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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency Funding (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Rebuilding Irelandprovides for the establishment of dedicated delivery structures, such as Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) sector to access Housing Finance Agency (HFA) funding. The HFA held bilateral meetings with each of the seven Universities to introduce the HFA and to assess potential demand and timelines to delivery. During the meetings, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides for the introduction of 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, including a set of standardised income disregards, whilst retaining the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Agency Portfolio (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A key priority in the Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is to provide direct capital funding to the Housing Agency to facilitate the acquisition of suitable portfolios of properties for social housing from financial institutions and investors (Actions 1.1, 2.5 and 5.6). An acquisitions fund of €70 million, which is a revolving fund, was established with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: On 8 February this year, I announced details of the measures being funded through my Department under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021. In parallel to the announcement local authorities were invited to submit bids for funding schemes or projects in their functional areas, with the deadline for receipt of proposals set as 14 March 2019. The new multi-annual programme...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (3 Dec 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. Housing Agency recommendations are then considered by the Credit Committee in each local authority, which issues loan approvals. Each local authority must have in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 631 and 632 together. 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. The 2011 Regulations prescribe maximum net...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under the Housing Acts. Exchequer funding is also provided through my Department's Voids Programme to support local authorities in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: On 8 February this year, I announced details of the measures being funded through my Department under the Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021. Local authorities were subsequently requested to submit their bids for the funding of schemes or projects in their functional areas. An Expert Panel was put in place to support the Department in its bids evaluation process. In...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021. This funding will provide for infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 more affordable homes on local authority lands. SSF is being made available in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Valuation Acts 2001-2015 provide for the valuation of all commercial and industrial property for rating purposes. The Commissioner of Valuation is independent in the performance of his functions under the Acts and the making of valuations for rating is his sole responsibility. As Minister, I have no function in decisions in this regard. There is a distinct separation of function...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) is a flagship element of Project Ireland 2040. The URDF was established to support more compact and sustainable development, through the regeneration and rejuvenation of Ireland’s five cities and other large towns, in line with the objectives of the National Planning Framework and NDP. This is to enable a greater proportion of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the Bills sponsored by my Department that have been enacted in the period November 2013 to July 2019 were made available in response to Question No. 279 on 10 October, 2019. There has been one further Bill enacted in the period July 2019 to date: - Citizens’ Assemblies Act 2019 (No. 25 of 2019) – enacted on 23 July 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), from 2019 to 2021, to provide infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 more affordable homes on local authority lands. This funding is being made available in areas where local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (3 Dec 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 recently finalised and a full report has been prepared setting out findings and recommendations. I intend to bring a comprehensive package of social housing reform measures...

Microbeads (Prohibition) Bill 2019: Order for Report Stage (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Microbeads (Prohibition) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: What we are doing in respect of microbeads is significant. We are bringing forward a ban on microbeads and being more ambitious than our EU partners. Due to the changes we are making, our EU partners will be playing catch-up with us. To protect the environment, including our watercourses and marine environment, and as part of the wider programme of climate action, it is significant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Consultation Process (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the public consultations held by my Department in 2018 and to date in 2019 are available on the Department's website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/search/archived/current/type/public-consu ltations. In addition, there have been ten public consultations in the period 2018-2019, not included on the website.  Eight of these were specific to a single county and two...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Rebuilding Ireland commits to deliver more than 50,000 social homes by the end of 2021 through a combination of delivery mechanisms. These include build, acquired and leased homes to be delivered either directly by local authorities, or in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies. New build homes may also be delivered through turn-key arrangements with private developers or delivered...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (4 Dec 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: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Review of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS), also known as the Fair Deal Scheme, was published by the Minister for Health in July 2015.  A Working Group is overseeing the implementation of its recommendations, including any legislative changes that may be required. Action 17 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, undertakes to examine...