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Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is absolutely right to highlight this as an issue. When we look at local authorities, of course we give them autonomy in respect of how they manage their resources. Some try to manage those resources between going for bigger schemes and bigger sites versus the resources that might have to be put into individual units or homes. Each local authority needs to strike that balance to...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Increases of between 300% and 400% on the basis of revaluation sound very strange to me because-----

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: -----in my own local authority area 40% was a maximum and that was an outlier, with most people seeing rises or reductions of 10% or less. There is nothing I can do about it as the process is independent of me. Nevertheless, I would be interested to see how it is working out for businesses in those particular circumstances. In the rates Bill, which is separate from this issue, we want...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities have been notified of their targets for social housing delivery via construction, acquisition and leasing which, in the case of Limerick City and County Council, is 1,365 units for the period 2018-2021. The targets are based on the summary of social housing assessments of 2017. Limerick City and County Council has an ambitious pipeline of new social housing...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I have had the opportunity, on a number of occasions, to be in Limerick to look at regeneration schemes and new-build schemes and I was there at the weekend, albeit in a personal capacity. What is happening in the local authority at the moment is quite exciting. The Minister of State, Deputy English, has met the housing delivery team as part of the new delivery unit in the Department which...

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I have been invited to meet the regeneration team with the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, next week and I look forward to that. Dublin City Council has been supporting the establishment of the Kilmainham-Inchicore network as the primary vehicle for the interface with the local community on this. If a group has a new proposal that might work, I will, of course, be happy to engage...

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputies. The public private partnership model is not always the best model to use on a particular site. Deputy Ó Broin's colleague is chair of the housing committee on Dublin City Council. I have met with him and I can meet with him again to discuss some potential ideas for this site if it is not proceeding under the public private partnership model. I have had...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates in respect of any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015. The Commissioner of Valuation has responsibility for valuation matters, including the revaluation of properties, and...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy. On the valuation process, as this happened in my local authority area, I know there are, generally speaking, more winners than losers when this occurs in terms of people seeing their rateable valuation decrease rather than increase. It is roughly a 65-35 split, so some 65% will find themselves paying less as a result. In some local authority areas, as the Deputy knows,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is absolutely correct. The call to acquire fewer homes by local authorities was my call because I did not want them competing with young families in the market in high-demand areas. Where it still makes financial sense to do it and it is not a high-demand area, local authorities can still make acquisitions and that is why this year, in the region of 900 more homes will be...

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 28 and 37 together. I thank the Deputy for the question. 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...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputies for their follow-up questions. The tenants in Tallaght Cross are not at risk of being de-tenanted. Deputy Ó Broin is using the terms "temporary" and "precarious" but the tenants have been in those tenancies for a very long period and are at no risk of entering emergency accommodation. No decision has been made about people in Tallaght Cross. This is something we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Why is Deputy Ó Broin so desperate to see the figures go up? If we go by Deputy Casey's definition, anyone in the private rental sector for two years might be included and counted as homeless. That does not make sense to me. We must be honest about the numbers. I was upfront about this when I discovered it. I have mentioned it previously. We are still working through this. We do...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I note the reference in the Deputy's question to "real social housing" units after which he then proceeded to outline an entirely unreal comparative analysis. Therefore, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I am happy to outline the actual comparison between social housing delivery in 2017 and the corresponding targets for 2018. In 2018, local authorities will deliver 2,319...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not know why Deputy Ó Broin wishes to misrepresent the progress that is being made when it comes to building social housing homes. He is not comparing like with like. He includes things such as voids when he wants to and then excludes them when he wants. This gives a very unfair impression of what is actually happening. Of course, we are building more units this year. We spent...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: That is correct. I propose to take Questions Nos. 24 and 25 together. I thank the Deputies for their questions. My Department currently publishes data on a monthly basis on the number of homeless persons accommodated in emergency accommodation funded and overseen by housing authorities. These reports are based on data provided by housing authorities, produced through the Pathway...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputies for their questions. What we are seeing, as this is emerging, is a mixed practice in each local authority as to both what they are counting but also some of the provisions they are putting in place to prevent people from going into emergency accommodation. At the Second Housing Summit at the beginning of year I told the local authorities to be creative in preventing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The purpose of the local infrastructure housing activation fund is to relieve key infrastructural blockages for the delivery of housing at scale. I have approved 30 infrastructure projects under the fund at a cost of around €195 million, with an associated housing delivery of 20,000 units by 2021, and more will follow as the sites are fully...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is important that we do not mislead the public on LIHAF. The objective of LIHAF was to unblock key pieces of land for housing delivery. The majority of the projects, if not all, were approved only in quarters 3 and 4 of last year. The intention is for the infrastructure to be delivered between now and 2019 and for 20,000 houses to be delivered between now and 2021. At certain sites,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On the Deputy's last question, it will depend on the scheme itself. In certain instances, based on the figures I gave the Deputy, there will be a cost reduction pertaining to homes across the site. A certain percentage will be taken off the proposed selling price or the proposed rental price. With regard to the affordable purchase scheme, again it will depend on the cost of delivering a...