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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (9 Oct 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: Regeneration Projects (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: To support the work of the newly established Land Development Agency, LDA, the Government has agreed new policies requiring that a minimum of 30% of public lands coming forward for redevelopment and/or disposal are to be reserved for affordable housing purposes, in addition to the statutory requirement for 10% social housing under the existing Part V provisions. The balance of 60% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Summary of Social Housing Assessment, SSHA, process requires all housing authorities to review those households who are on their housing list but who are not currently in receipt of housing support. This is to ensure that the details of the applicant households are up to date and accurate and that they remain eligible for, and in need of, social housing support in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 514 and 515 together. The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) provides fast, flexible housing support to households in an area of their choice. Individuals with a housing need, who in the past were reluctant to avail of full time work as they would lose their Rent Supplement support, can now move to HAP and avail of full-time work and retain their housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Court of Human Rights Rulings (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 25 September 2018. As indicated in my previous reply, the working group referred to has concluded its deliberations and, taking account of the group's analysis and recommended outcome, my Department has been engaging with the European Commission on the matter with a view to issuing to planning authorities, by the end of this year,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The application of a household means test in relation to the housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability is designed to achieve fairness and value for money, while focusing funding on those with greatest needs. For the purposes of the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability, household income is calculated as the annual gross income of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties Data (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 518 and 528 together. My Department does not keep data on the number of vacant or void local authority houses at a particular point in time. However, statistics in relation to social housing are compiled by the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, in its annual reports on Performance Indicators in Local Authorities. These statistics are set out by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless services, including accommodation, rests with individual housing authorities. The matter raised by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless services, including accommodation, rests with individual housing authorities. The matter raised by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless services, including accommodation, rests with individual housing authorities. The matter raised by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 523 and 524 together. Data on the number of social homes delivered by local authorities is published on my Department's website at the following link: . This data includes the number of properties constructed, purchased and leased by all local authorities in previous years. In addition, my Department also publishes quarterly information on the pipeline of new...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are funded to deliver social housing in a number of ways but there is no requirement for local authorities to deliver social houses on sites provided by an applicant approved for social housing support, as it is a matter for them to select and prioritise projects to meet their overall housing need. It is the local authorities that are responsible for the identification of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 160 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), relating to unauthorised development, does not provide for a ministerial order in relation to environmental impact assessment. Section 30 of the Act specifically precludes the Minister from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. While local authorities have a general responsibility for the monitoring, management and improvement of water quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is the supervisory authority for public water supplies. The EPA...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Weather Events Expenditure (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 2009, my Department has made financial support available to assist local authorities in meeting the costs of clean-up and necessary immediate works associated with the response to significant severe weather emergency events. This is in recognition of the exceptional nature of activities carried out by local authorities in responding to these types of emergencies and the fact that the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Following a Review of the Mortgage to Rent (MTR) Scheme, published on 8 February 2017, a range of amendments to the eligibility criteria and administration of the MTR scheme came into effect to enable more properties to qualify and to make the scheme more flexible and accessible to borrowers. The Review, available at the following link: , explored the impediments to participation in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (9 Oct 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 does not directly collect information on the number of loan applications received by each local authority. However, as is currently the case, my Department will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund is designed to activate housing supply by putting in place the enabling public infrastructure necessary to ensure that large scale development can take place on key sites in urban areas of high housing demand. Final approval was given for 30 projects under LIHAF in 2017 and early 2018, and these projects will stimulate development of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Central Statistics Office Remit (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department's Statistics and Data Analytics Unit (SDAU) recently collaborated with the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and ESB Networks to significantly enhance the production of statistics in the area of housing completions. In relation to other output statistics, the SDAU and the relevant business units work on the compilation of social housing output statistics using data supplied to my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Agreement on Part V arrangements is a matter for local authorities. The current options available to local authorities for Part V delivery are: - the transfer of ownership of land, subject to the planning permission application, to a local authority for the provision of social housing remains the default option as is currently the case. The land option must be acceptable to the local...