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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: On 25 April 2023, the Government approved additional measures under the Housing for All Action Plan to incentivise the activation of increased housing supply and help reduce housing construction costs, including the introduction of temporary time-limited arrangements for the waiving of local authority “section 48” development contributions and the refunding of Uisce Éireann...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: The Programme for Government commits to the establishment of a ‘Local Democracy Taskforce’ with the Local Government sector to finalise a programme for the reform and strengthening of local government. There has already been a substantial body of work undertaken to examine the powers, functions and responsibilities of Local Government in the following reports: -...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: Under the Housing for All plan, long term leasing for new entrants is due to end in 2025. Long term leasing targets sought to deliver up to 3,500 social homes from 2022 to 2025, tapering down from 1,300 units in 2022 to 200 units in 2025. The 200 unit target for 2025 is almost fully subscribed. The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) supports the delivery of social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: My Department provides funding directly to DCC for their programme of urban renewal. It also supports projects brought forward by the LDA which complements the regeneration programme. The Montpelier project is currently on-site and will reach substantial completion in 2027 delivering 1,044 new homes including 280 social homes, 233 affordable purchase homes and 264 cost rental homes. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: As detailed under Housing for All, the Government plans to deliver 54,000 affordable homes, including 36,000 affordable purchase and 18,000 cost rental homes, by 2030. A comprehensive implementation strategy is in place to support the various affordable housing schemes now being delivered by a range of delivery partners. These measures, specifically the affordable purchase schemes, are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: As a key partner in the Government’s delivery of affordable and social homes, the Land Development Agency is activating and securing the delivery of social and affordable homes in stalled planning consented developments, managing the State’s own lands to develop new homes and partnering with local authorities to unlock housing delivery at scale on their lands. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: Addressing homelessness is a priority for this Government. The Programme for Government includes a commitment to ensuring that there is sufficient emergency accommodation for those who require it. Funding of €303 million is available for the delivery of homeless services in 2025. This funding supports the provision of emergency accommodation and wrap around supports. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist local authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. The Act provides that housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: The Programme for Government commits to invest additional capital in Uisce Éireann to facilitate housing development in our towns and villages. Last November, I approved Uisce Éireann's Strategic Funding Plan (SFP) 2025 - 2029. The SFP specifies the arrangements Uisce Éireann proposes to make and measures it proposes to take to meet the policy objectives of the Water...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: The Government is acutely aware of the housing challenges faced by many sectors of society. Housing for All, Ireland's housing plan to 2030, contains a suite of actions that have and continue to increase the provision of housing through accelerating supply and increasing the affordability of homes. Cost Rental housing is a key tool in our efforts to make rents more affordable and renting...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: My Department continues to tackle the issue of dereliction through a series of related actions and supports in conjunction with the local authorities and other stakeholders. The Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) imposes a general duty on every owner and occupier of land to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the land does not become, or continue to be, a derelict site. The Act also...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. The review is addressing a number of key aspects of the Guidelines including noise, setback distance, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. My Department, in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: Government is fully committed to working with all stakeholders to deliver social, affordable and cost rental homes at scale and to continue accelerating housing supply across all tenures. This is demonstrated by the record level of investment which is being provided for the delivery of Housing in 2025, with overall capital funding available of €6.5 billion. The capital provision is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: The zoning of land for particular uses is an exercise undertaken as part of the overall statutory plan making function of the local authority under relevant provisions of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended) (the Act). Under this legislation, the decision to zone land is specifically a reserved function of the Elected Members of the Planning Authority. In preparing their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Statutory Instruments (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: The Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations (S.I. 605 of 2022) were introduced to assist the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (MCEDIY) in meeting Ireland’s legal obligation to provide accommodation to international protection applicants. The Regulations amend Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Planning and Development...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: The Government is fully committed to the protection and preservation of our underwater cultural heritage as outlined in the Programme for Government. Work is currently underway within the National Monuments Service on a draft National Strategy to protect Ireland's underwater cultural heritage. It is anticipated that this will be ready for public consultation later this year. Ratification...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: Government maintains a strong focus on the use of vacant and underutilised public land for housing having agreed the transfer of 37 sites to the Land Development Agency (LDA) for the development of affordable and social housing. The Land Development Agency Act 2021 (the Act) was commenced in July 2021, with a number of objectives including the identification and assessment of relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 95 and 98 together. The National Built Heritage Service (NBHS) oversees a number of grant schemes to assist owners of historic buildings. The purpose of these schemes is to support the repair, maintenance, conservation, and re-use of the traditional buildings which contribute so much to the character and amenity of our villages, towns, cities, and rural...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: Data for the Q4 2024 social and affordable housing delivery figures is currently being collated and validated and is due be published at the end of this quarter in line with previous years. Comprehensive delivery statistics for both social and affordable housing are published quarterly on my Department's website and are available up to end Q3 2024. My Department also publishes the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (20 Mar 2025)

James Browne: The Programme for Government commits to invest additional capital in Uisce Éireann to facilitate housing development in our towns and villages. Last November, I approved Uisce Éireann's Strategic Funding Plan (SFP) 2025 - 2029. The SFP specifies the arrangements Uisce Éireann proposes to make and measures it proposes to take to meet the policy objectives of the Water...