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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (6 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes information on the overall number and value of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns. Information up to Q2 2018, including in relation to number and value of mortgage drawdowns, is available on the Department's website at the following link: , and this information will be updated on a quarterly basis as additional data is compiled....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (6 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 281 and 282 together. 39 Acts, for which my Department had responsibility, were passed in the period since 2011. Details are set out in the following table, including the date that each Act was signed into law. Some of these Acts, or parts of certain Acts, are no longer the responsibility of my Department due to subsequent changes in the functional...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (6 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has a wide and diverse business agenda which includes a range of social housing programmes under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan, private housing grants, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund, funding of Irish Water, and the Local Government Fund, as well as a range of smaller scale programmes such as rural water schemes, fire services, foreshore regulation, the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I will reply to Deputy Troy's question. I cannot speak to commitments that were given previously or locally but I can say that the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, met officials this morning and raised the commercial rates Bill because it is priority legislation. I will ask him to correspond directly with Deputy Troy on the timelines for its publication and enactment.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. We did have the latest rough sleeper count. It is down on last year but is up since the spring. As we have been planning ahead, we are putting in place emergency beds to ensure 200 new permanent beds come into the system which is more than what we need based on the count. In addition to that, there are also 130 emergency places should something happen.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Those beds are being put in place at the moment. That programme has already begun because we were planning ahead knowing that, what we knew anecdotally from our outreach teams, numbers have been creeping back up again. Beds are being put in place. There is always emergency availability of a cot or other temporary measure. We will have permanent beds in place for 200 people which is more...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I updated the Seanad on this yesterday afternoon. We are about to go to public consultation on the new draft wind guidelines. I have also spoken to the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, about the possibility of solar energy guidelines.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for both those questions. The Deputy is referring to the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme. More applications to the Housing Agency for this scheme have been successful than unsuccessful. More than 1,000 loans have gone through the Housing Agency. The delay is happening at the credit committees at local government level. During the budget process, I reviewed the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is important that when we go out to public consultation on this sensitive but important issue that we get it right to ensure that we do not have to go back to the drawing board later. It took a little more time to finalise these guidelines. They are now finalised and will be going out to public consultation shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Departmental staff can occasionally be seconded to work in EU member states' public sectors with a view to learning and exchanging expertise on a case by case basis. However, there are currently no staff from my Department seconded through such arrangements.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 308 and 309 together. The 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. I initiated the first call for proposals under the Fund in July 2018 and the deadline for submission of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s Energy Policy and Environmental Policy Statements recognise that good environmental performance is as relevant in our workplace as in the home and elsewhere, and is accordingly an integral part of our day-to-day management and activities. The office environment is demanding on many resources, including energy, water, paper, equipment and other consumables. In this...

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am delighted to be here today, with my Government colleagues, to address the Seanad on this very important issue. I want to first talk about the context for my own Department as we address these issues, which is very much set out in Project Ireland 2040, which the Government launched earlier this year. It is the overarching planning and investment framework for the social, economic and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: An examination of records indicates that my Department has provided no funding to the organisation in question in the years 2008 to 2017 or to date in 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested is set out in the following table. Year Commissioned Consultant/Author etc. Name/Description of Report/Review/Study Date or Expected Date of Publication Amount Spent Since March 2011 2011 ARUP Consulting Engineers Study in respect of provision of fire detection and alarms systems in dwellings. Not intended for publication. It is a technical report, to inform work...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (4 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There are four female Assistant Secretaries General/equivalents employed in my Department; the Secretary General is male.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (4 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 688 and 690 together. The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme has proved to be very successful and the take-up of the Scheme in some local authority areas has been greater than was originally envisaged. As a result 10 local authorities, including Kildare County Council have sought increases to their allocations for loan approval. Further funds were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (4 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As with the previous local authority home loan offerings, loan applications under the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan are made directly to the local authority in whose area the property proposed for purchase is situated. My Department publishes information on the overall number and value of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns. Information up to Q2 2018 is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (4 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The 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. I initiated the first call for proposals under the Fund in July 2018 and the deadline for submission of applications was 28 September. A total of 189...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (4 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A grant, funded by my Department, for the provision or necessary improvement of an individual water supply in a house (more commonly called the private wells grant) is available from local authorities. The grant, subject to certain conditions, assists households dependent on these supplies with the costs incurred in providing such a supply of water for domestic purposes or rectifying serious...