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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding to local authorities to implement the Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme for Older People and People with a Disability in private houses. The detailed administration of the scheme, including the assessment, approval and payment of individual grants to applicants, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority.  The scheme is more sharply...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 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 and also using exchequer...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan must be of good credit standing and have a satisfactory credit record.  A person who has been discharged from bankruptcy and is eligible in all other respects, including being a first-time buyer, for a Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan may apply for a loan and will be subject to the same credit assessment process that applies to all...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Better Energy Homes Scheme (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Grant assistance may be available from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in respect of energy efficiency retrofitting works to prevent heat loss from a dwelling. My Department provides funding to local authorities under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, but as the focus of this funding is particularly on adapting houses so that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the measures being funded under the Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021 were notified to local authorities by my Department on 8 February 2019. Local authorities were invited to submit their bids for the funding of schemes or projects in their functional areas, with the deadline for receipt of proposals set as 14 March 2019. Mayo County Council has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme was launched in February last year to replace the existing House Purchase and the Home Choice Loan schemes. Towards the end of the year I asked my Department to undertake a review of its operation. In carrying out the review, the Department has consulted with a number of local authorities, the Housing Agency and the Housing Finance Agency....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was launched on 1 February 2018 to replace the existing House Purchase and Home Choice Loan schemes, providing a new line of mortgage finance, including fixed rates over 25 to 30 years, to creditworthy first-time buyers who cannot access sufficient mortgage finance from commercial lenders.   The HFA borrowed €200 million to fund the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 623 and 624 together. The Local Government Audit Service (LGAS) is statutorily responsible for providing a professional audit service to local authorities, including conducting external audits of local authorities and giving an audit opinion on the annual financial statements.   The Local Government Audit Service (LGAS) value for money...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer the Deputy to my reply to recent Parliamentary Question No 1389 of 26 March 2019 on this matter; On 12 March 2019, I received a statement of case from Sligo County Council that Imperative Reasons for Overriding Public interest (IROPI) exist in respect of a planning application for the upgrade to the existing water treatment plant at Lough Talt, County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly in relation to 'the manner in which referenda are held' are currently under consideration in my Department. When that analysis is completed I will bring the matter to Government with a view to the Government responding to the Houses of the Oireachtas in relation the recommendations concerned. If a recommendation is being accepted, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A proposal was received from Wicklow County Council, on behalf of an AHB, for the acquisition and adaptation of the property in question, in June 2017 and my Department responded in July 2017, requesting that the acquisition and adaptation of the property be pursued at a more reasonable level of costs. I understand that, subsequently, the AHB proceeded with the acquisition of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rents Data (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There are continuous upward pressures on the private rental market due to our strong economic and demographic growth and the restricted supply available.  Affordability remains a significant issue in the rental market.  The findings presented in the report referred to acknowledge that Ireland’s performance in terms of high housing costs for market...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee (NTACC) was established under the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 to advise the Minister in relation to Traveller accommodation issues generally. In line with the commitment in Rebuilding Ireland, and reflecting the disappointing level of overall funding drawdown in recent years, the Housing Agency, in 2017,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 630 and 631 together. The information sought in relation to average construction costs for social housing is currently being updated within my Department and will be provided to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the funding provided to each local authority in 2018 in respect of social housing acquisition programmes is set out in the following table.  The figures include the funding provided for social housing acquisitions by approved housing bodies, which is provided directly to the local authorities by my Department who, in turn, advance the funding to the approved housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Capital Investment Programme (SHCIP) is the funding mechanism used to deliver direct local authority Part V homes.  The Part V related expenditure under that programme in 2017 was €9.9m, with expenditure of €49.3m in 2018.  It should be noted that the delivery of homes does not always arise in the same year as expenditure being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: As housing authorities, local authorities are responsible for the identification of the social housing need in their area, for the development of appropriate responses to the need identified, and to create and support sustainable communities.  My Department is supporting local authorities and approved housing bodies (AHBs) in the provision of social housing across build, lease and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Limerick City and County Council provide a highly effective transactional shared service on behalf of all local authorities in the administration of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme. The HAP Shared Services Centre (SSC) manages all HAP related rental transactions for the tenant, local authority and landlord. Once a HAP application has been received and confirmed as valid...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Applications Data (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not hold the information requested. Applications for social housing support are assessed by the relevant local authority who are solely responsible for the processing of such applications, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (9 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, introduced the Rent Predictability Measure to moderate rent increases in those parts of the country where rents are highest and rising, resulting in great difficulty for households finding affordable accommodation.  In Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs), rents can only increase by a maximum of 4% annually. The measure...