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Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is irresponsible to suggest that long term homelessness could be solved in the time period that the Labour Party has provided. It is irresponsible because the Labour Party did not do it and the Labour Party has to ask itself if some of its policies actually make things worse. This motion speaks to a number of issues in the housing area-----

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: -----because it is a very complex area. We have to talk about supply of course but it not just purely about supply. It is about sustainability of supply, security of supply, diversity of supply and affordability of supply. It is also about the safety and security of citizens, new stock and dealing with existing stock. Deputy Penrose talked about vacancies, with which we have a problem....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The income thresholds are being reviewed by the Housing Agency and I await its report.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has given funding approval for Meath County Council's proposed development of 13 new build social homes at the location in question and I understand from the Council that construction is due to commence in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In order to qualify for social housing support and be placed on a housing list, an applicant must be assessed by the authority concerned as meeting all of the eligibility and need criteria set down in the legislation. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Review (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: An Organisational Review of An Bord Pleanála was undertaken by an independent expert panel and its report was published in March 2016. A copy of the review is available on my Department's website at the following link: . A number of other formal reports concerning the management, structure and processes of, or relevant to, An Bord Pleanála have previously been undertaken by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (10 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: Public Private Partnerships Data (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 209 and 210 together. This PPP contract is paid through a monthly unitary payment. This payment incorporates all costs under the contract, including the initial construction costs of the units, or what might be referred to as the pure "bricks and mortar" costs.  It also includes management and maintenance costs, such as the day-to-day upkeep of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Construction work on the 534 homes that will be delivered under Bundle 1 of the Social Housing PPP Programme commenced following financial close on the contract, which took place on 19 March 2019. In relation to the work which has begun on the site at Craddockstown, as referred to by the Deputy, it is expected that these homes will be completed and ready to receive tenants by Q2 2020.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (10 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Statistics on the number of social homes constructed by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) are published on my Department’s website at the following link: . These statistics are updated on a quarterly basis, with similar details for 2019 to be published as the year progresses. The Social Housing Construction Status Report, which is published on a quarterly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputies. In reply to Deputy Wallace, the housing sector in this country was dysfunctional for decades and it broke completely following the financial crisis. What we are trying to do now is rebuild it in a way that is sustainable so it will not crash again. There is a levy on vacant land and that is what we discussed in the previous question. In regard to our ambitions around...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: This is not a revenue raising measure. We did not bring in the vacant site levy to bring in money. We brought it in to encourage the use of land for development. We will not measure this based on the amount of money we bring in but on the number of sites we get under construction as a result of bringing in the levy. As I said, development is taking place on 42 sites since we brought in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: -----the person is liable to pay €100,000 on that. We are seeing proof of that now. The levy we have put in place is moving sites from vacancy into construction but the important thing to note as well is that we are not just using the vacant site levy to get land moving. We have also got the Land Development Agency bringing forward State land to make sure we are progressing the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 73, 101 and 111 together. I thank the Deputies for their questions. There are approximately 340,000 tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, of which approximately 310,000 are private rented tenancies. The majority of landlords, just over 70%, own just one property, with a further 16% owning just two properties. Almost 86% of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputies for their questions. Briefly, to respond to Deputy Wallace's comment, of course we can find individual sites and make a judgment based on an individual site for the scheme as a whole but it would be wrong to do that because we know under the vacant site levy that we have more than 300 sites now on the register-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: -----but more than 40 sites have now seen construction and development because of the levy. Moving on to the questions with which we are dealing, overall the impact to date has been very minimal. If we consider 2017, less than 1% of transactions were from large foreign institutional investors - that is based on either 2017 or 2018 data. Approximately 4.5% of tenancies are under the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his questions. One of the later questions deals with institutional investors. They are not hoovering up properties to the extent people think they are. We need to rebalance our housing sector away from over-reliance on individual landlords with one or two properties; we need to find a balance there. On the serviced sites fund, the second call has gone out from my...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 68 and 117 together. Under the vacant site levy provisions of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, planning authorities are empowered to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market value of relevant vacant sites. These arrangements commenced in respect of vacant sites included on local authority vacant site registers prior to 1 January 2018 with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Finance for small sites and particularly infill sites can be quite complicated because there can be many difficulties, as Dublin City Council found out recently when it looked at a particular site in the city centre. I am sorry I raced through my initial answer which contained considerable detail. There are 360 sites on the local registers. More than €400 million worth of land is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 67, 74 and 78 together. One of the Government’s key priorities is to address issues of housing affordability, including for low to middle-income households and workers. A multi-stranded approach is being taken to support such households in achieving home ownership, particularly those households earning annual gross incomes up to €50,000...