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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Any household assessed as eligible for social housing is immediately eligible for housing support through the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme. Once a household has been deemed eligible for social housing support, it is a matter for the local authority to examine the suite of social housing supports available, including the HAP scheme, to determine the most appropriate form of social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Transport Initiatives (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Arising from the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, my Department is funding an initiative to provide homeless families residing in hotel accommodation and family hubs in the Dublin Region with access to free public transport for essential school journeys. The Dublin Region Homeless Executive is overseeing implementation of this initiative and, working in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Detailed data in relation to social housing delivery by each local authority, for the years 2015 to 2017, is available on my Department's website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/attachments/1a2-sh-20 15-2017-brkdn-final_2018_v3_0.xlsx. The Government is committed to ensuring that housing is affordable, particularly for households on low to moderate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties Data (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Voids Programme, introduced in 2014 by my Department, provides additional support to local authorities in preparing vacant units for re-letting. The purpose of the Voids Programme is to ensure that vacant units are actively targeted, with a view to minimising the turnaround and re-let time of these units and return them to use in an energy efficient condition. During 2017, my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Turf Cutting (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department, in consultation with the Environment Protection Agency, is actively progressing the drafting of European Union Regulations with a view to putting in place as speedily as possible a robust and effective legislative underpinning for a proposed new regulatory system for the large-scale peat extraction sector. Under the new system, the Agency will be required to carry out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: To end Quarter 1 2018, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) had identified 6,984 units, associated with the security for loans that NAMA has acquired, that could be made available for social housing. Many of these units were in unfinished housing developments or developments that required significant remediation work. All of the units identified by NAMA, regardless of their condition,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Over the period 2016-2021, under Rebuilding Ireland, 50,000 additional social homes are to be delivered through build, acquisition and leasing schemes. Through the supports made available from my Department, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through a range of initiatives, including, where appropriate, the acquisition of new and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Turf Cutting (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 636 and 637 together. At the end of 2016 local authorities reported that there were 20,306 Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) tenancies in place, with total expenditure in 2016 for the scheme of just under €131 million. My Department is currently collating 2017 RAS data, which includes the number of tenancies in place at the end of 2017, received...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 638 and 639 together. The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) supports the delivery of social housing by providing financial support to local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for the leasing of houses and apartments. These properties are either privately owned or owned by AHBs. Properties made available under the programme are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Aid for Older People Scheme provides grants of up to €8,000 to assist older people living in poor housing conditions to have necessary repairs or improvement works carried out. The grant eligible works include the provision of heating and any repair or improvement works which are considered reasonably necessary. The Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Transport (29 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government decided on 15 March 2011 that, with the exception of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality who continued to retain their State cars and Garda drivers, the travel arrangements then in place for Ministers of State would apply to all Ministers.  The new travel regime for Ministers took effect from 1 May 2011.  Since then no ministerial cars...

Report on Building Standards, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Motion (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputies for the report which addresses a fundamental concern that has a direct impact on the daily life of many living in the State. Stronger compliance with building standards has been to the forefront of our building control reform agenda which was initiated in 2011 when a high level working group reviewed the existing building control regulatory framework. The key deficits...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The commercial rates Bill is priority legislation. I and my officials have had several meetings with the Attorney General in recent weeks to ensure that we can have the draft legislation published as soon as possible. I had hoped that would happen this months but I have assurances that we will have it in June. There is one particular issue we are trying to finalise with the Attorney...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am in conversation with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment about the development of guidelines for solar energy and solar farms.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputies should stop abusing their position.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. We obviously have a duty of care to the citizens of our country to make sure we are providing for them. That is why Rebuilding Ireland is a €6 billion commitment to bring 50,000 new homes into the social housing stock and, more than that, to use the private rental sector to look after people who are on the housing lists and who need housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The development of residential lands owned by local authorities and the Housing Agency, for social housing and, where appropriate, for mixed-tenure developments, is a major priority under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness. To this end, details of some 1,700 hectares of land in local authority and Housing Agency ownership were published on the Rebuilding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitment given in Rebuilding Ireland, a review of the first 12 months of the Tenant Purchase Scheme’s operation has been undertaken. The review has incorporated analysis of comprehensive data received from local authorities regarding the operation of the scheme during 2016 and a wide-ranging public consultation process which took place in 2017 and saw submissions...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In the first instance, it is the responsibility for Northern Ireland or UK authorities to ensure that they comply fully with the obligations under relevant EU obligations, including in respect of transboundary consultation requirements under the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (the Espoo Convention) and Directive 2011/92/EU relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 219 and 220 together. Section 174 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and Chapter 5 of Part 10 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, relating to consultations about the transboundary environmental effects of proposed developments that are subject to environmental impact assessment (EIA), comply fully with the requirements of...