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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Cairns for her question. The Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and here referred to as the Act, and the Water Services Acts 2007 to 2018 set out the statutory provisions relating to the taking in charge of housing estates by planning authorities and Irish Water where it is appropriate to do so. Section 180 of the Act sets out the process to be followed in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: There is provision in the Act for housing estates that have not been taken in charge in terms of what action the residents can take to compel the local authority to commence the process. It is up to the local authority then to judge the development in terms of the completion to the prescribed planning permission. Over the past decade we had to respond to in excess of 3,000 ghost estates...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: As Deputy Matthews rightly outlined, the Croí Cónaithe towns fund will be a game changer in terms of bringing derelict properties back into use, along with the other interventions in the system. There will be two strings to it. One string will involve looking at a reduced cost of self-build in terms of serviced sites, which is very important for the system, while the second will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I hear the points made by the Deputy. That is why the Department and Minister have initiated a review under Housing for All. It also includes the context of the wider global interventions we are making in housing from the record level of social housing construction to the affordability measures from direct purchase and shared equity and our new cost-rental model, which will be a game...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: Housing for All is a very appropriate name because, in the context of a comprehensive societal approach, it is important that we have streams to have a record level of social, affordable and private housing. Many people in our society are unable to reach the threshold to get a mortgage. That is why we have a record level of affordable housing investment to meet that need. Housing for All...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 87 together. Housing for All provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030, with an overall objective that citizens 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 right into the system. The strategy sets out, over four...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for his question. Applications for housing support are assessed by the relevant local authority in accordance with the eligibility and needs criteria set down in section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated social housing assessment regulations. The regulations prescribe maximum net income limits for each local authority in differing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: Households wishing to obtain social housing support from a local authority or an Approved Housing Body must first apply to the relevant local authority for a social housing assessment. Where the household is deemed to qualify for support it is placed on the housing authority’s waiting list and offers of suitable accommodation are made in accordance with the authority’s...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: Town Centre First, jointly developed by my Department and the Department of Rural and Community Development, sets out 33 actions which will provide a co-ordinated framework across established national policy objectives (in particular the National Planning Framework, Housing for All and Our Rural Future), to address the decline in the health of our towns and sets out actions to regenerate and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock is the responsibility of each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Since 2014 however, my Departments Voids Programme has supplemented the local authority own resources available for the preparation of vacant properties for re-letting. The funding was introduced...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: Addressing vacancy and dereliction, and maximising the use of the existing housing stock, is a priority objective of the Government, as evidenced by the recently published Housing for All - A New Housing Plan for Irelandwhere one of the four pathways in the plan is specifically dedicated to this area. My Department continues to liaise with local authorities on the implementation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: Disabled people are entitled to all of the housing supports and have access to all schemes in like manner with other citizens. Since 2011, housing for disabled people has been addressed in a dedicated joint Strategy between my Department and the Department of Health. A new joint National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 was launched on 14 January 2022. The new...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electricity Generation (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 148 and 147 together. Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated regulations, requires planning permission. Schedule 4 of the Act and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, (the Regulations) sets out various exemptions from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: The Planning and Development (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2018, which came into operation on 8 February 2018, provide for an exemption from the requirement to obtain planning permission in respect of the change of use of certain vacant commercial premises to residential use, including the conversion of vacant areas above ground floor commercial premises to residential use. This measure was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 157 and 158 together. Of note, under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the 2000 Act), I am specifically procluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned.  Under the the 2000 Act, all development,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: Social housing allocation policies, including waiting lists, are a matter for local authorities. All applications for social housing support are assessed by the relevant local authority in accordance with the eligibility and need criteria set down in section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Social Housing Assessment Regulations.  It is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Peter Burke: 214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any particular process in the case of Ukrainian refugees seeking to work in Ireland for the Garda vetting in the current circumstances, or if the Ukrainian refugees are to apply in the normal way provided they have proof of identity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22527/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (4 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Buckley for again raising this issue on behalf of the community. It is a very frustrating thing, especially on Christmas Day, when you run into trouble or you are being advised of a boil water notice. I think of the four Topical Issue matters tonight, Deputy Buckley is definitely in front because he has an interim solution, which hopefully will be ready by latest at June, as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (4 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I assure Deputy Buckley that we will have an honest answer for him. I thank him for raising this very important matter. This is an issue of both national and local importance and I fully appreciate the concerns of the 10,000 people in the Deputy's community whom he referenced. The Deputy will appreciate that the operation of the Whitegate regional public water supply is a matter for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Energy Infrastructure (4 May 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter and allowing me the opportunity to provide an update on behalf of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Like him, I come from a large rural constituency that is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, so I very much understand the need to have an alternative in place before certain public policy measures are pursued. If...