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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Agency provides a central support service which assesses applications for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. I have asked the Agency to compile figures on the numbers of applications that it has assessed and recommended to approve since the beginning of 2020. So far this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Increased rent limits for Rent Supplement and the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme were introduced in 2016. The HAP limits were agreed in conjunction with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP).  In reviewing rent limits, my Department worked closely with the DEASP and monitored data gathered from the Residential Tenancies Board and the HAP...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals.  At the end of Q4 2019, over 71,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 52,500 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 30,000 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Information on 'New Dwelling Completions' in each local authority area, is published by the Central Statistics Office and is available at the following link: . In relation to new social housing, the output of each local authority, including Roscommon and Galway County, are available on my Department's website at the following link: . The most recent quarterly report sets out the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service Staff (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Public sector travel expenses policy is overseen by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The travel expenses regime in the local authority sector is governed by Circular letters issued by my Department based on the guidance from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. These circulars are applicable to all local authority employees including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has been engaged in a process of revision of the social housing application form in collaboration with the local authority sector. The application form, as currently prescribed in regulations, already allows applicants to identify that they have particular housing requirement arising from a disability. As part of the work on the application form, my Department was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies Property (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested is not available in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Capital Advance Loan Facility (CALF funding is capital support provided to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) by local authorities to facilitate the funding of construction, acquisition or refurbishment of new social housing units.  This loan facility can support up to 30% of the eligible capital cost of the housing project, with the housing units provided to local authorities for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Inspections (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Between 2005 and 2018, over €39 million was paid to local authorities to assist them in the performance of their functions under the Housing Acts, including the inspection of rented accommodation. Over 258,000 inspections were carried out during this period. The Rental Strategy recognises the need for additional resources to be provided to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The broad policy context for the development of water services is set out in the Water Services Policy Statement 2018-2025, as published in May 2018 following the approval of Government. This includes the ongoing transformation process to position Irish Water as the single, publicly owned national water services authority, accountable to the Oireachtas.  Related to this process, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I received the report, entitled 'A Review Into Certain Planning Matters in Respect of Donegal County Council', by Mr. Rory Mulcahy S.C., on 11 June 2017. Following initial analysis and assessment of the report's findings and recommendations, including interaction with my Department's own legal advisors and the Attorney General's Office, a comprehensive set of queries and a request for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Pillar 5 of Rebuilding Ireland, which aims to ensure that existing housing stock is used to the maximum degree possible, the Vacant Homes Unit was established in 2017 within my Department with the primary aim of driving and coordinating actions at central and local government levels and to support local authorities in identifying vacant properties. Since 2018, my Department has secured...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Housing First enables homeless individuals with high levels of complex needs to obtain permanent secure accommodation with the provision of intensive housing and health supports to help them maintain their tenancies. The National Implementation Plan for Housing First was published in September 2018. The Plan includes an overall target of 663 tenancies in the period 2018-2021, with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Court of Justice Rulings (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Following a judgment in March 2019 by the Court of Justice of the European Union on Ireland's non-compliance with the urban wastewater treatment directive, my Department, accompanied by Irish Water, met with European Commission officials in June last year and proposed a programme of measures to ensure that the findings in the judgment were addressed.  My Department will maintain close...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2019, with one of its key functions being to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. Due to the quasi-judicial and independent role of the RTB, it would be inappropriate for me, as Minister, to intervene in specific disputes. Security of tenure for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Programmes (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In July 2019 my Department launched the multi-annual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme 2019-2021.  Bids were sought from local authorities around the country for funding under the programme. The closing date for bids was 18 September 2019.  A total number of 19 local authorities with Developer Provided Infrastructure in estates in their areas...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL) launched on 1 February 2018. When the RIHL was initially being developed, it was estimated that the drawdown of loans under the scheme would be approximately €200 million over three years. The RIHL proved to be more successful than initially anticipated and following discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Targets for the delivery of new social housing were issued to all local authorities and the funding to support this delivery is being provided to them under Rebuilding Ireland. The targets out to 2021 are publicly available on a local authority basis at the following link: . In delivering against these targets, local authorities are bringing forward new proposals to my Department on a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (18 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Over the course of the 6-year Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan, the Government is committed to meeting the housing needs of over 138,000 households. This will be achieved through blended delivery, involving increasing the social housing stock by 50,000 homes, through build, acquisition and leasing programmes, and supporting some 88,000 further households through the Housing Assistance Payment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The recent High Court judgment set aside the European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Peat Extraction) Regulations 2019 made by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the supplementary Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) Regulations 2019 made by me. These Regulations, in combination, introduced a streamlined system for the...