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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (26 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government’s Strategy for the Rental Sector recognises that rapidly increasing rental inflation is the most significant challenge to security of tenure in the rental sector and that there is a need for a targeted, time-bound and transparent policy response to the issue of rising rents. To address this, the Government introduced the Rent Predictability Measure. This measure, which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (26 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Residential developments consisting of two or more dwellings that have been granted planning permission under section 34 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) may be eligible (depending on the grant of planning condition) for taking in charge. The taking in charge of residential estates by local authorities is provided for under section 180 of the 2000 Act and is a reserved...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme (26 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: An application under my Department's Capital Assistance Scheme was received for the acquisition and adaptation of the property in question, in June 2017. Funding approval was issued in July 2017, for an overall budget to cover the acquisition and adaptation. This budget approval was less than the combined amount sought, but given the exceptionally high costs of the proposed project, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Garda Vetting (26 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In order for a household to qualify for the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme, the household must first be assessed as eligible for social housing support by their local authority. Any household assessed as eligible for social housing is immediately eligible for HAP. The application form for social housing support prescribed by the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (26 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The local authorities have responsibility for the detailed administration of the Housing Adaptation Grants scheme for Older People and People with a Disability, which includes the assessment, approval and payment of grants to applicants under the various measures. While an occupational therapist report informs a local authority's assessment of a grant application, the final decision on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (26 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Action 18 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector, a Working Group was established, involving representatives of all major public stakeholders with a policy interest in short-term lettings, to develop guidance in relation to planning applications, changes of use relating to short-term lettings and to examine the need for new regulatory arrangements. Proposals under consideration by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: River Basin Management Plans (13 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has policy responsibility for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Ireland. The Directive is a framework for the ecological protection of waters, and is implemented via River Basin Management Plans. Measures have been identified in the River Basin Management Plan 2018-2021 to improve the assessment of river barriers that may be impacting on a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 359 and 360 together. My Department has a wide and diverse business agenda which includes a range of social housing programmes under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan, private housing grants, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund, the Serviced Sites Fund, funding of Irish Water, the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund, and the Local Government...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (13 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: During 2018, I received reports from the Homelessness Inter-Agency Group and the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) that identified the challenges of non-Irish nationals presenting to homeless services. The report of the Inter-Agency group recommended the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government should develop an agreed policy,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (13 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes information on the overall number and value of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns. Information up to the end of Quarter 3 2018, including in relation to number and value of mortgage drawdowns, is available on the Department's website at the following link: . In addition, the Housing Agency provides a central support service...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (13 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. The review is addressing a number of key aspects including sound or noise, visual amenity setback distances, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. As part of the overall review, a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is being undertaken on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (13 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Action 18 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector, a Working Group was established, involving representatives of all major public stakeholders with a policy interest in short-term lettings, to develop guidance in relation to planning applications, changes of use relating to short-term lettings and to examine the need for new regulatory arrangements. Proposals under consideration by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Property Registration Authority can amend the ownership, registered on a folio, upon receipt of an application for registration. In the event of the death of the registered owner an application would typically be received from a solicitor acting on behalf of the estate of the deceased person. Arrangements have been put in place by all bodies under the aegis of my Department to facilitate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax Data (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 689 and 690 together. Local Property Tax (LPT) is administered and collected by the Revenue Commissioners and is remitted into the Local Government Fund. The Revenue Commissioners publish detailed information on LPT collected annually, broken down by local authority, on its website at the following web link: . The current local retention regime for LPT began...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of public water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. Connection applications are therefore a matter for Irish Water. Irish Water has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from public representatives. The team can be contacted via email...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Planning legislation places no specific restrictions on the height of trees or hedges, nor does it make any particular provision for remedy from any other nuisance which may be caused by trees in an urban residential area. However, a civil remedy is available through the Courts concerning branches or roots of neighbouring trees encroaching on a person’s property. The possibility of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, a household may apply to one housing authority only for social housing support at a time. Currently it is not possible for a household on the waiting list of one housing authority to transfer its application to another authority and to carry the time spent on the previous list. A commitment has been given to examine the possibility of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A review of income eligibility for social housing supports in each local authority area is under way, and this review will encompass issues such as the one referred to. The Housing Agency is continuing to carry out the detailed statistical work, which will underpin this review, on behalf of my Department. The review will also have regard to current initiatives being brought forward in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 696, 711, 719, 725 and 726 together. The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme was launched in February of last year to replace the existing local authority mortgage schemes, which were funded through loans that local authorities obtained from the Housing Finance Agency (HFA) for that purpose. When the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was initially being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Clare County Council has not received a notification from my Department that it can no longer acquire private dwellings for its social housing programme. Contact between my Department and Clare County Council has been around the imminent issuing of social housing targets for 2019 and the fact that, while the Council is likely to undertake further acquisitions, the priority for its social...