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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities already have powers to make low-cost sites available to individuals, who are qualified for social housing support, and collectively, to voluntary or co-operative not-for-profit housing associations. The Government continues to address affordability specifically.  In particular, for those households earning low to moderate annual gross...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenancy Protection Scheme (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 25 of the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 disapplies its security of tenure rights under Part 4 from Approved Housing Body (AHB) tenancies of up to 18 months in duration relating to designated “transitional dwellings”. Where a lease extends beyond 18 months, then the property in question is no longer considered to be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, I am, as Minister, specifically precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or the Board is or may be concerned, except in very specific circumstances, which do not arise in this case. In addition, it would be inappropriate for me to make any comment on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As is the case with the large majority of development types, there are currently no specific planning guidelines in place in respect of solar farms. Proposals for individual solar farm developments are subject to the statutory requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, in the same manner as other proposed developments, with planning applications made to the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service Staff (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Persons from all walks of life and all sections of society, including staff of local authority fire services, are eligible to be nominated for an award under the National Bravery Awards. Under this scheme, Deeds of Bravery Awards are given to people who have saved a human life involving personal risk to themselves. Comhairle na Míre Gaile - the Council for the recognition of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 and 266 together. The Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical office, compiles and makes available detailed data on a number of housing related issues including housing completions, permissions granted and sales, which in turn inform government policy.   As regards housing supply generally, more...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Administration (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 set out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants in both the private rental sector and the Approved Housing Bodies (AHB) sector. The Acts provide that landlords in the sector must apply to register a tenancy of a dwelling with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) within one month of the commencement of the tenancy. The RTB...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to discuss with the select committee this evening my Department's proposed Supplementary Estimate for 2018. I am accompanied by departmental officials, Ms Mary Hurley, Mr. Sean Hogan, Mr. Niall Cussen and Ms Janet Jacobs. The Revised Estimate for my Department, which was considered by the committee last March, provided for gross expenditure of €3.264...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the questions. We will call it friendly fire for today and we will see what happens tomorrow.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I will start with the last question first. The quarter 3 report is imminent, by which I mean it is on my desk. As soon as I leave this meeting I will send it to the joint committee once I have signed off on it. We can go into more detail on this tomorrow. It will show increased delivery in quarter 3. As we saw in 2017 we will see that the programme for delivery escalates into quarter 3...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On the emergency accommodation spend, for example, the different capital costs for the Sunnybank hub will come to about €4 million. I recently visited the St Stephen's Green facility run by the Peter McVerry Trust. It will come in at about €1.5 million to provide the beds there. Of course, some of the €60 million has been already spent during the year on the hub...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We are talking about getting extra hubs with this money. In the engagements I have had with local authorities through the housing summits and the recent housing body summit we had in September, we discussed programming and greater delivery of family hubs. Local authorities will have a programme, as I said in response to Deputy Ó Broin, but, unfortunately, sometimes a hub cannot be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is not that the hubs are costing us more than we would have expected, necessarily. It is just that the money has been already spent and we have moved money across, and now we are seeking this additional Estimate to cover the money that has been already spent. On the breakdown between the money already spent and that to come, we will know that at the end of the year, depending on how...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Can Deputy Casey repeat that second question please? I am sorry, I did not hear the beginning of it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Approximately 7,900 homes were programmed in to increase the stock of social housing for 2018. As we get to this point in the year, we are trying to ensure we continue to drive delivery as per the targets given for local authorities for 2018. The construction status report provided to the committee this evening will speak more to that and will show that more needs to be done in the final...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We hope to have 24 hubs delivered by the end of the year, with more in the pipeline. We are currently at 20. About 560 family spaces are being provided at the moment in family hubs and we are seeking to increase that all of the time. Chairman:I thank Deputy Casey. I call Deputy Ó Broin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Acquisition is going to be more expensive upfront but then it is going to be a different carrying cost. A lease is over a 25 year period so it carries in a different way. Notwithstanding that, the capital cost of taking on the acquisition also has ongoing liabilities because it is an asset that depreciates over time. We have had to move money to be able to take advantage of these...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The target of 7,869?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes, I am. One of the reasons I looked for the extra money was to make sure we would not only reach 7,869 but, hopefully, exceed it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No thanks.