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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Dismissals (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There have been no dismissals or suspensions in my Department in any of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitment under Action 2.9 of Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, a dedicated Housing Delivery Office (HDO) was established within my Department, in August 2016, to support the accelerated delivery of housing across the social and private sectors, and tenure spectrum, in an integrated and timely manner. Working with the broader Housing and Planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is not directly involved in housing procurement and as such there are no staff employed in such procurement within the Department. The procurement of housing as social homes is a matter for the Local Authorities and Approved Housing Bodies. The Housing Delivery Division in my Department supports a significant number of actions under the Government's Action Plan on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (20 Nov 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: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: From the introduction of the Mortgage to Rent (MTR) scheme in 2012 to end October 2019, a total of 4,984 cases had been submitted.  Of these 4,984 cases, 3,253 were ineligible or terminated during the process. Of the remaining cases submitted, 606 have been completed and the remaining 1,125 are actively being progressed.  The number of completed MTR cases is increasing every...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Statistics in relation to social housing stock are published by the National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC) in their annual reports on Performance Indicators in Local Authorities. These reports provide a range of information in relation to social housing stock, including the average time taken to re-tenant a dwelling.  The most recent report, relating to 2018, is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, the management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including the implementation of planned maintenance programmes and carrying out of responsive repairs and pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, is a matter for each individual local authority. Local authority housing stock becomes vacant and is refurbished and re-let on a continuous...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Acknowledging that renters in Dublin and other major urban centres are currently facing significant housing access and affordability challenges, the Government is committed to the introduction of a Cost Rental sector in Ireland. My Department is currently developing a national policy approach for this new form of rental tenure. This work includes the development of two pathfinder...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Data (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department engages with An Bord Pleanála on an ongoing basis to ensure that it has the appropriate resources to perform its broad range of functions. The Board currently has a complement of 10 members and has over 160 other staff employed. Section 116 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), provides for the payment to the Board in each financial year of a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Standards (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, set out a series of measures to be introduced to ensure the quality of private rental accommodation by strengthening the applicable standards and improving the inspection and enforcement systems. The Strategy acknowledged the overall low rates of inspection of the private rental stock and low rates of compliance, as well as the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Nov 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: Local Authority Assets (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Aggregation Scheme (LAGS) was introduced in 2010, to assist in the gradual unwinding of loans taken out by housing authorities to purchase land for the social and affordable housing investment programme.  This was in cases where loans were due to mature and where it was considered unlikely that land would be developed in the short to medium term. A...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness included the commitment to explore a range of structural, funding and policy supports that could help to increase delivery by AHBs.  In 2016, my Department established an Innovation Fund to support Tier 3 AHBs (i.e. those larger organisations with 300+ homes in their stock) in their development of innovative financial models...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Approved Housing Body (AHB) Services Unit was established in 2017 in accordance with Action 2.14 of Rebuilding Ireland. This unit currently has four staff and provides assistance to my Department, AHBs and Local Authorities to support AHB led delivery. One of the main areas of operation that has been incorporated into the AHB Services Unit is the assessment of AHB Capital...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding to local authorities for the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability in respect of private houses, with funding of €71.25 million allocated for 2019.  Information for the years 2016-2018, showing the numbers of grants funded and the amounts provided to each local authority, is available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: As part of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan, the Major Urban Housing Delivery Sites (MUHDS) programme was launched in November 2016. This initiative provides an administrative framework to support local authorities involved in the delivery of housing in major urban centres in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick.  These key strategic housing sites, details of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department launched the National Taking-in-Charge Initiative (NTICI) in April 2016, to trial new approaches and working methods in supporting and accelerating overall national and local action on the taking-in-charge process of housing estates. Under the terms of the NTICI, which was underpinned by a once-off fund of €10 million, developments subject to valid taking-in-charge...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Project Ireland 2040 (PI2040) is the Government’s long-term, overarching strategy to make Ireland a better country for all its people, integrating for the first time, the national spatial and investment strategies.  The projects under these plans which include roads, schools, primary care centres, housing, sporting and cultural amenities and business activation facilities impact...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has spent €413 (excluding VAT) on bottled water to date in 2019. My Department has not spent anything on disposable coffee cups to date in 2019. Staff were provided with reusable coffee cups this year and and an annual drop in demand of over 12,000 disposable cups is now anticipated at the Custom House alone.   My Department operates an Environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Freedom of Information Data (20 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department published its publication scheme in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2014 and the Model Publication Scheme guidance published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.  The structure of the scheme is set out in the 2016 guidance.  The scheme is available at: . While my Department does not collate the specific detail in the...