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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: Section 177K(1C)(a) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 ("the 2000 Act"), as amended by section 8 of the Planning and Development, and Residential Tenancies, Act 2020, provides that An Bord Pleanála ("the Board") shall, in relation to an application for substitute consent pending on 19 December 2020 invite the applicant to provide information as the applicant considers material for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas.  The Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist housing authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. Following a review of the arrangements for the disbursement of funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Community (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes in their areas. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Community (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, the housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: My Department provides €5,000 to the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) annually to run seminars, briefings and webinars on Access & Equality. The LGMA inform and raise awareness in the local government sector through conferences and webinars. In 2018, a joint conference was held with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, the purpose of this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes in their areas. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: As the Deputy will be aware, it was agreed previously by Government that with effect from 1st January 2011, starting pay on recruitment from open competition for all posts within the public service should be at the minimum of the relevant salary scale. My Department issued Circular EL 02/2011 to all Chief Executives in the Local Government sector, following receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: My Department proactively engages with local authorities with a view to ensuring that the vacant site levy achieves its full potential in terms of bringing concerned sites into productive use. In this regard, my Department issued Circular Letter PL 03/2021 on 8 March 2021 requesting the submission of a progress report on the collection of the levy by each local authority. The Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Yield (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended by the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011, provides the legislative basis for the non-principal private residence (NPPR) charge. The NPPR charge, which has since been discontinued, applied in the years 2009 to 2013 to any residential property in which the owner did not reside as their normal place of residence. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: The Government remains committed to ensuring that the local government sector retains a sustainable and stable source of funding from Local Property Tax (LPT), distributed to local authorities via the Local Government Fund, to support the delivery of local authority services. The current LPT local retention policy began in 2015 and since then, 80% of the estimated LPT liability in each...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: Housing needs of people with disabilities are addressed in the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability (NHSPWD) 2016-2021.  A new NHSPWD, is currently being developed by my Department and the Department of Health, with a view to publishing by the end of 2021. The strategy is about facilitating the provision of housing options and related services to disabled people to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: A review of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability (NHSPWD) 2011-2021 commenced in March 2021, conducted by the Housing Agency. The first round of consultation which comprised a wide-ranging questionnaire on the existing strategy and priorities for its successor took place in March and April. A large volume of responses were received which are now being assessed and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 680, 701 and 797 together. The Department does not hold the data on the amount of vacant or derelict housing units in the State.  Under section 8(5) of the Derelicts Sites Act, 1990, a copy of the derelict sites register for any local authority can be inspected at the offices of that authority during office hours. Therefore, the specified information in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: In relation to the issue of a half-acre minimum site size that the Deputy has raised, I understand that some county development plans may include particular physical site requirements for a proposed new house in rural areas. Any such minimum development site size requirements are generally for the purpose of addressing issues that frequently arise where new homes are proposed - for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: Class 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (the Regulations), sets out the planning exemption provisions for house extensions, referred to as "development within the curtilage of a house", as follows: “The extension of a house, by the construction or erection of an extension (including a conservatory) to the rear of the house or by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: New legislative reforms to regulate the short-term letting sector through the planning code, in areas designated as “rent pressure zones” (RPZs), were introduced by my Department on 1 July 2019. In essence, the legislation requires home-sharers letting rooms in their principal private residence located within a RPZ, or letting the entire property subject to a maximum of 90 days...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 705, 706, 707, 713, 714 and 715 together. The funding system that applies to local authorities is a complex one, as authorities derive their income from a variety of local sources including commercial rates, charges for goods and services and funding from Central Government. Central Government funding of local authorities similarly presents a complex picture,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 708 and 716 together. The funding system that applies to local authorities in Ireland is a complex one, as those authorities derive their income from a variety of sources including commercial rates, charges for goods and services and funding from Central Government including my Department but also other government departments and state agencies. Most of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (27 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 717 and 718 together. My Department conducts annual reviews of funding as part of the Estimates Process in consultation with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER). In addition to these reviews, we engage in monthly reporting to DPER on both current and capital expenditure. We also conduct reviews of capital expenditure in the form of a...