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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Statistics in relation to the number of social housing homes that have been delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) under the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS), Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF), AHB Mortgage to Rent Scheme (MTR) and Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP), are published and available on my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Detailed data of the kind sought is not available in my Department as the management of the letting of social housing homes is a matter for individual housing authorities in the first instance. However, from engagement with local authorities, it is estimated that there are up to 2,000 refusals of offers of social housing across the country each year.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not routinely collect the information the Deputy is referring to.  However, for the purposes of a review of the operation of the scheme being undertaken by my Department, a request was made towards the end of last year, to a number of local authorities, for amongst other things, information regarding processing times for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: On foot of a first call for proposals under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), which issued to the 4 Dublin Councils, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow, Louth and Cork County Councils, and Cork and Galway City Councils, I announced approval in principle for ten projects, with a total estimated cost €43 million, in December 2018. These ten projects will support the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (19 Feb 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the number of houses built and acquired by local authorities, including Cavan and Monaghan County Councils, 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: .   Details in respect of Quarter 4 of 2018, will be published shortly. Similar details for 2019 will be published on a quarterly basis.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Affordable housing, for purchase or cost rental, is being targeted for delivery through a range of measures overseen by my Department, including direct delivery from State land supported by the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF); delivery under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) and delivery by the Land Development Agency (LDA), which was established late last year.   ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There are currently 19 local authority social housing construction projects that have been or are being advanced through the single-stage approval process, 3 of which have now been completed. This process, presently, covers projects with an all-in budget up to €2 million and up to 15 homes. The details referred to by the Deputy in the context of a single stage approval process are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: At the end of Q3 2018, a total of 1,214 applications had been received from property owners under the Repair and Lease (RLS) scheme; 48 homes had been brought back into use and were tenanted; and 122 agreements for lease had been signed. Further progress under the scheme will be evident in the Q4 2018 data which will be published shortly. A detailed breakdown of  the data by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the vacant site levy provisions in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, planning authorities are empowered to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market value of relevant vacant sites where a site exceeds 0.05 hectares in area, was in the planning authority’s opinion vacant or idle in 2018, and is in an area identified by the planning authority in its development plan...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The funding provided to each local authority for the construction of local authority social housing, the purchase of properties by local authorities for social housing and for the refurbishment of voids for each year over the period 2015 to 2018, is set out in the following table.  Local Authority 2015 Funding €m 2016 Funding €m 2017 Funding €m 2018...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The €2 billion Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) was launched as part of Project Ireland 2040, to support the compact growth and sustainable development of Ireland’s five cities, regional drivers and other large urban centres. A total of 189 applications were submitted to my Department under the first call for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I have no plans to develop legislation or guidelines for local authorities in this regard at present. 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, there is currently a civil remedy available through the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Services (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 670 to 672, inclusive, together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not provide funding for services directly but provides funding to housing authorities towards operational costs for homeless accommodation and related services.  Under funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of services from their own resources. Housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not hold information in relation to the status of occupation of a property that is acquired for social housing. In general, properties that are acquired by local authorities or Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) are vacant. However, should a property that is occupied by a social housing tenant in the private rented sector become available on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Homes refurbished under the Voids programme are not classified by the length of time they are vacant and my Department does not collect data in that regard. The programme is designed to support the bringing back into use of units that would likely remain vacant for a significant period of time because the cost of the scale of works required could not be met by the local authority. It...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Expenditure details in respect of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme for the period 2016 to 2018, are set out in the following table. Limerick City and County Council provides a HAP transactional shared service on behalf of all local authorities. This HAP Shared Services Centre (SSC) manages all HAP related rental transactions for the tenant, local authority and landlord....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs.   The suite of grants includes the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant and the Housing Aid for Older People, which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Statistical information in relation to social housing delivery, including across build, acquisition and leasing delivery mechanisms is broken down on a local authority basis and is published on my Department's website at the following link: https://www.housing.gov.ie/node/6338 . A more detailed breakdown of build activity on a local authority basis,  including turnkey delivery, is...