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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: 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: National Planning Framework (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The National Planning Framework (NPF) is the long-term, 20 year strategy for the spatial development of Ireland to promote a better quality of life for all, with sustainable economic growth and an environment of the highest quality as key underlying principles. The National Planning Framework (NPF) published in 2018, replaced the National Spatial Strategy and is the overall spatial planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Advertising (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested relating to advertising and promotion in my Department in 2022 and in January 2023 is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders. Please note that the information requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the individual bodies concerned. Arrangements have been put in place by each...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: There are 13 staff working in my Department’s Communications Team. The team works on a cross-functional and collaborative basis to manage, co-ordinate and develop the Department’s external communications and media relations functions. They also provide communications expertise, advice and support to colleagues in Business Units; develop and maintain the content and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All (published in September 2021) provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030 with the overall objective that every citizen in the State should have access to good quality homes through a steady supply of housing in the right locations, with economic, social and environmental sustainability built into the system. The strategy sets out, over four pathways, a broad suite of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Section 34 of the Residential Tenancies Acts provides that a landlord must state a reason for the termination in any tenancy termination notice (NoT) served, and the termination will not be valid unless that reason relates to one of the following: - the tenant has failed to comply with the obligations (other than the obligation to pay rent) of the tenancy; - the tenant has failed to comply...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Cost Rental was introduced through the Affordable Housing Act 2021. Cost rental is targeted to deliver at least 25% below market level and at households with incomes above the social housing limits, but who cannot afford to purchase or rent their own home on the open market. Cost Rental provides tenants with secure tenancies in sustainable, long-term homes. Under the Cost Rental model, rents...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing to the required 33,000 homes, on average, per year over the next decade. 54,000 affordable home interventions will be delivered between now and 2030 to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2022 to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants and as such, the hearing of disputes is an operational matter for the RTB. There are statutory time periods laid down in the Residential Tenancies Act...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 324 and 326 together. Financial decision-making and the accountability of local authorities is a matter for the elected members of a local authority who have direct responsibility in law for all reserved functions of the authority, which includes adopting the annual budget. Section 103 of the Local Government Act, 2001, as amended, provides for the local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The design and construction of buildings is regulated under the Building Control Acts 1990 to 2020. The Act provides for the making of Building Regulations and Building Control Regulations. The Building Regulations set out the minimum legal performance requirements for the construction of new buildings and certain works to existing buildings. The purpose of the Building Regulations is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department has no role in the provision of direct supports to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from Ukraine (BoTPs) but is supporting the whole of Government response to the humanitarian situation that has arisen as a consequence of the invasion. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is the Department with lead responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Ireland proposed and notified 2 new offshore Marine Special Areas of Conservation for designation in 2022. These are Porcupine Shelf cSAC 002267 and Southern Canyons cSAC 002278.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Legal Cases (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: 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: Housing Provision (21 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: There is no statutory provision dealing with the issues as outlined in the Question. Such issues are managed by local authorities on a case-by-case basis as part of their day-to-day administration of the social housing system. My Department has no role in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (22 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133 and 135 together. I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 302 and 303 of 21 February 2023 which set out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (22 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: There were 1,247 (1,205.74 FTE) staff serving in my department at the end of 2020. By the end of December 2021 the headcount had increased to 1,409 (1,365.50 FTE). That growth increased during 2022, finishing the year at 1,605 (1,560.94 FTE). The year on year headcount changes at grade level within their respective grade streams are set out in the table below. Grade ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (22 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 136 and 137 together. I can confirm that funding of €68.5 million has been allocated, under the National Development Plan, for the period 2021-2025, to address legacy water services issues including the Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme (DPI) which is run by my Department. The DPI programme is focused on housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Addressing vacancy and making efficient use of existing housing stock is a key priority for Government, as set out in Pathway 4 of Housing for All.In January 2022, my Department communicated with local authorities outlining that funding, made available since 2018 to support the work of a Vacant Homes Office including a Vacant Homes Officer (VHO), would be increased from €50,000 to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (22 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The design and construction of buildings is regulated under the Building Control Acts 1990 to 2020. The Act provides for the making of Building Regulations and Building Control Regulations. The Building Regulations set out the minimum legal performance requirements for the construction of new buildings and certain works to existing buildings. The purpose of the Building Regulations is...