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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

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 an average of 10,000 new build social homes each year in the period to 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 76 and 81 together. Housing for All, the most ambitious and comprehensive housing plan in the history of our State, was published in September 2021. The Plan contains a suite of actions that have and continue to increase the provision of housing through accelerating supply and increasing the affordability of homes for our citizens, including those in Carlow....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government has targeted delivery of 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency and via the First Home scheme, a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. In the case of the Local Authority Affordable Purchase scheme, the Affordable Housing Fund is available to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The First Home Scheme, which launched in July 2022, is a shared equity scheme, designed to help bridge the gap for eligible first-time buyers, eligible homebuyers, and self-builders, between their deposit and mortgage, and the price of their new home (within price ceilings established across the country). Full details are available on the First Home Scheme website. The overall funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Mortgage to Rent (MTR) scheme is targeted at those households in mortgage arrears who have had their mortgage position deemed unsustainable by their lender under the Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (MARP), and who have very limited options, if any, to meet their long-term housing needs themselves. One important eligibility criteria for the MTR scheme is that the household must be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 80 and 112 together. Supporting individuals and families facing homelessness is a priority for Government. Critical to supporting households to exit homelessness is increasing the supply of housing. Almost 12,000 new social homes were delivered in 2023, through Build, Acquisition and Leasing, including 8,110 new build homes, the highest level of new build...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The figures referred to relate to the notifications, received by local authorities, of planned changes of use of vacant commercial properties into residential units under The Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 and the number of new homes associated with those notifications, for the years 2018-2023. The Regulations were extended by way of the Planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 83, 100 and 111 together. Housing for All includes a commitment to review income eligibility for social housing. From this review, completed in November 2021, it was recommended moving five local authorities from Band 3 to Band 2, ensuring the income eligibility thresholds better reflect housing costs in those counties. Government also agreed to increase the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022-2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). For 2023 the Government agreed that there would be increased provision for social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 85 and 178 together. Tá Grúpa Idir-Rannach (ina bhfuil mo Roinnse, an Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán, agus Údarás na Gaeltachta) fós ag leanúint lena chuid oibre ag forbairt treoir phleanála faoi leith do cheantair Ghaeltachta. Bhí roinnt cruinnithe den...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 86 and 92 together. The First Home Scheme, which launched in July 2022, is a shared equity scheme designed to help bridge the gap between their deposit and mortgage, and the price of their new home, for eligible first-time buyers, fresh start applicants and those who wish to build their first home. The First Home Scheme DAC is responsible for the operation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as quasi-judicial, independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2024 (RTA ) to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. Where a tenant is unsure as to the validity of a Notice of Rent Review served, he or she may refer the matter to the RTB for dispute...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: New home commencement activity increased significantly in 2023, with more than 32,800 new homes commenced, the highest annual figure for any calendar year in the last decade. This increase has been sustained into 2024, with almost 35,400 commencements between January and July, up 91% on the same period last year and exceeding the total of 2023 by 8%. Rolling 12-month commencements to the end...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All commits to increasing the housing options available to older people to facilitate ageing in place with dignity and independence, including the development of a policy on rightsizing. The Housing for All policy objective to make more efficient use of existing housing stock includes tasking my Department with the development of a national policy on rightsizing and to explore...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 91 and 95 together. The recently published research by the ESRI on population growth and structural housing demand to 2040 provides a credible evidence-base for the development of revised housing targets by my department. Recognising the difficulty in accurately estimating population growth and future housing demand over the longer-term, the ESRI research...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On 25 April 2023, the Government approved additional measures under the Housing for All Action Plan to incentivise the activation of increased housing supply and help reduce housing construction costs, including the introduction of temporary time-limited arrangements for the waiving of local authority “section 48” development contributions and the refunding of Uisce Éireann...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department monitors multiple aspects of the housing market on an ongoing basis, including the quantum of housing purchased by household and non-household purchasers. Suggestions institutional investors are 'snapping-up' houses is not supported by the data, sectoral commentary, or from feedback provided by the real estate sector to my Department. Indeed, available data and sectoral...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Funding approvals are now in place for the delivery of over 4,300 affordable purchase and cost rental homes by 21 local authorities with the support of the Affordable Housing Fund. The legislative framework and arrangements in place to support local authority affordable purchase schemes are proving effective. Louth County Council has already delivered their first local authority led...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Cost Rental housing represents a key element of affordable housing delivery under the Government's Housing For All strategy, which is being achieved through collaboration with a range of delivery partners including Local Authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, and the Land Development Agency. In relation to the O'Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road, my Department has approved funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All, the most ambitious housing plan in the history of our State, was published in September 2021. The Plan contains a suite of actions that has, and continues to increase the provision of housing through accelerating supply and increasing the affordability of homes for our citizens, including for those in Cavan and Monaghan. Reflecting the importance placed on Housing for All, a...