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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not collate or hold a full register of State owned land in County Meath. However, given the importance of ensuring that public land suitable for residential development is brought forward for the development of social and affordable housing, the residential lands in the ownership of the Housing Agency, local authorities and certain other public bodies, including lands in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Registration of Title (26 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 120 of the Registration of Title Act 1964 (the 1964 Act) provides for the payment of compensation in circumstances where a claimant has suffered a verifiable loss as a result of an error originating in the Property Registration Authority (the PRA). The error must be in relation to registered land (whether of misstatement, misdescription, omission or otherwise, and whether in a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (26 Sep 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 accommodation and related services rests with individual housing authorities. Data in the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: In direct response to the housing challenge and in order to support housing authorities deliver on their responsibilities and obligations, a number of dedicated structures have been put in place in the Dublin region and nationally. The Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) is provided by Dublin City Council as the lead statutory local authority in the response to homelessness in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Development contributions are levied by planning authorities on the basis of development contribution schemes that are approved by the elected members of the relevant authority.  These schemes set out the types of development to which contributions will apply, and the associated level of payment required, across each individual authority.  As development contribution schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (26 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...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: That is correct. I had the privilege recently of meeting with a young mother with a young child who were homeless. She told me her own personal story through tears because she felt ashamed about the situation she was in and I apologised to her because she had to spend three weeks in a hotel. She should never have been in that hotel. We were talking in the hub that she is now in and she...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Proposals are about to go to Cabinet on this, but the intention is to have a plebiscite of the people in the four cities that were named. I will consider the point about an assembly to consider the issue regarding a Dublin mayor.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Sinn Féin supported 4%.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Sinn Féin supported them.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Library Services Staff (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible. My Department has approved Kerry County Council's Library Service Workforce Plan. The delegated sanction conveyed by my Department to the County Council...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department launched the National Taking-in-Charge Initiative (NTICI) in April 2016 to trial new approaches and working methods in supporting and accelerating overall national and local action on the taking-in-charge process of housing estates, including estates with developer-provided water services infrastructure (DPI). Under the terms of the NTICI, which was underpinned by €10...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The new Land Development Agency, which was established earlier this month, will act as a national centre of expertise, working with and supporting local authorities, public bodies and other interests, to harness public lands as catalysts to stimulate regeneration and wider investment and to achieve compact, sustainable growth, with a particular emphasis on complex regeneration projects,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 516 and 517 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. This has always been part of the application process for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan since its launch and there...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 519 and 520 together. Current local authority rent differential schemes generally set out that assessable income is net of statutory deductions such as income tax, PRSI, universal social charge, pension deductions, etc, which is in line with the Household Means Policy, which local authorities must use in assessing an applicant’s eligibility for social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 521 and 522 together. The setting and publishing of social housing targets for 2018 and 2018-2021 reflects a drive towards increased transparency and accountability. Rebuilding Ireland is modelled on blended delivery across the main programmes of build, acquisition and leasing. While it is recognised that the pace of delivery, particularly under build...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In July 2015, a review was undertaken by an independent fire expert to develop a framework for general application, in the interest of supporting owners and residents living in developments where concerns regarding non-compliance with fire safety requirements arise.This review included a case study at the estate referred to by the Deputy. This review was completed and the 'Framework for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Controls (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 24A of the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004, as amended, provides that the Housing Agency, in consultation with housing authorities, may make a proposal to the Minister that an area should be considered as a Rent Pressure Zone.Following receipt of such a proposal, the Minister requests the Director of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) to conduct an assessment of the area to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, in respect of private housing. The schemes are 80% funded by my Department, with a 20% contribution from the local authorities. For 2018, the financial provision for the Schemes is €66.25 million, comprising €53 million exchequer funding and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Mid-Year Expenditure Report 2018, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform last July, sets out expenditure ceilings in respect of my Department in 2019, including an increase of €402 million in capital expenditure over 2018. The figures set out in the Report do not include expenditure savings targets specifically earmarked for my Department. The specific...