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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 698, 704 and 705 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 developed, it...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 699, 706, 710, 712, 727 and 728 together. The Housing Agency provides a central support service which assesses applications for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. Each local authority must have in place a credit committee and it is a matter for the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme is administered by local authorities in their areas of responsibility. Each authority has a credit committee which makes the final decision on whether a loan is approved.  The Housing Agency provides a central assessment service for the local authorities. Based on a rigorous financial analysis, the Housing Agency make a recommendation for approval...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 regulate the landlord-tenant relationship in the residential rental sector and set out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Acts to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. The RTB...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 707 and 717 together. Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides a new statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. The new affordable purchase scheme is based on local authorities providing, directly or indirectly, below market price housing. The main tenets of the Scheme are as follows: - It will...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides a new statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. The Act itself contains significant detail on the new arrangements, reducing the extent to which regulations are required. Insofar as regulations are necessary, the most immediate requirement is for regulations dealing with the making of schemes of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Property Registration Authority (PRA) is the State organisation responsible for the registration of property transactions in Ireland. In 2018, the PRA completed 226,111 land registry transactions, an increase of 17% on 2017.  Over 80% of cases that were in order for registration and did not require a change to the map or examination of title were completed within ten days or...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 715 and 716 together. The Ballymun regeneration programme spanned a long number of years, with Departmental funding first arising in 1999. This substantial programme, which comprised 24 projects, is now complete. The overall programme is estimated to have cost approximately €972 million. Funding of €775.3 million was provided via my...

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

Eoghan Murphy: A reply to the correspondence referred to was issued on 7 March 2019.

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribe maximum net income limits for each local authority, in different bands according to the area concerned, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band were based on an assessment of the income needed to provide for a household's...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 721 to 724, inclusive, together. A detailed breakdown of the construction programme of new social housing build is set out in the Social Housing Construction Status Report, which is published on a quarterly basis by my Department. The report covering the period up to end Quarter 4 of 2018 is now available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not routinely collect the information referred to.  However, towards the end of last year, for the purposes of a review of the operation of the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme that has been undertaken by my Department, a request was made to a number of local authorities for information regarding processing times for loan applications.  Based on the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 126 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, An Bord Pleanála (the Board) has a statutory objective to determine planning appeals within 18 weeks. Where the Board does not consider it possible or appropriate to reach a decision within 18 weeks (e.g. because of the particular complexities of a case or the requirement to hold an oral hearing), it will inform the parties of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (7 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides a new statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. The Act itself contains significant detail on the new arrangements, reducing the extent to which regulations are required. Insofar as regulations are necessary, the most immediate requirement is for regulations dealing with the making of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Correspondence (7 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. While responsibility for the provision of accommodation for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities, the administration of homeless services is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (7 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The only funding of this nature through my Department, for private houses, is through the Housing Adaptations for Older People and People with a Disability schemes. The legislative basis for the funding requires the application of a means test to determine eligibility and to help identify those households facing the greatest challenge in meeting their accommodation needs from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (7 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The reply to Questions Nos. 272 and 273 refers only to the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF).  There is no Capital Advance Loan Facility, although the CALF scheme has sometimes been referred to in such terms.  P&A agreements are signed in respect of all homes funded under CALF. All homes funded under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Housing Acts, the management and maintenance of housing stock is, in the first instance, a matter for each individual local authority. My Department provides exchequer support to the local authorities across a number of programmes to support their work in maintaining and improving their social housing stock but, in all cases, it is the local authorities that identify priority works....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Local Authority Mortgage Protection Insurance scheme is a group scheme.  It is a requirement that all borrowers of local authority housing loans, including the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan, who meet the eligibility criteria, join the scheme. Where a prospective borrower fails to qualify under the local authority MPI scheme, they must source comparable and alternative adequate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 310 to 313, inclusive, together. In order to support the affordable housing programmes of local authorities, the Government has committed €310 million, over the three years 2019 to 2021, under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) announced as part of Budget 2019. The funding is available for key facilitating infrastructure, on public lands, to support the...