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

Eoghan Murphy: I do not have that figure. I am sorry.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I do not want to get back into the reporting method but this is not something I receive on a monthly basis. I would love to get much more information but that would require more intensive reporting. It may not be possible to do that so we have to look at the restraints we have in that area. When I receive these reports, I often ask detailed questions and the answers are not available...

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

Eoghan Murphy: When we talk about it, we talk about exits from homelessness rather than exits from emergency accommodation, and they are two different things. For someone to get, say, a preventive measure like homeless HAP they must first qualify as homeless. They get it and then they are not homeless. Does the Deputy know what I mean? It is a bureaucratic loop they have to jump through but it is an...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Once we discovered that-----

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

Eoghan Murphy: -----one local authority had made a miscategorisation, we then had to ask ourselves if any other local authorities had been doing that. We began contacting local authorities to tell them that we have discovered this in one local authority and to ask them if they were doing it.

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

Eoghan Murphy: They were not asked to recategorise anything.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I do not have the email in front of me-----

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

Eoghan Murphy: -----but from what I heard, it did not contradict what I had said. We were not directing anyone to do this. It was only if they agreed that they were not in emergency accommodation that there was a recategorisation. I think I have answered all the questions.

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

Eoghan Murphy: In terms of what I said last night-----

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 Deputies for their questions. Regarding LIHAF 1, the drawdown in 2017 was small because I only approved a number of the projects in the second half of last year but they were already moving to the design stage and so on so there will be a larger drawdown this year. In terms of LIHAF as a tool, it was not an affordability one but we are delivering affordability through it....

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

Eoghan Murphy: It was specified when I announced the affordable purchase scheme in January that I would have to sign a commencement order and move with regulations. Each local authority will decide for itself about the management of lists. On the current affordable purchase scheme and its delivery, this is through carve-outs on LIHAF sites, through the serviced sites fund and in the larger sites, such as...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The local authorities have been good at using social media, although some are better than others. We have also seen Deputies and Senators promoting the scheme and I have seen leaflets in local authority offices which ask if people have heard of the repair and lease scheme and if people have a property that they cannot afford to get tenanted. All those channels will be helpful. I will...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Yes, that is the final stage of the process which we have not yet reached since this has only been introduced. The Law Reform Commission is leading very good work on streamlining of the compulsory purchase order, CPO, process. Our CPO legislation is in so many different places and some of it predates the State. I have spoken with the Attorney General about flexing CPO legislation to...

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

Eoghan Murphy: It was a very noisy meeting, if I remember correctly. There was noise outside and I could not quite hear what was said.

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 Senators and Deputies for the questions. The repair and lease scheme is available in all local authorities. The criteria were reviewed, and the main changes were that it was reduced from ten years to five years at 92% of market rate because the owner is going to continue to be a landlord; and we increased the money available to those who had a number of properties so that it was...

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

Eoghan Murphy: We are looking at that issue at the moment. A number of meetings have taken place between myself and the Department of Education and Skills. We have also met the RTB. We will establish what the facts are around these arrangements and whether they are or are not covered by the rent pressure zone legislation. If they are not we will see what we can do to address it. We will see what 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: Is that a change in legislation that is coming?

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

Eoghan Murphy: That work is being done at the moment with the Department of Education and Skills. Although the Act is under my Department, the Department of Education and Skills has responsibility for student housing. A meeting at which we asked what the situation is and spoke to the RTB has already taken place. We are working on the matter. I am waiting for a report to come back and I will act on foot...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities now have substantial pipelines of approved new social housing construction projects, details can be seen in the quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Reports published by my Department. The most recently available report sets out the position as at end quarter 4 2017 and is available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link:. I am keen that local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer the Deputy to my reply to his Question No. 338 of 19 April 2018. The position is unchanged.