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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The recently established Land Development Agency will act as a new commercial State body to actively manage the development of public land in a way that will make a major contribution to tackling the root causes of our current housing issues, including bringing about major new opportunities for additional social and affordable housing on public lands. The Agency has a potentially very...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Previous Ministerial functions regarding the compulsory acquisition of land by local authorities under a number of enactments were transferred to An Bord Pleanála with effect from January 2001, under the provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2000. Accordingly, I have no function in relation to the making or confirmation of compulsory purchase orders (CPOs). Given the statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Meetings (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The local government sector receives funding from a number of different sources, including central Government. It is a matter for each elected Council to decide its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process, having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources. Section 45(5) of the Local Government Act 2001 states that a local authority may,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the 2018 social housing delivery targets, including build targets, can be accessed on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link: . The published build targets include both local authority and approved housing body construction projects, turnkey schemes, regeneration schemes and void homes being brought back into active use through remedial build activity. Data in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate housing support that is available to all social housing eligible households throughout the State. At the end of Q2 2018, there were more than 37,700 active tenancies in receipt of HAP support and over 21,000 separate landlords and agents involved in providing accommodation to those households. HAP commenced in Galway County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Considerable work has been ongoing between the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH), a number of larger Tier 3 Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) and their financial advisors on the development of a vehicle or mechanism for delivering private financing for AHBs providing social housing in line with commitments under the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (14 Nov 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: Wind Energy Guidelines (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. As part of the overall review, a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is being undertaken on the revised Guidelines before they come into effect, in accordance with the requirements of EU Directive 2001/24/EC on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A funding investment in excess of €6 billion is being provided over the period 2016-2021 to support the implementation of Rebuilding Ireland, which aims to deliver 50,000 social housing units over the period 2016 to 2021. Over €2.35 billion has been expended on housing programmes over 2016 and 2017, which delivered homes for over 19,000 households in 2016 and a further 25,900...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 284 and 285 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 1211 of 6 November 2018 which sets out the position in this matter. The new arrangements involved will be completed in good time ahead of their intended introduction on 1 June 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Parliament Elections (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A decision on the number of representatives to be elected to the European Parliament in each Member State for the 2019-2024 parliamentary term was made by the European Council on 28 June 2018. Council Decision (EU) 2018/937 provides for 13 members to be elected in Ireland for the 2019-2024 parliamentary term. This necessitated a review of European Parliament constituencies in Ireland and,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In keeping with the spirit of the provisions for the refund of domestic water charges under the Water Services Act 2017, and the earlier recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services on this matter, all reasonable efforts continue to be made to refund in full the amounts due to relevant domestic customers of Irish Water. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 292 to 295, inclusive, together. My Department is supporting local authorities in the provision of new build social housing through a range of different initiatives, including the construction of social homes on their own lands and through working in partnership with private developers to deliver social housing construction through turnkey arrangements....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Disabled Persons Grant Scheme provides funding to all local authorities to undertake adaptations and extensions to their existing social housing stock. €404,477 has been made available to Kildare County Council for this purpose in 2018. An application for additional funding has been received from the Council and is currently under consideration. My Department also provides...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area are provided in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA), which has been carried out on an annual basis since 2016. The results of each SSHA are available on my Department’s website and include breakdowns by each local authority across a range of categories. Details...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Nov 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. In addition, in order to support the affordable housing programmes of local authorities, the Government has committed €310 million, over the three years 2019 to 2021,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (14 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The development of publicly owned residential lands for social and affordable housing is a top priority for this Government. In this context, together with developing a significant build programme on their existing residential land bank, local authorities are also required to consider the availability of land for housing, particularly social and affordable housing, within their area of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (14 Nov 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, 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 basic needs, plus...

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for tabling this Bill. I welcome the opportunity to speak on housing. It is an opportunity this House has every week and we must use it because it is a crisis. It is an emergency, as the Taoiseach has recognised. I very much welcome the spirit of the Bill. It has been tabled in an attempt to help people who are really suffering. All the Deputies in this House know...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. We had the daft.iereport very recently. We have the report coming from the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, in December for the third quarter. It works to a much more comprehensive data set. It will tell us that rents are increasing and that in many parts of the country rents are too high and unsustainably high for people who are trying to pay them...