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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Oct 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.  As with the previous local authority loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is available to first-time...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced in June 2018 to provide a statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. Regulations in respect of the making of Schemes of Priority were signed on 12 March 2019, and these were issued to local authorities on 22 March 2019.  The purpose of a Scheme of Priority is to set out the affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has been in regular contact with relevant planning authorities regarding the implementation of the new short-term letting legislation, both before and subsequent to its commencement on 1 July 2019.   In order for the new legislation to have the desired effect and achieve its objective of returning much-needed accommodation to the long-term rental market, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 335 and 336 together. My Department has not, either directly or through local authorities or bodies under our aegis, funded any individual projects in the past five years that cost €100 million or more. Neither does it anticipate having any such projects funded either directly or through local authorities over the next five years. ...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am very sorry, but the Deputy is incorrect in his understanding of the Land Development Agency on a number of fronts. To correct him on a couple of the issues that he raised, the LDA was established a year ago under the Corporate Bodies Act.

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: An interim board is in place, but a permanent CEO was appointed recently. In the past year it has been given the capital to begin to proceed to progress work on sites, which is what it has been doing. Eight sites are coming across to the Land Development Agency. Legislation to establish it on a statutory footing which is not necessary to enable it to do its work but which is important will...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is about planning and development, but the Deputy would not know anything about them, would he? He never did it when he was in government.

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is good to see that the Deputy is here all the same. He is welcome in the House.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant Administration (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Water Conservation Grant was introduced in 2015, as part of the Government's drive to promote increased conservation and more sustainable use of water services. The grant was administered by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, on behalf of my Department, and was available on a universal basis to principal private residences for which a completed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Responsibility for the advancement of proposals for the development of the Cork Events Centre remains, in the first instance, a matter for Cork City Council.  It was agreed in the context of Budget 2020 that responsibility at central government level would transfer to my Department.  Discussions in relation to the transfer process are underway.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Disabled Persons Grants (DPG) Scheme applies to works that are necessary to address the needs of older people or people with a disability in local authority housing. This may involve minor adaptations such as stair-lifts, grabs-rails, showers, wet-rooms, ramps etc. It also provides funding for more major adaptations such as extensions, for example in the case of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Consultancy service providers are only engaged by my Department where specific expertise is required which is not available in the organisation at the relevant time. The consultancy expenditure by the Department in 2018, together with the purpose of each service engagement and the expenditure programme concerned, are set out in the following table.  It is the general...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Government Departments regularly review expenditure programmes under the established system of value for money and policy reviews (VFMs). Departments also undertake the related focused policy assessments (FPAs) as part of this initiative. In the period under question my Department was engaged in conducting one VFM review of Exchequer spending on the provision of homeless services and one FPA...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department's role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level.  Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with the housing authorities. Decisions on the range...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 646 and 648 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Choice Based Letting (CBL) is a method whereby available social housing stock is let by being openly advertised by local authorities to persons on the social housing waiting list. This allows qualified applicants to 'register an interest' in available homes.  Applicants can act on their own initiative to respond to adverts and express an interest in dwellings that they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitment given in the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness, a review of the operation of the first 12 months of the Tenant Purchase (Incremental) Scheme has been completed and a full report has been prepared setting out findings and recommendations.  I intend to bring a comprehensive package of social housing reform measures to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department was invited by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to meet with, and brief,  EUROSTAT in relation to the Land Development Agency (LDA) as part of a routine EUROSTAT European Deficit Procedure (EDP) Dialogue visit to EU member states on 26 February 2019. In relation to the classification of the LDA, it is understood that the CSO will not take a definitive view...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commencement of Legislation (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 2 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 commenced on enactment of the Act, on 19 July 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Increasing the supply of housing, private and public, is essential to address many of the core challenges in the housing sector.  Housing supply lead indicators provide a basis for confidence that there will be continued expansion. The rolling annual total of planning permission for residential dwellings has exceeded 30,000 units for the first time since early 2010, up more than 21%...