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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Regulation 6(4) of the Affordable Housing (No. 2) Regulations 2023 prescribes that the affordable dwelling contribution made by a local authority for the purposes of Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021 shall be not less than 5% and not greater than 40% of the market value of the home concerned. Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021 applies where a local authority provides an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Area Plans (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The provision of amenities and services is a core element of the statutory plan-making process and is key to promoting the development of balanced and sustainable communities. Section 10 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 requires planning authorities to include objectives in their development plan to integrate social, community and cultural objectives with planning for residential and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Exemptions from the requirement to obtain planning permission in respect of specific forms of development are provided for when they are considered to be consistent with proper planning and sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022-2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). Social Housing is delivered through a range of local authority and Approved Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Cost Rental Tenant In-Situ (CRTiS) scheme was introduced on 1 April 2023 for tenants in private rental homes who are at risk of homelessness because a landlord has served a valid Notice of Termination due to an intention to sell the property. The Local Authority conducts the initial assessment for eligibility of the tenant for this scheme and refers potential cases to the Housing Agency,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: 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: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity by local authorities and AHBs in each local authority area. This data, which is gathered on a local authority-wide basis, is available to the end of Q1 2024 and is published on the statistics' page of my Department’s website at the following link: My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on social housing delivery activity in all local authority areas on the statistics page of its website. The data requested is not available by municipal area but by local authority administrative area and can be found on my Department’s website at this link: . The following table sets out the HAP Landlord Payments for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: An integral part of maintaining and improving the quality and reliability of rural water supplies is the annual subsidy, payable by Local Authorities, towards the operational and management costs of Group Water Schemes (GWS) supplying water for domestic use. The type and amount of operational subsidy payable to an individual GWS is dependent on a number of factors and is structured to take...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Council (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1089 and 1199 together. The table below outlines the current and capital funding allocated by my Department to the Heritage Council in each year for the past five years. - 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Current (€m) 3.92 5.26 5.76 7.14 8.04 Capital (€m) 2.69 4.30 6.30 7.20 8.55 Total (€m) 6.605 9.56 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: A flagship element of Project Ireland 2040, the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) was one of four new funds established under the National Development Plan (NDP) 2018 – 2027. Launched in 2018 with committed Exchequer funding of €2 billion the review of the NDP in 2021 extended the URDF to 2030. To date, there have been three rounds of funding provided under the URDF...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: In January this year I launched the Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2024-2026 (MARWP) and invited local authorities to submit applications for funding with a closing date of 12 April 2024. Under the MARWP Programme, all applications received by the Department undergo a two stage evaluation process. Stage one involves my Department assessing each application to determine eligibility under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1096, 1136, 1140, 1196, 1201, 1209, 1211, 1218 and 1219 together. Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing out to 2030 including 54,000 affordable homes to be delivered by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency and through the First Home Scheme, which is a strategic partnership...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On 5 June Government approved a Local Authority Purchase and Renovation Loan (LAPR), which is an expansion of the Local Authority Home Loan, to support the purchase and renovation of homes which are eligible for the existing Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant. The introduction of the Local Authority Purchase and Renovation Loan significantly expands the number of homes eligible under current...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Local authorities, in their capacity as registration authorities, are responsible for the management and maintenance of the electoral register. It is the duty of each authority to ensure, as far as possible, and with the cooperation of the public, the accuracy and completeness of the register in respect of its own administrative area. An tárd Chláraitheoir, the General Register...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1105 and 1150 together. Housing for All commits to developing proposals to review the existing differential rent system and to provide for a standardised, national local authority social housing rent model. The objective is to develop and implement a model that provides the best blend between fairness, progressivity and sustainability. My Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The HAP Scheme continues to plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals. At the end of Q1 2024, over 119,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were nearly 55,758 households actively in receipt of HAP support. The 2024 budget allocation of €525 million will enable continued support for existing tenancies along with funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1109, 1179 and 1212 together. Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1110, 1163 and 1193 together. The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Therefore, ongoing data in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1111 and 1112 together. Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022-2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). Social Housing is delivered...