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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (18 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Statistical information in relation to social housing delivery across all delivery streams, including rapid delivery, is published on my Department's website at the following . Statistical information for the full year 2018 has been published and is available at the following . To the end of 2018, 423 homes had been delivered under the rapid delivery programme. 22 of these were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (18 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: At the end of 2018, a total of 1,260 applications for the Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) had been received from property owners; 89 homes had been brought back into use and were tenanted; and 132 agreements for lease had been signed. A detailed breakdown of the RLS scheme data by local authority up to end Q4 2018 is available on my Department’s website at the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (18 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A range of housing options are necessary to ensure a supply of accommodation to meet different types of social housing need. Harnessing the off-balance sheet potential of private investment in social housing is an important objective of the Government and the social housing targets set out in Rebuilding Ireland over the period to 2021 reflect the ambition in that regard.   My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Over the course of the 6-year Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan, the Government is committed to meeting the housing needs of over 138,000 households. This will be achieved through blended delivery, involving increasing the social housing stock by 50,000 homes, through build, acquisition and leasing programmes, and supporting some 88,000 further households through the Housing Assistance Payment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, responsive repairs and implementing planned maintenance programmes, is a matter for each individual local authority, in line with Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966.  Local authorities return vacant properties to use through their own resources but my Department also...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: At the end of March 2019, there were 45,423 active tenancies being supported under the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme. Collection of data in relation to the number of households making a top-up payment to their landlord does not form part of the standard reporting process of my Department.  However, the information available to the HAP Shared Service Centre operated by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) was launched as part of Project Ireland 2040, to support the compact growth and sustainable development of Ireland’s five cities, regional drivers and other large urban centres.  I initiated the first call for proposals under the Fund in July...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced in 2018, and provides the statutory basis for the provision of affordable housing for purchase. In March 2019, I signed the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (Part 5) Regulations 2019, which primarily deal with the order of priority for the allocation of affordable homes within a Scheme of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced on 18 June 2018 and provides the statutory basis for the provision of affordable housing for purchase. On 12 March 2019, I signed the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (Part 5) Regulations 2019. These regulations deal with the order of priority for the allocation of affordable homes and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Considerable work has been ongoing between the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH), a number of larger Tier 3 Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) and their financial advisors on the development of a vehicle for delivering private financing for AHBs providing social housing in line with ambitions set out in the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Payment and Availability (P&A) funding to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) was introduced by my Department for leased properties, secured by AHBs, in 2009. It was subsequently extended to the acquisition and construction of properties by AHBs and facilitates delivery under the Capital Advance Loan Facility (CALF), the Mortgage to Rent Scheme (MTR), the Housing Agency Acquisitions Fund...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), the Government has committed €310 million over the three years 2019 to 2021, to provide infrastructure supports for the delivery of 6,200 affordable homes to purchase or rent.  In December 2018, an initial 10 projects, with the potential for 1,400 affordable homes, were approved with an allocation of €43 million under the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 248 to 250, inclusive, together. As a key initiative of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is primarily designed to fund the provision of public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical infrastructure blockages and enable housing developments to be built on key sites at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Project Ireland 2040, as launched by the Government in February 2018, is the overarching policy and planning framework for the social, economic and cultural development of Ireland.  It includes a detailed capital investment plan for the period 2018 to 2027, the National Development Plan (NDP) 2018-2027, and the 20-year National Planning Framework (NPF). The NPF sets a new long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (16 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Commissioner of Valuation is independent in the performance of his statutory functions and the setting of valuations for rating is his sole responsibility. I have no function in relation to decisions in this regard. The Valuation Office is currently engaged in a national revaluation programme, on a phased basis, the first revaluation of that scale,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (16 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Development Plan established four new funds, with a combined allocation of €4 billion to 2027.  The Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) launched last year has an overall provision of €2 billion to 2027.  €58 million is available in 2019 to provide initial support to the 88 projects announced last November on foot of the first call for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (16 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In response to the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy and in recognition of fears expressed for fire safety, I tasked my Department's National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management with co-ordinating a high-level task force to lead a reappraisal of fire safety in Ireland. The task force was requested to oversee and report on a number of initial steps, and to urgently consider any potential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (16 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The details of the notifications received by each local authority in 2018, from 8 February when the planning exemption for the conversion of vacant commercial properties into residential use came into operation, until 31 December, is set out in the following table: County Council Number of Notifications Total No. of Residential Units Carlow 2 3 Cavan 0 0 Clare 0...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Leases (16 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, requires that a developer must provide up to 10% of a site for development, that has the benefit of planning permission, to the local authority for the purposes of social housing at a price equivalent to the existing use value of the lands on the date on which planning permission was granted. The Part V provisions were amended in 2015 to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (16 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: As the Deputy will be aware, I recently established the Galway Social Housing Taskforce to support and accelerate the delivery of social housing in Galway. The Taskforce is also charged with identifying barriers and local issues that are impeding housing delivery in general in Galway. A key priority for the Taskforce will be to encourage local authorities to work together, including sharing...