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Seanad: Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2023)

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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I received Government approval on 18 January to draft legislation to establish supports for the remediation of fire safety, structural safety and water ingress defects in purpose-built apartment buildings, including duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013. This legislation will provide a statutory basis for the establishment of a remediation scheme aimed at protecting the safety and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The policy intent of developing a Cost Rental sector in Ireland is to support the housing needs of those on moderate incomes for whom high open market rents are unaffordable and who do not qualify for social housing supports. Under the Cost Rental model, rents are set to cover only the cost of financing, building, managing and maintaining the homes, while any properties that receive State...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92, 93 and 94 together. My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs. The grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant and the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 95, 96 and 105 together. Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies Board, or RTB, was established as a quasi-judicial independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2022 to regulate the rental sector; provide information to tenants and landlords; maintain a national register of tenancies; resolve disputes between tenants and landlords; and conduct research and provide information to inform policy. The remit...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as a quasi-judicial independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2022 (RTA), to operate a national tenancy registration system and to facilitate the resolution of disputes between landlords and tenants. My Department does not have the information sought. However, the Clerk of the Dáil requested that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity, including HAP and RAS, in all local authority areas, on the statistics page of its website. The data requested in the Question can be found at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provis ion/. The latest published figures are for Q3...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 100, 101, 102 and 104 together. The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Since 2014, Exchequer funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The ‘15 minute city’ concept gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic. The idea of the 15-minute city has been championed in particular by the Paris Mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to promote communities that are designed to enable people to access most of their daily needs within a 15-minute walk or bike journey from their homes. In the Irish context, planning through various...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in direct...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 establishes Construction Industry Register Ireland (CIRI), a statutory register for providers of building works. In January this year the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) was appointed as the statutory registration body for the Construction Industry Register Ireland. The main objective of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Tenants in the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme are required to sign a rent contribution agreement to pay a weekly rental contribution to the relevant local authority, in line with the local authority’s differential rent scheme. As set out in the rent contribution agreement, this weekly rental contribution must be paid by them so that they remain eligible for the HAP scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: An Bord Pleanála (the Board) is the national independent statutory body with responsibility for the determination of planning appeals and direct applications for strategic infrastructure and other developments under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and certain other Acts. Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended, as Minister I am...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: An Bord Pleanála (the Board) is the national independent statutory body with responsibility for the determination of planning appeals and direct applications for strategic infrastructure and other developments under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and certain other Acts. My role as Minister in relation to the planning system is, primarily, to provide a policy and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rights of Way (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: There are no substantive changes to provisions in the draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 pertaining to public rights of way compared to the provisions in the current Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). The draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 was published in January and the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has undertaken a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Act 2022 was a time limited enactment which provided for a stay on eviction notices up to 31 March 2023, with deferred tenancy terminations taking effect over a staggered period from 1 April to 18 June. The Government and I considered a number of courses of action in advance of the ending of the winter...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All, is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes by 2030. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Local authorities will always have a level of vacancy in their housing stock. This will fluctuate over time, as tenancy surrender and re-letting of stock is an ongoing process. Therefore, ongoing data in relation to vacant local authority owned homes is not collated by my Department. However, statistics in relation to social housing stock, at a point in time, are published by the National...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 154 and 155 together. In line with the objectives of the National Planning Framework and the National Development Plan, the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) is currently providing part-funding to applicant-led projects, enabling more compact and sustainable development within the existing built-up footprints of our cities and large towns. ...