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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1185, 1189, 1192 and 1195 together. The delivery of new social housing is a priority for the Government as can be seen in the targeted delivery this year, of 10,000 new social homes through build, acquisition and lease, under Rebuilding Ireland. In addition, the Government's commitment to the delivery of social housing homes is evident from the National...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1186 and 1187 together. My Department publishes a monthly report on homelessness. The monthly report is based on data provided by housing authorities and produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS). The most recently published report, in respect of September 2019, shows that there were a total of 10,397 individuals in emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In March of this year, I wrote to all local authorities setting out their social housing targets for 2019 across all delivery streams. These social housing targets are publicly available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link: . Progress against targets is tracked on a quarterly basis. The most recent report sets out the position at the end of Quarter 2 of 2019 and is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1190, 1197 and 1198 together. The implementation of Rebuilding Ireland is a key Government priority supported by significant annual investment. For 2019 alone, funding of €2.4 billion is being provided for all housing programmes with a further €2.63 billion available in 2020. This investment will see the housing needs of almost 27,400 households...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Like all publicly-funded construction projects, the construction of new social housing must comply with the Government’s Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF), the objectives of which are to ensure cost certainty, value for money and financial accountability. There are nine stages of review in the CWMF, which my Department has streamlined to just four, for social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of planned maintenance programmes and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under the Housing Acts. My Department is supportive of local authorities in bringing vacant social homes back to productive use and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Social housing projects funded by this Department, like all publicly-funded construction projects, must comply with the Government’s Capital Works Management Framework, the objectives of which are to ensure greater cost certainty, better value for money and financial accountability. Also for such projects, the procurement procedures used need to be in line with EU and national...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department receives social housing proposals from local authorities on a continuous basis, in the context of the delivery targets each authority is working towards under Rebuilding Ireland and in the context of the significant funding that is available to support this activity. For 2019 alone, funding of €2.4 billion is being provided for all housing programmes, with a further...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: EPA audits of public drinking water supplies are an important way of checking how Irish Water and local authorities are performing in compliance with Drinking Water Regulations. These regulations provide the EPA with supervisory powers in relation to public water supplies. I am aware of the EPA recommendation in its recent audit report in relation to the incident at the Leixlip...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Leixlip water treatment plant is publicly operated by Fingal County Council through a Service Level Agreement with Irish Water. The EPA report of the audit of the recent incident at the plant, published on 30 October, found that the recommendations of the EPA's previous audit of the plant in March 2019 were not implemented. The audit noted that, in particular, the failure to install...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I will communicate the Deputy's concerns to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross. The national children's hospital has had no impact on funding to local authorities. Indeed, the capital budget for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has increased this year. If there is a particular concern around health and safety on this footbridge, I will speak to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 215 and 216 together. Ballymore Eustace is currently producing water in compliance with water quality standards, it does not feature on the EPA’s remedial action list and is not subject to any water use notices or restrictions. Leixlip water treatment plant is operated by Fingal County Council through a Service Level Agreement on behalf of Irish Water....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties Data (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Both Cavan County Council and Monaghan County Council have prepared a Vacant Homes Action Plan for their administrative areas. In August 2017, I requested all local authorities to designate vacant home officers to co-ordinate local actions to address vacancy and also to undertake local vacancy surveys in order to identify - through their Vacant Homes Action Plans - priority "vacancy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government is firmly committed to public water services remaining in public ownership, as reflected in the Water Services Acts and in the Water Services Policy Statement 2018-2025. This position is consistent with the Report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services (April 2017) which supported the concept of a referendum, while recommending that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am not aware of any social housing units funded under the Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme (CLSS), which have been sold by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). AHBs in general operate as providers of social housing, and their approach is set out in their own internal rules (including Memorandum and Articles of Association). Accordingly, I do not expect that the disposal of their social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. Both our water and wastewater systems require substantial and sustained investment: to bring the systems up to the standards of a modern service; to provide for population growth and to build resilience in the face of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Guidelines (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is my first opportunity to speak in the Chamber since it has been refurbished and it is fantastic to be back. I accidentally went to the wrong room because one creates new habits and they stick in one's mind. I have a written reply but, if it is okay with the Senator, I will provide him with a copy and not read it out. I would like to speak more specifically to the matters he addressed,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Guidelines (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: He wants to ensure that we build the right types of homes, for the right people, in the right places. It is not just about increasing the supply of any type of home being built but rather about building the right types of homes, for the right people, in the right places. With Project Ireland 2040 and the national planning framework, we have tried to make decisions at a national level as to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Guidelines (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I share the Senator's vision of sustainable house building. Let us continue the debate on the ground in Castletroy.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh (Atógáil) - Questions on Promised Legislation (Resumed) (7 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The designation of rent pressure zones happens according to the legislation and the process set out therein, whereby following a quarterly index report from the Residential Tenancies Board recommendation is made to the Housing Agency in regard to what inflation has occurred in a particular area following which a recommendation is made to me, as Minister,...