016, the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 introduced “housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides for the Minister to introduce a national rents framework for social housing tenants. Considerable work has been carried out by my Department in developing a draft of such a framework, which has as its main aim the harmonisation of local authority rents, to ensure that rent schemes are fair and sustainable, prioritise...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 689 and 704 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Addressing homelessness is a priority for the Government. In 2016, the Government published the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness. Rebuilding Ireland is designed to significantly increase the supply of social housing by 50,000 homes in the period to 2021, double the output of overall housing to at least 25,000 homes per annum by 2020, support all tenure types...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area are set out in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). Since 2016, the Summary process has been carried out on an annual basis. The SSHA report includes breakdowns by each local authority across a range of categories. Details on the length of time spent on the record of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: 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. I have asked the Agency to compile figures on the numbers of applications that it has assessed since the scheme began. The most recent figures, as at the end of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: CSO data has confirmed that there were 316 housing completions in Mayo in 2018, which represented an increase of 31% on 2017 levels. Excluding single dwellings the numbers of new dwellings completed totalled 78 in 2018 compared to a total of 50 in 2017. There were also commencement notices for 380 dwellings submitted in Mayo in 2018, which represented an increase of 18% on 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency Funding (2 Jul 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: When the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL) scheme was initially being developed, it was estimated that the drawdown of loans would be approximately €200 million over three years. The RIHL has proven to be more successful than initially anticipated, with some €140 million drawn down to the end of March 2019. The first tranche of funding has not been exhausted. My...