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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As with the previous local authority home loan offerings, loan applications under the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan are made directly to the local authority in whose area the property proposed for purchase is situated. My Department therefore does not directly collect information on the number of enquiries to local authorities regarding the loan or the number of loan applications received by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 introduced a new measure, the vacant site levy, which is aimed at incentivising the development of vacant, under-utilised sites in urban areas, for residential or regeneration purposes. Under the Act, planning authorities are required to establish a register of vacant sites in their areas, beginning on 1 January 2017. Planning authorities will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 462 and 494 together. The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016. The Scheme is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme. To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable income of €15,000 per...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability assists people with a disability in private houses to have necessary adaptations, repairs or improvement works carried out in order to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs. While my Department provides funding to local authorities for the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The site at Oscar Traynor Road 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 City Council functional area. All three sites under the HLI are identified as Strategic Development and Regeneration Areas (SDRA) within the Dublin City...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am proposing to introduce the necessary legislative steps in the coming weeks to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, in order to classify data centres above a certain size threshold as strategic infrastructure developments.  This change will mean that applications for planning permission for data centres that meet the scale requirements...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 467, 468 and 473 together. The new Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme is designed to enable credit worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties. The low rate of fixed interest associated with the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan provides first-time buyers with access to mortgage finance that they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Questions Numbers 24 and 25 on today's Order Paper which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The purpose of the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is to relieve critical infrastructural blockages for key sites to activate housing delivery. Funding awarded under LIHAF is done on a matched funding basis, where a grant is given for 75% of the costs of the infrastructure and the local authority match funds that grant for the remaining 25%. In October 2016, Kildare...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. My Department does not fund any service directly but provides funding to housing authorities on a regional basis as a contribution towards costs incurred. The purposes for which housing authorities may incur expenditure in addressing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 475 and 476 together. Details of the number of houses that have been built and acquired by local authorities, including in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in each of the years 2013 to 2017 are published and available on my Department's website at the following link: Details relating to delivery in 2018 will be published on a quarterly basis as soon as they are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Mortgage to Rent (MTR) scheme introduced in 2012, where an Approved Housing Body (AHB) indicates an interest in acquiring a property, the AHB will make an offer to purchase the property based on the market value determined by an independent valuation less any known essential repairs that were not taken account of in the valuation process.  This means that while the market value...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 478, 480, 481 and 485 together. My Department publishes a range of datasets relating to housing market activity on the statistics section of its website.  Details of commencement notices received by each of the 31 local authorities are published as a monthly series, which can be accessed through the following weblink:  . The latest...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Data in relation to social housing delivery by local authorities is available on my Department's website. While data for 2018 to date is not yet available, detailed data in relation to 2017 is available at the following link: . In 2017, over 7,000 additional units were brought into the active social housing stock under Build, Acquisition and Leasing Programmes. This...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Kildare County Council, along with all other local authorities, is being funded to increase significantly its delivery of social housing as part of Rebuilding Ireland. Details on the number of social houses constructed, purchased, leased or supported through the Housing Assistance Payment or Rental Accommodation Scheme by all local authorities over the past 3 years, including Kildare County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Planning Framework (NPF), published together with the National Development Plan (NDP) as part of Project Ireland 2040 in February 2018, sets out an ambitious high-level national vision for Ireland for 2040, and provides the framework and principles to manage future population and economic growth over the next 20 years, catering for around 1 million extra people, 660,000...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes a range of datasets relating to housing market activity on the statistics area of its website.  Details of commencement notices received by each of the 31 local authorities are published as a monthly series which can be accessed through the following weblink: . The latest Monthly Housing Activity Report (March 2018), which is available on , is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Following a review of the two existing local authority home loan schemes, the House Purchase Loan and the Home Choice Loan, a new loan offering, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan, was made available on 1 February 2018. The new loan enables credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range. The low rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Construction Status Report covering the period up to Quarter 4 of 2017 was published on 19 April 2018 and is available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link .  It provides project and stage details of the social housing construction pipeline in place at end of 2017 for all local authorities, including those construction projects being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 44 and 53 on today's Order Paper, which broadly sets out the position in relation to this matter. In addition, while the delivery of social and affordable homes will, of course, rely significantly on the State developing the full potential of its existing residential land bank, I am cognisant of the fact that some local...