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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Home ownership rates have decreased for a variety of reasons. For example, people are staying longer in education, households are forming later in life, smaller households are forming and people are more mobile in where they work and how they live. We need to ensure that owning a home continues to be an aspiration for many people and that we can provide for it. In the first quarter of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 25 and 26 together. Under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Government's commitment to an ambitious delivery agenda for social housing is clear and substantial progress continues to be made to expand the social housing programme significantly from a virtual standstill position a number of years ago. As Minister, I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Security of tenure provisions under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 apply once a tenant has been in occupation of a dwelling under tenancy for a continuous period of 6 months, with no valid notice of termination having been served during that time. If a landlord is terminating the tenancy on the grounds that he or she intends to substantially refurbish or renovate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 37 and 88 together. The Government, working with the local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies and other delivery agents, is already exceeding the social housing delivery targets set for the first two years of Rebuilding Ireland. Just under 45,000 households have had their housing need met by the end of year 2 of the Rebuilding Ireland Plan – 33%...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 39, 59 and 84 together. A motion to refer the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, which dealt with economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to housing, to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, was passed by the Dáil on 28 September 2017 and by the Seanad on 11 October 2017. This...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 40, 60, 79, 85 and 87 together. Ensuring that we have a supply of housing that is affordable, particularly for households on low to moderate incomes, is a major priority for this Government. Recognising that people want a choice of affordable purchase and rental, depending on their stage of life and circumstances, both are being progressed through a range...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 43, 44, 54, 63 and 71 together. St. Michael’s Estate is one of three significant sites being brought forward by Dublin City Council under its housing land initiative, HLI, the aim of which is to ensure the delivery of mixed-tenure homes in the Dublin City Council functional area. All three sites under the HLI are identified as strategic development...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under sections 48 and 49 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, planning authorities may attach conditions to planning permissions charging development contributions in respect of public infrastructure and facilities provided by, or on behalf of, the local authority that benefit development in the area. Development contributions are levied by planning authorities on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Agencies Funding (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As part of Budget 2018, the Minister for Finance announced the Government's intention to establish Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI) to provide funding to viable residential development projects in the State, whose owners are experiencing difficulty obtaining debt funding. With a fund of up to €750 million, HBFI will have the capacity to fund the supply of approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In 2017,  local authorities and approved housing bodies delivered 2,297 build homes across the country. This comprised 1,014 homes delivered by local authorities, 761 build homes delivered by approved housing bodies and a further 522 Part V homes were delivered by local authorities and approved housing bodies. In addition, a further 1,757 social homes were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme is operated by the local authorities.  As is currently the case, my Department will continue to publish information on the overall number and value of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns.  Information up to Q3 2017 is available on the Department's website at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 50, 69 and 73 together. 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 accommodation and related services rests with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The development of any residential land in housing authority ownership is in the first instance a matter for the local authority concerned, including its elected members.  I want to see local authorities realise new social and affordable homes from their lands without delay, with particular emphasis on prioritising those sites with the greatest potential to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (20 Jun 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Demand for social housing is met in a variety of ways including through the private rental sector under schemes such as the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) and the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme.  Using a variety of mechanisms to deliver social housing makes social housing supports more responsive and flexible, ensures a better mix between private and social housing and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 57 and 62 together. Details of the number of houses that have been built and acquired by local authorities, including in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in each of the years 2013 to 2017, are published and available on my Department's website at the following link: http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 70 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 enquiries to local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 61 and 81 together. Under Action 18 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector, my Department established a Working Group, involving representatives of all major public stakeholders with a policy interest in short-term lettings, to develop guidance in relation to planning applications, changes of use relating to short-term lettings and to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As housing authorities, local authorities are responsible for the identification of the social housing need in their area and for the development of appropriate responses to the need identified. Local authorities now have substantial pipelines of new social housing projects, details of which can be seen in the quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Reports...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2016-2018 was developed through a working group of key stakeholders involving local authorities, the Water Services Transition Office, Irish Water and the National Federation of Group Water Schemes, as well as my Department. The programme provides for the funding of demonstration group sewerage schemes, through measure 4(d), where clustering of...