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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I have been there.

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine is a watershed moment for all democracies across the world. Putin’s war of devastation has thrown down the gauntlet to us to stand by our values and live by our best traditions of decency and fairness. Ireland is not a global military power but we are a humanitarian one and we can give badly-needed compassionate refuge to those...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: That is not true. That was a bit of spin from the Deputy's colleague beside him.

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: It never happened.

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: That never happened.

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy should tell her friends to stop objecting to housing all over the country.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Russia’s illegal and immoral war on Ukraine has forced more than 5.5 million Ukrainian civilians to flee their homes and seek refuge in EU and other neighbouring States. It is anticipated 10 million may ultimately leave Ukraine, with more than 100,000 of these possibly arriving in Ireland. This will present the State with a challenge of unprecedented immediacy and magnitude, requiring...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of Covid-19 and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease, the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 provided for a temporary moratorium on tenancy terminations, other than in exceptional and limited cases during the emergency period...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I am very much aware of the issue that Deputy Ó Laoghaire has raised. The Ballincollig-Carrigaline Local Electoral Area (LEA) was designated a Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) on 27 January 2017 under section 24 of the Residential Tenancies Acts (2004-2021). New Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts were signed into law on 31 January 2019 for Cork City and County (which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: 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. The Regulations prescribe maximum net income limits for each local authority, in different bands according to the area...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is responsible for meeting the immediate and short-term accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from the conflict in Ukraine. Meanwhile, my Department is focusing on the medium and long-term accommodation challenges and is leading cross-government efforts through a Housing Taskforce established by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Programme for Government commits to ensuring that Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) levels are adequate to support vulnerable households, while we increase the supply of social housing. Maximum rent limits for HAP were set for each housing authority area in 2016, in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection (DSP). In reviewing the rent limits, my Department worked closely with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Households wishing to obtain social housing support from a local authority or an approved housing body (AHB) must first apply to the relevant local authority for a social housing assessment. Where the household is deemed qualified for support, it is placed on the housing authority’s waiting list and offers of suitable accommodation are made in accordance with the authority’s...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 75, 77, 78 and 81 together. Housing for All – A New Housing Plan for Ireland was published in September 2021 and, as part of a broad suite of social housing reforms, committed to reviewing income eligibility for social housing. The review, which examined, inter alia, the efficiency of the current banding model and income limits applicable to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The detailed advancement of housing and other works under the Cork North West Quarter Regeneration (CNWQR) programme is a matter, in the first instance, for Cork City Council. The Cork City Northwest Regeneration Masterplan & Implementation Report was published in 2011. The strategy outlined a departure from previous policy, with a proposal to carry out wholesale demolition of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is responsible for meeting the immediate and short-term accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from the conflict in Ukraine. Meanwhile, my Department is focusing on the medium and long-term accommodation challenges and is leading cross-government efforts through a Housing Taskforce established by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: 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 Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Since 2014, Exchequer funding has also been provided through my Department's Voids...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA).  The most recently published summary for all counties, conducted in November 2021, is available at: www.gov.ie/en/publication/f6119-summary-of-social-housing-as sessments-2021-key-findings/

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: On 31 March 2022, my colleague, Heather Humphreys TD, Minister for Rural and Community Development, and I wrote to the chief executives of the local authorities welcoming the establishment of Community Response Forums in every local authority area to coordinate the community-led response in the provision of assistance and support to those arriving into our communities having fled the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Two sets of Regulations which will underpin the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme, made under the provisions of the Affordable Housing Act 2021, were signed by the Minister and came into effect on 13 April 2022. Notice was published in Iris Oifigiúil on 19 March, and the text of the regulations is available on the Irish Statute Book website maintained by the Office of...