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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: 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.  Last year, I asked the Agency to compile figures on its processing of applications.  The most recent figures, as at the end of January 2019,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency (LDA) was established on 13 September 2018 by way of Establishment Order under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971. There are currently three staff working in the LDA on secondment from the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA).  These secondments were directly arranged between my Department and the NTMA. Further LDA...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Statistical information on social housing delivery across a range of delivery streams, broken down on a local authority basis, is published on my Department's website at the following link: . Over the course of Rebuilding Ireland, the Government is committed to meeting the housing needs of over 137,000 households. With funding of over €6 billion in place, significant progress on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Weather Events Response (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is the Lead Government Department for co-ordinating the response to severe weather events. The  task of monitoring for, and initial response to, emergencies of all kinds within my Department's remit is assigned to the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management. The National Directorate responds on the basis of its Standard Operating...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested in respect of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) is set out in the following table:  Year HAP (€m) RAS  (€m) 2017 152.69 142.8 2018 276.6 143.4 2019 (Allocated) 422 134.3 Rent Supplement falls within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme has been structured in a way that protects Exchequer funding, by ensuring that payments are made only on valid and complete applications. For this reason rent is generally paid in arrears, which ensures that money is only paid in respect of time that the property has actually been occupied by the tenant. This practice helps avoid a situation where...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is firmly focused on increasing housing supply and the priority is to support those in society with the greatest housing access and affordability challenges.  In that context, the focus is on meeting the housing needs of those in the lower-income categories, particularly those in need of social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The voids programme provides additional support to local authorities in preparing vacant social homes for re-letting, particularly homes that would likely remain vacant for a significant period of time because of the cost of the works required.  The programme assists local authorities in actively targeting such vacant properties, to minimise their turnaround and re-let times and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the number of houses that have been built and acquired by local authorities, including in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in each of the years 2013 to end Quarter 3 of 2018, are published and available on my Department's website at the following link: http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and- affordble/overall-social-housing-provision.   Details in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes data on a monthly basis outlining the number of homeless persons accommodated in emergency accommodation funded and overseen by housing authorities. These reports are based on data provided by housing authorities and are produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS). The most recently published statistics for December 2018, show...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A number of measures have been introduced in recent years with the objective of improving security of tenure for tenants.  Security of tenure provisions under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 apply once a tenant has been in occupation of a dwelling for a continuous period of 6 months, with no notice of termination having been served during that time. Section 34...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: On 7 December 2018, I issued ’Urban Development and Building Height’ Guidelines for Planning Authorities and An Bord Pleanála, pursuant to Section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).Publication of the guidelines, which were called for widely in the wider planning and development sector, followed a period of public consultation and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 74 and 79 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 75 and 245 together. Given the affordability challenge faced by renters in Dublin and other parts of the country, the Government is committed to the introduction of a not-for-profit, cost rental sector in Ireland. Together with delivering more affordable and predictable rents, cost rental will make a sustainable impact on national competitiveness and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since the introduction of the Mortgage to Rent (MTR) scheme in 2012, a total of 4,475 cases have been submitted under the scheme to the end of 2018.  Of the 4,475 cases submitted, 3,043 were ineligible or terminated during the process.  Of the remaining cases submitted, 445 have been completed, and the remaining 987 applications are being actively...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (20 Feb 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. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. This includes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Acknowledging that renters in Dublin and other major urban centres are currently facing significant access and affordability challenges, the Government is committed to the introduction of a not-for-profit, cost rental sector in Ireland. Together with delivering more affordable and predictable rents, cost rental can make a sustainable impact on national competitiveness and the attractiveness...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The latest Homeless Report published by my Department, for December 2018, showed that there were 1,617 families, with 3,559 associated dependants, accessing emergency accommodation. Rebuilding Ireland, the Government’s Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness, is designed to increase the delivery of housing across all tenures to help individuals and families meet their housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: An additional letter of formal notice from the European Commission relating to Infringement 2007/2238, which deals with Ireland's transposition of the Water Framework Directive, was received by my Department on 24 January 2019. The letter outlines areas in which Ireland is alleged to have incorrectly or not fully transposed the Directive. The key elements of the Directive which, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The current position in relation to the refusal by households of offers of social housing dwellings is set down in Regulation 12 of the Social Housing Allocation Regulations 2011, made under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. Under Regulation 12, a household that refuses two reasonable offers of such tenancies in any twelve-month period, other than an offer...