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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...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 Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5bn funding through the Housing Finance Agency. My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...18,000 new Cost Rental homes to 2030. A strong pipeline is in place and under continuous development by Local Authorities, by Approved Housing Bodies using the Cost Rental Equity Loan, and by the Land Development Agency. The core principle of Cost Rental is that the rents cover the development, management, and maintenance costs of the homes, so that the long-term future of the homes is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Sign Language (24 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...@pleanala.ie An Fóram Uisce info@nationalwaterforum.ie Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority oireachtasqueries@ahbregulator.ie Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum infodocklands@dublincity.ie Ervia oireachtas@ervia.ie Gas Networks Ireland ...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., 2,594 First Home Scheme properties, and some 800 Cost Rental homes; — in Budget 2024, the total Exchequer funding being made available for the delivery of housing programmes is €4.25 billion; the Capital provision of €2.7 billion will be supplemented by Land Development Agency investment and Housing Finance Agency lending resulting in an overall capital provision...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...18,000 new Cost Rental homes to 2030. A strong pipeline is in place and under continuous development by local authorities, by Approved Housing Bodies using the Cost Rental Equity Loan, and by the Land Development Agency. The core principle of Cost Rental is that the rents cover the development, management, and maintenance costs of the homes, so that the long-term future of the homes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...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 Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5bn funding through the Housing Finance Agency. Under Housing for All, each local authority was required to prepare a Housing Delivery...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...level to push for that immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access to people in Gaza. 1 o’clock Let us not forget also what is happening to Palestinians in the West Bank, with the grabbing of land and the continued expansion of illegal settlements. It is outrageous, frankly, and Ireland stands against those illegal actions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The State is investing €5 billion in housing this year. Every single measure we brought forward on housing Sinn Féin has opposed. It opposed the Land Development Agency. It opposed it right the way through.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Then the Social Democrats also say they want us to build on State land. We are building on State land.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: When we brought forward the Land Development Agency Act what did the Social Democrats do? They voted against that as well. They voted against the Affordable Housing Act. They voted against the Land Development Agency Act. Consider the first-time buyers that the Social Democrats purport to want to represent. They opposed the help-to-buy grant, they opposed the first home scheme-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...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 Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5bn funding through the Housing Finance Agency. My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Part V provides for the State to capture a portion of the increase in land value resulting from the granting of planning permission for residential development and refers to Part V of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021. The Affordable Housing Act 2021 made a number of changes to Part V. These changes came into operation on 3 September 2021. Any planning applications processed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: .... Under Housing for All, the Government has targeted the delivery of 28,500 new affordable homes from 2022 to 2026, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. Mayo County Council has prepared and published its own 5-year Housing Delivery Action Plan....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...will deliver 54,000 affordable homes, including 36,000 affordable purchase and 18,000 cost rental homes, by 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. Following the publication of Housing for All in September 2021, I asked all local authorities to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, applies to applicable developments of houses on any land that is zoned residential (either exclusively or mixed use) or is granted planning permission for houses as a material contravention of the development plan. In line with the commitments in the Programme for Government, I introduced changes to Part V of the Planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12 billion in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5 billion in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5 billion funding through the Housing Finance Agency. Data in relation to new dwelling completions is published by the CSO on a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...road or where it obstructs or interferes with the safe use of a public road or with the maintenance of a public road, a road authority may serve a notice in writing on the owner or occupier of the land on which such tree, shrub, hedge or other vegetation is situated, requiring the preservation, felling, cutting, lopping, trimming or removal of such tree, shrub, hedge or other vegetation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...objective of the levy is to act as a mechanism to incentivise the development of vacant and underutilised sites in urban areas for both the provision of housing and the development and renewal of land, thereby facilitating the most efficient use of such land and sites and enabling them to be brought into beneficial use rather than allowing them to remain dormant and undeveloped. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Research and Development (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department engages in collaborative research at an all-island level, through a broad range of partnerships and cooperation mechanisms, as set out below. National Parks and Wildlife Services all-island collaboration Officials in the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department collaborate with colleagues in Northern Ireland on an ongoing basis on shared, all-island nature,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under the Land Development Agency's (LDA) Business Plan 2024 – 2028, the agency will provide 12,900 - primarily affordable cost rental - homes over the lifetime of the plan. This is a significant contribution to the overall objectives within Housing for All. This emphasis on delivering social and affordable housing means that there has been a significant change in the scale and remit...