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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: For 2018, I announced funding of €66.25m nationally for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability.  This included an allocation of €1,457,964 for Cavan County Council, comprising exchequer funding of €1,166,371 and €291,593 from the local authority. Following a request for increased funding, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: For 2018, I announced funding of €66.25 million nationally for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability.  This included an allocation of €1,237,425 for Monaghan County Council, comprising exchequer funding of €989,940 and €247,485 from the local authority. Following a request for increased funding, the Council was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (13 Dec 2018)

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: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 224 and 227 together. The provisions of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, are designed to enable the development of mixed tenure sustainable communities. Part V units are excluded from the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme 2016 to ensure that units delivered under this mechanism will remain available for people in need of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 225 and 226 together. The Government’s Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is firmly focused on increasing supply to meet social housing needs under a range of programmes in all counties, including Cavan and Monaghan, with 50,000 social homes to be delivered through build, acquisition and leasing in the period to 2021, as well as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply Contamination (13 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of the planning, delivery and operation of public water and wastewater services at national, regional and local levels. As Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, I have no direct role in relation to the planning, delivery and operation of water and wastewater services, and I must...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (13 Dec 2018)

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 consideration...

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: He does it all the time.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy said it was and it is not. We have to make a distinction between evictions and notices of termination. Even when we look at notices of termination, given the make-up of the rental sector that we have today we have to be careful in interfering more than we are at the moment. We have to make sure we are not placing extra burdens on small landlords and we have to make sure that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the committee for affording me the opportunity to update it on progress made under the implementation of Rebuilding Ireland. I am joined today by Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General, and assistant secretaries, Ms Maria Graham, Ms Mary Hurley and Mr. Paul Lemass. Supporting families, individuals and citizens who are experiencing homelessness and whose lives are being affected by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In his opening comments Senator Boyhan talked about the importance of having targets. I agree with that because targets bring transparency and provide for accountability. Targets also help us drive delivery, although we do not always reach those targets, but they will also show us what is working and what is not, so it is important that we have them and work to them. Regarding the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for his questions and for acknowledging the huge amount of work done by the officials. It is always appreciated when they are acknowledged for the hard work they do. They give this committee a lot of time and they are happy to do so. As the Deputy said, we are roughly half way through Rebuilding Ireland. While the spend on emergency accommodation has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Will I get an opportunity to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The committee was provided with a report detailing the number of people successfully in HAP accommodation. We have tenanted at least 40,000 through the HAP programme and it is working for those people. We are not seeing an abnormal number of people exiting HAP as a result of the tenancy breaking down compared to what is the case in the traditional private rental market. HAP is not having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We see HAP as meeting the housing need of those people because they are able to stay in that accommodation and continue to work or increase their hours of work. If the lease is discontinued for whatever reason, the person can move to another accommodation and still avail of HAP support. Approximately 1,500 people exited HAP via the transfer list into the permanent stock of social housing,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Some 1,600 people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We will spend €422 million next year on HAP. That will support those currently in HAP tenancies and fund the creation of new HAP tenancies. As I stated, we will reach a tipping point in 2020 and 2021, which is the final year of Rebuilding Ireland. By that time, the building of social housing by local authorities and housing bodies will have recovered sufficiently such that people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In terms of the passing of the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This is the first of two rent Bills. We have tried to bring forward in the first rent Bill measures on which all Deputies and Senators can agree such that it can pass through the Houses quickly. I hope Oireachtas Members do not table amendments dealing with other possibly more complex areas which can be covered in a further Bill. We need to get this Bill enacted quickly because these are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputies for their questions. Deputy O'Dowd referred to the changing nature of our towns and villages and he is absolutely right about how we need to rethink that whole area. That is why in talking about rebuilding our housing sector, we are not talking about recreating what was there before. We need to build a new one. That means more people living in towns and centres and a...