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

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area are set out in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The most recent summary, conducted in June 2019, shows that 68,693 households were assessed as qualified for and being in need of social housing support. This represents a decrease of 3,165 households or 4.4% on the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is a flexible and immediate housing support that is now available to all eligible households throughout the State. Details of the number of active tenancies and the average monthly landlord payment by local authority area at the end of Quarter 4 2019 are set out in the table below. Local Authority Average Landlord Payment ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Commitments were included in the Government's Strategy for the Rental Sector and National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy, to examine the treatment under the Nursing Home Support Scheme’s (or Fair Deal Scheme's) financial assessment of income from a person’s principal private residence (PPR), where they move into long-term residential care. These commitments reflected an intent to...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The right of local authorities to set and collect rents on their dwellings is contained in section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. The making or amending of such schemes, subject to broad principles laid down by my Department, is an executive function and each local authority has its own separate differential rent scheme or schemes in operation. As I have no function in relation to the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I understand that the digitisation of the Property Registration Authority (PRA) map record took place between December 2005 and August 2010. During this period, approximately 2.5 million registered land parcels, comprising approximately 15 million line entities, were digitised from 36,000 PRA paper map sheets. The project involved much more than transferring registered land parcels from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: A claim to register rights of the kind referred to can be made to the Property Registration Authority (PRA) under Section 49A of the Registration of Title Act 1964. Further information on the Prescriptive Easements/Profit-a-Prendre scheme operated by the PRA is available on its Practice Direction entitled Registration of Easements and Profits-a-Prendre Acquired by Prescription Under Section...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Government approved the merger of Galway City Council and Galway County Council on 18 June 2018. However, the elements of the Local Government Bill 2018 that provided for this merger were not ultimately passed by the Oireachtas. At the current time, all local authorities are experiencing financial challenges. In order to support the local government sector generally, my Department...

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

Eoghan Murphy: In 2020, total funding of €73.75 million is available for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Scheme, in respect of private houses. This is made up of €59 million Exchequer funding, which is an increase of some 3.5% on the 2019 provision, with the balance of €14.75 million being contributed by the local authorities. Increasing...

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

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 the individuals concerned maintain their tenancies. The National Implementation Plan for Housing First was published in September 2018. The Plan includes an overall target of 663 tenancies in the period...

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

Eoghan Murphy: An increase in the rate of Employer PRSI from 11.05% to 15.75% for staff in my Department who pay a Class A1 PRSI contribution would cost an additional €13,276 for the portion of salaries in excess of €100,000.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1280 and 1282 together. My Department has supported local authorities in the acquisition of second hand properties for social housing purposes on the basis that the priority under Rebuilding Ireland has always been on newly constructed homes and that acquiring existing properties should be focused on priority situations, while ensuring that such activity...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL) was launched on 1 February 2018. When the RIHL was initially being developed, it was estimated that the drawdown of loans under the scheme would be approximately €200 million over three years. The RIHL proved to be more successful than initially anticipated and following discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, an...

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

Eoghan Murphy: There are a number of variables involved in estimating the cost of providing homes for social housing purposes, such as the form of delivery, size of unit, land, financing mechanism, location, etc. In terms of construction and 'all-in' costs, the national averages as sought across various sized units, based on full capital costs, are set out in the following tables. Houses ...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has operated an Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme for local authority social housing since 2013 and data below is in respect of that programme. Data in respect of the broader housing stock, for example with support from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. The local...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Over the period 2016 to end Quarter 3 2019, over 90,000 additional households across the country had their housing needs met through a Rebuilding Ireland supported scheme. Detailed statistics in relation to social housing delivery are published on a quarterly basis and the most recent data, up to Q3 2019, are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Data to end...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1287 to 1290, inclusive, together. Tenants are required to pay rent to their landlord during the COVID-19 emergency period and, in the event of tenants having difficulty doing so, they are encouraged to engage with their landlords at the earliest opportunity. They should also engage with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: With effect from 27 March 2020, new emergency measures were introduced into law to protect tenants during the COVID-19 emergency period. Tenants cannot be forced to leave their rental accommodation during this period, other than in exceptional circumstances. Initially, these emergency legislative provisions will last for a period of 3 months, but they may be extended if the Government...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2019 set out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants in the private rented and approved housing body sectors. The Acts apply to every dwelling that is the subject of a tenancy, subject to a limited number of exceptions. The Acts make no reference to animals. Any house rules that might be agreed between a landlord and a tenant at the start of a...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under Project Ireland 2040, including the National Planning Framework (NPF), the Government has taken a lead on moving away from development sprawl to more compact urban growth as a key mechanism to support proper planning and sustainable development as well as action on climate change and congestion. Project Ireland 2040 restates the commitment to implement statutory planning guidelines on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Limerick City and County Council provide a highly effective transactional shared service on behalf of all local authorities in the administration of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme. The HAP Shared Services Centre (SSC) manages all HAP related rental transactions for the tenant, local authority and landlord. Once a HAP application has been received and confirmed as valid by the...