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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (4 Dec 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: Housing Assistance Payment Data (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) play a vital role in the provision of housing supports for eligible families and individuals.   The HAP Shared Services Centre (SSC) provides a highly effective transactional service on behalf of all 31 local authorities, and hosts a national HAP tenancy database.  Data provided by the SSC...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Prisoner Welfare (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: One of the commitments made in Rebuilding Ireland, Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is that the State will enhance inter-agency arrangements to ensure that accommodation, welfare and health supports for prisoners are in place prior to their release.  An inter-agency protocol, developed by the Irish Prison Service in consultation with the Health Service Executive, Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Housing First enables homeless individuals with high levels of complex needs to obtain permanent secure accommodation with the provision of intensive housing and health supports to help them maintain their tenancies. The National Implementation Plan for Housing First, published in September 2018, extends the delivery of Housing First nationally, with the introduction of targets for each...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Supporting families and individuals experiencing homelessness is a priority for this Government.  Local authorities and their service delivery partners work with households to identify and secure an exit from homelessness into an independent tenancy. Where appropriate, households are provided with the necessary supports to ensure that they are equipped to sustain a tenancy.  ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 and 266 together. Supporting individuals and families experiencing homelessness is a priority for this Government. Rebuilding Ireland, the Government's Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness includes a range of measures  relating to the provision of emergency accommodation and the range of supports to be provided to households...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not at this time have any Government Bills awaiting Committee stage. The Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies Bill 2019 passed committee stage on 19 November 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There is a grant currently available, which is funded by my Department through the local authorities, for the provision or necessary improvement of an individual water supply in a house.  This is more commonly called the individual or private wells grant. The grant, subject to certain conditions, assists households dependent on these supplies with the costs incurred in providing such a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (4 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department's policy is that the Department's Press Office generally provides photographic services when required.  However, on occasions a service provider is selected from the OGP panel in line with the procurement framework. No photography costs have been incurred from the Ministerial allowance available to me. The information requested by the Deputy on expenditure since 2011 has...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department received 1,493 Freedom of information requests in the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 (to 30 November). The breakdown of these requests is contained on the attached spreadsheet. With regards to the breakdown of requests refused, the information sought is not readily available and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Funding is available to all Local Authorities from my department to acquire homes on a targeted basis for Social Housing use.  Ultimately, it is the local authorities that identify housing need in their area and oversee and prioritise the development of appropriate responses to meet this need. My Department does not prescribe how this is implemented at local authority level.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Agency Data (5 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There are no staff employed on an agency basis in my Department. The details requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department are a matter for the individual bodies concerned.  Arrangements have been put in place by each Agency to facilitate the provision of information by State Bodies directly to members of the Oireachtas.  The contact email address for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (5 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In 2018, bids were invited from public bodies for funding support from the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) either under Category A, for projects that were proposed as being ready to be initiated, or under Category B, as projects that required further consideration and development. Louth County Council was approved URDF support of €476,000 in respect of preliminary...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Meteorological Services (5 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Meteorologists in Met Eireann are recruited through a mix of open and internal competitions.  The open competitions are administered by the Public Appointments Service who absorb their recruitment costs.   The Meteorologist grade is also a promotional grade for Met Eireann staff; internal promotion competitions are run by my officials as part of their duties without any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (5 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 income limits for each local authority, in different bands...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Civil Aviation Regulation (5 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under planning legislation, all development requires planning permission unless it is exempted development.  There is no specific exemption provided for civilian helipads in the Planning and Development Act 2000 as amended, or its associated Planning and Development Regulations. Where a question arises on whether development is or is not development, or is or is not exempted...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The purchase and sale of assets including land, and the subsequent use or disposal of same is a matter for individual local authorities and my Department would not be in a position to comment on same. My Department supports local authorities in the development of their lands for social housing under a wide range of funding schemes and the pipelines of activity are published on a quarterly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Will Deputy Cowen go to the State's bank?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Barry Cowen is all about the party, is he not?

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