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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The licensing of street furniture and other appliances on public roads and footpaths is governed by section 254 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), and associated Regulations. Under Article 201(b) of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, this includes the provision of tables and chairs outside a hotel, restaurant, public house, or other...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) supports the delivery of social housing by providing financial support to local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for the leasing of houses and apartments. The SHCEP budget funds the ongoing current costs of homes delivered using a variety of different delivery mechanisms through the Housing Leasing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In 2019, I announced details of the new Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021. This included an improved funding scheme for individual wells and work on the development of this scheme is at an advanced stage. The changes that I have approved to the individual wells grant scheme are as follows: - A maximum grant for  rehabilitation works of €3,000 (which represents an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy, published in July 2018, strives to provide a targeted, effective and co-ordinated approach to identifying and tackling residential vacancy across the country, drawing together all of the strands of ongoing work into one document.  The Housing Agency, in addition to providing vital supports to local authorities in identifying and reactivating...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, direct capital funding is provided to the Housing Agency to facilitate the acquisition of suitable portfolios of properties for social housing from financial institutions and investors. An acquisitions fund of €70 million, which is a revolving fund, was established with effect from 1 January 2017 with the objective of acquiring some 1,600 units over the period...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) was developed to assist private property owners and local authorities or approved housing bodies (AHBs) to harness the accommodation potential that exists in certain vacant dwellings across Ireland. RLS has both capital and current funding streams. The capital element funds the repairs to the property; the current element funds the lease payment to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments for social housing use, including delivery through the Buy and Renew Scheme. Activity in this regard is largely delegated to local authorities so they can respond...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department introduced the Enhanced Long Term Social Housing Leasing Scheme in order to target newly built or yet to be built houses and apartments for long term leasing, and to target property developers and investors who are in a position to deliver housing at a reasonable scale in order to supplement delivery under Pillar 2 of Rebuilding Ireland.  The Enhanced Leasing Scheme places...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Voids Programme funded by my Department, 7,333 vacant social housing homes were returned to productive use in the period 2016-2019. This figure does not include homes which were returned to productive use by local authorities using funding from their own resources. See the following table for full breakdown by local authority of the units funded by my Department: ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes information on the overall number and value of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns. Local authority approval means that an official letter of offer has been sent to a borrower (and therefore relates to a specific property and loan amount). Information on the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan for 2019, including the number and value of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Delivery of more affordable homes to rent or buy is a priority for the Government.  My Department has developed a range of measures to assist local authorities to provide homes of this nature, which are being utilised at the two sites referred to by the Deputy. The regeneration of Poolbeg West is the next logical step in transforming the Docklands area, given its strategic location...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The finalised General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill was approved by Government in December 2019. Further policy work is continuing on the development of certain aspects of the proposed regime and intensive engagements in that regard are ongoing with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, who are leading the development of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme is designed to deliver approximately 1,500 social housing homes in total, via three bundles. The first bundle, which comprises six sites, will provide 534 homes across the Greater Dublin Area, as set out in the following table. Site (Local Authority) Number of Homes  Ayrfield, Malahide Road...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1339 and 1380 together. The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme, which came into operation on 1 January 2016, is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme. To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable income of €15,000 per...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 projects received final LIHAF approval with an overall...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1341 and 1390 together. I acknowledge the very stressful circumstances which owners and residents face when their homes are affected by construction defects. My colleague Minister English along with officials from my Department, met with the groups referred to by the Deputies earlier this year in relation to their proposals, which I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 3 of the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 - 2019 provides that those Acts apply to every dwelling the subject of a tenancy, subject to certain exemptions. Section 3(2)(g)  provides that those Acts do not apply to a dwelling within which the landlord also resides. Section 37 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019  extended the application of the Residential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes a monthly report on homelessness. The monthly report is based on data provided by housing authorities and produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS).  The report captures details of individuals utilising State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities.  Official homeless reports are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1344 and 1345 together. The Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks in Construction (Remediation) (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2020 have been made under sections 2 and 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 to provide for a grant scheme of financial assistance to support affected homeowners in the counties of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy:  In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated public health restrictions introduced by the Government, three Orders have been made to date under Section 251A of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), disapplying the period from 29 March 2020 to 23 May 2020 inclusive (i.e. a period of 8 weeks or 56 days) in the calculation of any appropriate period,...