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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Bring it on.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Ó Broin has accepted it was a miscategorisation.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy has accepted it was a miscategorisation and he is on the record-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is on the record accepting it was a miscategorisation. Yes or no?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: He is.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Bring it on.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Which document?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We are still waiting for the Deputy's great big housing policy announcement, although I have heard on enough occasions that it is coming. When we were in opposition, we published serious and detailed policy papers on a range of issues, properly costed and with draft legislation to back it up. Deputy Darragh O'Brien has produced nothing. Instead, he has put a marker in the sand, one that...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It would be a first.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"notes that: — the economic downturn had a very significant impact on housing supply and the construction industry, with housing construction falling by over 90% between the peak in 2006 and the trough in 2013; — with the economy returning to significant and consistent...

Residential Tenancies (Rent Pressure Zones and Student Accommodation) (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The failure here was not a failure of the planning process. I recognise that improvements have to be made. That is why the planning Bill that is currently going through the Houses categorises things like data centres as part of our strategic infrastructure and allows them to go directly to An Bord Pleanála. We have seen from Mr. Justice Peter Kelly, who is the president of the High...

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A number of claims are circulating about people being put on or taken off the register and about polling cards being delivered with certain types of literature but not all of them are true. We have to be careful about fake news being spread around this on social media-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: -----and traditional media but we are looking at the matter at the moment.

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Daft.ieis a great platform which I use myself but it has a direct interest in the property sector so we should not elevate its reporting to the same level of what a Government or State agency report might say. We look to the Residential Tenancies Board for reports on what is happening in the rental sector. Daft.ieis only one of many platforms with properties to rent so it does not show the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas library, brought into operation a grant scheme to assist with the cost of remediation of septic tanks and domestic waste water treatment systems which are deemed, following inspection under the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Inspection Plan, to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not hold any data on RAS properties that have been vacant for more than one month, as recoupment payments to local authorities only cease after a property has been unoccupied for 3 months. I refer to the reply to Question No. 240 of 26 April 2018, wherein I provided details of the number of RAS properties, broken down by local authority area,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 222 and 226 together. The information sought in relation to average costs, to the extent and in the format to which it is readily available, is set out in the table.  The average costs set out are based on the analysis of returned data from tendered social housing schemes over an extended period. Construction cost figures are reflective of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (16 May 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.  The...