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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has received a request from Cavan County Council for increased funding and it is currently being examined with a view to a decision being made shortly. My Department works closely with local authorities to achieve a full drawdown of their funding allocations and there is careful scrutiny of spend, with any underspend redistributed to those local authorities with high levels of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 246 and 247 together. The 2009 Planning System and Flood Risk Management Guidelines clearly set out planning policy with respect to flood risk assessment and the planning system. These guidelines are applicable to assessing the implications of coastal flooding which may arise from climate change or major weather events. Clear technical guidance is given...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Sale of State Assets (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Prior to publication of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, it was planned to establish a financial vehicle to facilitate the aggregation of private investment into a fund for subsequent lending as project finance. The intention was that this investment would be off-balance sheet and in Budget 2015, the Government announced that €400m of public investment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016. The Scheme is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme. To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable income of €15,000 per annum and having been in receipt of social housing support...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Vacant Site levy provisions, planning authorities are empowered to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market value of relevant vacant sites where a site exceeds 0.05 hectares in area, was in the planning authority’s opinion vacant or idle in 2018, and is in an area identified by the planning authority in its development plan or local area plan for residential or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Development contributions are levied as conditions attached to planning permissions and are payable prior to commencement of development or as otherwise agreed by the local authority. Local authorities may facilitate the phased payment of contributions, such as when units are completed or when a stage is reached in the development. Local authorities operate on an accrual accounting basis...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In April, the Minister for Finance published the Draft Stability Programme Update (SPU) for 2018. This included an analysis of the financial impact of the Eurostat decision to reclassify the majority of Tier 3 Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) as part of the local government sector. This was an important first step in the Government's assessment as to the impact of the Eurostat...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Review Into Certain Planning Matters In Respect Of Donegal County Council by Mr. Rory Mulcahy SC was received by my Department in June last year. Following initial analysis and assessment of the report’s findings and recommendations, including interaction with the Department’s own legal advisors and the Attorney General’s Office, a comprehensive set of queries...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 255, 259 and 262 to 265, inclusive, together. The active management of the publicly owned housing land bank continues as a key part of a range of complementary actions being progressed under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, designed to accelerate and increase housing output. To this end, details of some 1,700 hectares of land in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 257 together. The income eligibility bands for access to social housing support, 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 a comparative analysis of the local rental cost of housing accommodation across the country. It is important to note that the limits...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Repossessions (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, I have no role or function in the regulation or policy making in relation to the banking sector. Regulation of banking and financial services comes within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Finance.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (27 Sep 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). The most recently conducted SSHA, carried out in June 2018, details the number of households on all local authority waiting lists as at 11 June 2018 (the count date). The SSHA has been conducted on an annual basis...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 261 and 270 together. The Government’s Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is firmly focused on increasing supply to meet social housing needs under a range of programmes in all counties, with the target to deliver 50,000 social homes through build, acquisition and leasing in the period to 2021, as well as meeting the housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (27 Sep 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). The most recently conducted SSHA, carried out in June 2018, details the number of households on all local authority waiting lists as at 11 June 2018 (the count date). The results show that, on the count date, 71,858...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 267 to 269, inclusive, together. 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...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome the fact that the Deputy recognises that the HAP is working. Of course it can be improved. Not every Deputy in this House recognises the considerable support the HAP is giving to people who are at risk of homelessness or coming out of emergency accommodation. Tens of thousands of people throughout the country have been supported. Some individuals, for ideological reasons, refuse...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I acknowledge his hard work and dedication on it. We have been in contact on HAP and homelessness prevention measures on a number of occasions. The Deputy has been working with my staff over recent months to bring various concerns to my attention. He has explained his concerns about the terms and consistency of application of homeless HAP in his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (26 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Question No. 799 of the 18 September 2018 which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (26 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Following engagement with the credit union sector on proposals for credit unions to provide funding for the provision of social housing, the Central Bank undertook a review of the relevant investment framework in 2017. On foot of this review, revised Regulations commenced on 1 March 2018. The revised Regulations included the addition of investment in “regulated investment vehicles...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (26 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On 21 September I announced the final funding allocations for 2018 under my Department's Multi-annual Rural Water Programme. The group water scheme that the Deputy refers to is located in the jurisdiction of Limerick City and County Council and my announcement included an allocation of €80,000 to the Council under Measure 1(b) of the programme for the scheme. Measure 1(b) provides...