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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding to local authorities to acquire a range of properties for social housing use. Identifying and undertaking such social housing acquisitions is largely delegated to local authorities, so that they may respond flexibly to all opportunities to provide new social housing.  Such funding is also provided on the basis that the houses are suitable for...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I am conscious of the social benefit accruing from the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, particularly in terms of facilitating the continued independent living by older people and people with a disability in their own homes.  This is recognised in the Programme for Government and as a consequence, funding for these schemes has been increasing...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Government has set out an ambitious set of targets for the delivery of social housing to the period to 2021 in its multi-faceted plan Rebuilding Ireland. A commitment to deliver 50,000 new social housing units through a range of delivery mechanisms has been supported by a multi-annual Exchequer commitment totalling €6.5 billion over the period. These targets will be achieved using...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Review (8 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2017, as amended, give legal effect in Ireland to the Nitrates Directive and to Ireland's fourth Nitrates Action Programme (NAP) for 2018 -2021 which was agreed with the European Commission in December 2017 after extensive negotiation. Ireland's NAP contains enhanced measures for...

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

Eoghan Murphy: On 17 April 2018, I launched the River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2018-2021, which is available on my Department's website at the following link: . In accordance with the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy), this Plan sets out a comprehensive programme of measures to enhance the quality of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Mattie McGrath for his question. The Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme which I announced earlier this year has proved to be very popular.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There has been great interest across the country in the loan scheme and there have been a number of successful applicants to date this year. However, we have to be very careful. We must make prudent decisions in the context of mortgage lending at local authority level. A meeting was held last week between officials from my Department, the Housing Agency and the Housing Finance Agency to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The loan is at a fixed rate over 30 years and a very important product for those who want to buy their own homes.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This is a bizarre intervention by Sinn Féin. The mask might be slipping in that it is now trying to politicise the homelessness crisis.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: So desperate is it to see the numbers go up that it thinks we should be counting people who are not living in emergency accommodation as homeless.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

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Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: They are not.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No, they are not living in hotels, bed and breakfast accommodation, hubs or hostels.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: They never went into homelessness.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This is deliberation manipulation by Sinn Féin-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No, it is Sinn Féin that is doing a disservice to homeless persons-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is Sinn Féin that is doing a disservice. We have to focus on the people living in emergency accommodation who need our help, people who are sleeping rough on the streets-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No, they are not. In some instances, they are living in private rented accommodation. They never went into homelessness.