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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commencement of Legislation (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: All sections of the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006 have been commenced and details regarding the relevant Statutory Instruments and their commencement dates are available on the Irish Statute Book at .

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 599 and 600 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 associated services for homeless...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 601 and 602 together. The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is funded through a combination of Exchequer monies and tenant differential rents collected in respect of HAP tenancies. Budget 2018 has increased the Exchequer funding for the HAP scheme by €149m to €301 million. This will allow for the continued support of existing HAP households...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Enforcement of Part IV of the Housing Act 1966, which deals with overcrowding, is a matter for each local authority in its role as housing authority for its relevant functional area. The information requested by the Deputy is not collected by my Department. Under that Act, a housing authority may request information from the owner or occupier of a house such as will allow that authority...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I recently announced funding of €66.25 million nationally for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, which includes €1,367,534 for Sligo County Council, comprising Exchequer funding of €1,094,027, along with €273,507 from the local authority. Details of the allocations are available on my Department’s website at the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A range of housing options are necessary to ensure a supply of accommodation to meet different types of social housing need. Harnessing the off-balance sheet potential of private investment in social housing is an important objective of the Government and the social housing targets set out in Rebuilding Ireland over the period to 2021 reflect the ambition in that regard. Of the 50,000 social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 609 to 611, inclusive, together. The Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability were introduced on 1 November 2007. The schemes provide a range of grants for necessary improvement works or adaptations to houses in order to facilitate the continued independent occupancy of their own homes by older people and people with a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Contracts (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is currently responsible for the development of one PPP programme for housing, which involves an investment with a capital value of €300 million, with the aim of delivering 1,500 social housing homes in total, via three bundles. Other PPP programmes, such as those designed to deliver schools or medical facilities, would be the responsibility of the Ministers for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (22 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 615 and 616 together. The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 introduced new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments (SHDs) of 100 housing units or more or student accommodation developments of 200 bed spaces or more, to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála (the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chairman and members of the committee for the opportunity to appear again before the committee, this time to give them an update on the progress made in terms of implementation of Rebuilding Ireland in the first quarter of this year. I am joined this afternoon by Mr. John McCarthy, the Secretary General of the Department, and assistant secretaries Ms Mary Hurley and Mr. David...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Senator for his questions. The first issue he raised related to publication of data, verification and validation. I find it hugely frustrating when I see different numbers reported as fact in different places and I have tried to bring a greater coherency to the different types of numbers we produce and publish but the difficulty is there are different ways of counting. We can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: That is why it is a priority in my Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: That is why we highlighted the site in Project Ireland 2040 and we are moving forward on that. The capital appraisal for 540 units on the Shanganagh site has been received and the Department is working with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on the appraisal. The breakdown is 200 social housing units and 340 affordable housing units, which will cost between €140 million and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the questions and I will try to answer them as best I can. No decision has been made on the homeless reporting. To be frank, I have not yet received the reports. There are two to be received, with one from the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, DRHE, which I instigated in January, and one from the inter-agency group I set up in September after the first housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: One of my structured engagements was to meet another umbrella group of NGOs that represents every different group that helps people in emergency accommodation with the needs they have. We met as a group and there might have been 30 of us in the room. We spoke about the different problems being faced and potential solutions. It was a very good engagement but nobody has raised it with me...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the Deputy want to give me a list of questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I will give as much information as I can bearing in mind that I do not want to cause any unintentional confusion around this. When the categorisation was brought to my attention, we were under pressure to publish the March numbers and I did not want to fall away from the monthly reporting with which we had been proceeding. The decision I made was to put out the numbers and also to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I will come to that question right now because the Deputy asked me about the accuracy of data.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is right regarding the accuracy of data and that is why I did that because I want accurate numbers as well. Whenever we debate, we always debate numbers and data and that is the space I like to be in because it, rather than anecdotes, can help drive better policy. The number removed from the March numbers is 578 comprising 247 adults and 331 dependants. I think I might have...