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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1381 and 1382 together. Social housing construction is funded under a range of different initiatives such as local authority construction, turnkey developments, rapid delivery and regeneration programmes and through direct construction and turnkey developments by approved housing bodies.  Since the commencement of Rebuilding Ireland in 2016, almost...

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

Eoghan Murphy: To qualify for HAP, a household must be qualified for social housing support by their local authority, which means the household must qualify to go on the local authority housing waiting list. HAP tenants find their own accommodation in the private rented market and are advised that this accommodation should be within the HAP rent limits provided to them by the local authority. The limits...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding to local authorities for the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability in respect of private houses, with funding of €73.75 million being made available for 2020.  Information for the years 2016-2018, showing the numbers of grants funded and the amounts provided to Westmeath and Longford County Councils, is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1385 and 1386 together. The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a form of social housing support for people who have a long-term housing need. It is available in all local authority areas and its introduction ensures that all social housing supports can be accessed through the local authorities. HAP will replace Rent Supplement (RS) for those...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In 2018, I published updated Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments Guidelines for Planning Authorities, as Ministerial Guidance under Section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended), following an extensive public consultation process.  The updated guidelines set out policy in relation to a range of apartment formats needed to meet the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The primary objective of the legislative changes introduced last year in relation to the regulation of short-term letting sector through the planning code is to help address its impact on the supply of private rented accommodation, particularly in urban centres of high housing demand i.e. rent pressure zones. The planning system facilitates the regulation of such short-term letting uses...

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

Eoghan Murphy: In April 2018 the Department of Finance published the Stability Programme Update for 2018 which was the first set of fiscal projections produced by that Department to incorporate the CSO decision to reclassify the majority of Tier 3 Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) as part of the local government sector. This was an important first step in the Government's assessment as to the impact of the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Acknowledging that renters in Dublin and other major urban centres are facing significant housing access and affordability challenges, the Government is committed to the establishment of a cost rental sector in Ireland. Cost rental is housing which does not include a profit margin and therefore rents can be set at a level that only needs to cover the cost of delivering, managing, and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency (LDA) is currently established as a State body under secondary legislation pending its establishment as a commercial State agency under legislation which it is hoped will be enacted later this year. In line with all commercial and non-commercial State bodies, the LDA is required to comply with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, which is...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1395 and 1396 together. Sites on which public housing is being developed are, in the main, owned by local authorities and, consistent with the Public Spending Code, it is a matter for them as Sponsoring Agencies for such public investment projects to analyse the delivery options. Any option proposed by a local authority for the delivery of public housing,...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The expenditure by my Department in 2019 on external consultants was some €1.2 million.  Information on an average hourly rate is not readily available in respect of the range of projects concerned and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time and work. Consultancy service providers are only engaged by the Department where specific expertise is required...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines in line with the “preferred draft approach” which was announced in June 2017 by the then Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, in conjunction with the then Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. The review is addressing a number of key...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The LDA was established on an interim basis in September 2018, by way of an Establishment Order made under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies Act) 1971, pending the enactment of primary legislation when it will be established as a commercial State agency. At present, funding is provided to the LDA through my Department's Vote to meet its operational costs as well as initial...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The only private house grants of the type referred to, available through my Department, are the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Grant Schemes. The Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability is available to assist in the carrying out of works for eligible households, which are reasonably necessary for the purposes of rendering a private...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1031 and 1055 together. My Department provides funding to local authorities to support a broad range of housing programmes, including the delivery of new social housing homes through build, acquisition and leasing and programmes which support maintenance, upgrades and improvement works to existing social housing stock. The funding provided to Sligo County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 24 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004-2019 defines market rent for the purposes of rent setting and rent review to mean, in relation to the tenancy of a dwelling, the rent which a willing tenant not already in occupation would give and a willing landlord would take for the dwelling, in each case on the basis of vacant possession being given and having regard to the other terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency was established on an interim basis in September 2018, by way of an Establishment Order made under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies Act) 1971, pending the enactment of primary legislation when it will be established as a commercial State agency. The day to day management of the LDA is matter for the Chief Executive and his management team...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Last year, I announced details of the measures being funded through my Department under the Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021. Local Authorities were invited to submit their bids for the funding of schemes or projects in their functional areas. Galway County Council made a number of bids under Measure 4 – New Group Water Schemes – including a proposal for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Maximum rent limits for the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme are set for each housing authority area by the Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2017, which are available on the Irish Statute Book website at the following link: . The HAP limits were agreed in conjunction with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP). In reviewing rent limits,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1036 and 1040 together. The sales prices of the individual homes delivered following the construction of LIHAF grant funded facilitating infrastructure are not systematically collated by my Department. However, in the case of the 10 homes referred to in the Ratoath LIHAF project, I can confirm that the agreement between Meath County Council and the...