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Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his questions. On the quality of emergency accommodation, we brought in a new quality standards framework last summer, which was put together with the NGOs and local authorities and rolled out across Dublin. It is now to become the national standard. What we have seen in this crisis, because we have decongregated heavily congregated settings, is outcomes for...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: With regard to public land being only for public housing, some of the sites we have as public land are huge. For example, the Central Mental Hospital site in Dundrum is massive. I do not think it is fair that the people who would not be able to avail of a particular scheme would not be able to buy a new home that might be built there. As many as 2,500 new homes could be on that great site...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the follow-up questions. On the overcrowding point, I am aware additional accommodation has been secured for those working in the health sector who not only need to self-isolate but need to separate from the people they are living with because of the work they do. If the Deputy is aware of any case of someone who has not been able to secure this type of accommodation...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for those questions. I also thank the Deputy for acknowledging the good measures that have been taken. From talking to those on the front lines, in the NGOs and in the local authorities I know they are doing everything they can. It is admirable. They did it anyway all the time and once again they are stepping up in this crisis. As a result of their work there...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I apologise to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I forgot my time limit and I was not able to answer some of the points he made about Brian, Anthony and others. I ask the Deputy to contact me offline if he could. That has worked before in the past. I shall now turn to Deputy Murphy's points about the RTB. Because of what is happening during this emergency period there has been a big decrease in...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: It is not my view that people's rights are being infringed by these temporary measures, and they are temporary and are happening based on the health advice we have at the moment because of the current pandemic.

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not like to comment on matters unless I have had a proper chance to think them through so I might not respond as directly as I would like to on the matters the Deputy raised about the banks. I made a comment to Deputy Ó Ríordáin about my experience with the banks in the banking inquiry where they told us their culture had changed and what subsequently emerged had been...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: This is the first time I have ever been asked about military accommodation. It is not something the Department deals with as it comes under the remit of the Department of Defence. We have been looking at different barracks in Dublin city, which have large tracts of land, and wondering about what uses they may or may not have if the military were to give them up or whether there could be...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy will not know this but my grandfather is an O'Sullivan from Adrigole. I know the area well enough, but not as well as I would like. I was due to go down there again to look at social housing provision in Castletownbere and on Bere Island and to see how we could use public money to help repopulate parts of our country in line with the national planning framework and what we want...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his questions. While An Bord Pleanála falls under my Department, its judgments are independent of me. I cannot get involved in its judgments or decisions. I do not agree with the Deputy's interpretation of Project Ireland 2040 and the national planning framework. Further iterations of the regional spatial and economic strategies have been agreed. It is a...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his questions. No doubt there will be lessons that Departments can share with others. We have experts working in health, in homelessness, in care provision, in different types of treatments, and in the provision of food, all of these things. It is one of the benefits we have in the public sector, in that there is real expertise there and they really have led the way....

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The short-term letting, as the Deputy said, is absolutely crucial, as is the further regulation and keeping as many units of accommodation as we can.

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy McNamara is very welcome back to the Dáil. I have not had an opportunity to speak to him either. I agree with the point on the difficulty in bringing derelict homes up to the right standard for living in. We can make changes here, of course we can. We need to be careful that in making those changes we are then not criticised for lowering standards, but it makes absolutely...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1214, 1239, 1244, 1245 and 1279 together. The role of my Department in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of local authorities in addressing homelessness at local or regional level. Responsibility for the provision of emergency accommodation and related services...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1215 and 1249 together. As an initiative of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is primarily designed to fund the provision of public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical infrastructure blockages and enable housing developments to be built on key sites at scale. 30...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Pursuant to the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006, the Property Registration Authority (PRA) is the registering authority in relation to property registration in Ireland and, subject to the aforementioned Act, is independent in the performance of its functions. Arrangements have been put in place by all State bodies under the aegis of my Department to facilitate the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1217 and 1218 together. There are no funding or grant schemes of the type referred to as private companies do not provide social housing directly. Funding is provided to local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for social housing through which they can, in certain circumstances, acquire or lease housing built by private companies in order to use it...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: As the provision of all hard-copy newspapers to my Department is operated as a single service with one invoice covering all titles, a breakdown by publication is not possible. The total spent on all media subscriptions is as follows:- 2017 2018 2019 2020 1 Newspapers €6,173 €8,009 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes statistics on the delivery of social housing on a quarterly basis, including the total number of acquisitions provided for social housing. This data is provided by the 31 local authorities as the lead delivery agents and then validated by my Department and tracked against overall targets. Acquisitions may be delivered through a variety of mechanisms: - Local...