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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Communications (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Question No. 609 of 20 February 2018 which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities have a general responsibility for the monitoring, management and improvement of water quality. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the statutory body for investigating complaints of pollution and for the enforcement, both directly and through oversight of local authorities, of environmental legislation in Ireland. The design and installation of wastewater treatment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In June 2016 the Oireachtas voted to suspend domestic water charges. An Expert Commission was established to report on the funding of domestic public water services in Ireland and to provide recommendations on a sustainable long-term funding model for domestic water and wastewater services. This Expert Commission reported in November 2016. A special Oireachtas committee then examined these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On 30 May 2017, the Government designated 284 hectares lands at Ireland West Airport Knock (IWAK) as a Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) under Section 166 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). As outlined in the SDZ Designation Order, the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Designation of Strategic Development Zone: Ireland West Airport Knock) Order 2017, developments within...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service Staff (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of local government sector employment levels. To this end, my Department gathers quarterly data on staff numbers in local authorities; however, the data gathered does not provide details in terms of the number of retained fire personnel that are due to retire in 2018. Accordingly, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Planning Framework (NPF), published by Government in February 2018 under Project Ireland 2040, provides for a Housing Need Demand Assessment (HNDA) to be developed by each local authority, in a co-ordinated fashion, to support the preparation of wider statutory housing and core strategies as part of the relevant local authority development plans. The HDNA approach is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regional Assemblies (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is responsible for workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of regional assemblies employment levels. To this end, my Department gathers quarterly data on staff numbers in regional assemblies; however, the data gathered does not provide details in terms of the number of support staff directly employed or seconded to each assembly....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The delivery of more affordable homes, to buy or rent, is a major priority for Government, focusing in particular on the cities of Dublin, Galway and Cork, where people are facing the greatest affordability challenge. Recognising that people want a choice of affordable purchase and rental, depending on their stage of life and circumstances, we are progressing both. On 22 January, I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As Minister, I am primarily responsible for the formulation and implementation of policy and for the preparation of legislation in relation to housing nationally. The day-to-day operation of the social housing system is a matter for the relevant local authority. The allocation of social housing support is a matter for the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Voids Programme, introduced in 2014 by my Department, provides additional support to local authorities in preparing vacant units for re-letting. The purpose of the Voids Programme is to ensure that vacant units are actively targeted, with a view to minimising the turnaround and re-let time of these units and return them to use in an energy efficient condition. During 2017, my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Details in relation to the exits by individuals and households from homeless emergency accommodation to independent living in 2017 are set out in the following table. Individuals Households Local Authority Lettings 1,063 802 AHB Lettings 856 715 Long Term Supported Accommodation 82 80 Private Rented 731 645 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) 1,997 1,741 Totals 4,729 3,983 Information...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Homes sold to first-time buyers under previous affordable housing schemes, at a significant discount from market value, contained a clawback provision, in order to prevent short-term profit-taking on the resale of the discounted house, to the detriment of the schemes' objectives. Under the clawback provisions, as set out in the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Data (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 460 to 463, inclusive, together. My Department does not hold or collate the data referred to by the Deputy in relation to private rental properties. The Clerk of the Dáil requested that arrangements be put in place to facilitate the provision of information by State Bodies to members of the Oireachtas. Following the issue of Circular LG (P)05/16 on 20...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (1 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 known as the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was introduced, with effect from 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 465 to 467, inclusive, together. Detailed data in relation to social housing delivery by each local authority, for the years 2015 to 2017, is available on my Department's website at the following link: . In 2018, more than 25,000 additional households will have their housing need met, including through the Housing Assistance Payment Scheme and the Rental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or the associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Any development that is carried out without planning permission or that does not comply with the terms of a planning permission is unauthorised development and may be subject to enforcement action by a planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Having compiled the data requested, I replied to the Deputy's Parliamentary Question of 8 March 2018 in accordance with standard procedures on 29 March 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Action 18 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector, my Department established a Working Group, involving representatives of all major public stakeholders with a policy interest in short-term lettings, to develop guidance in relation to planning applications, changes of use relating to short-term lettings and to examine the need for new regulatory arrangements. The proposals under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Abstraction Regulation (1 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Water Framework Directive requires that abstractions of surface water or ground water which are likely to have a significant effect on water status must be regulated. In December 2017, the Government approved the commencement of work on a General Scheme of a Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill which will govern the abstraction of water in a proportionate and efficient way. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (26 Apr 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 our Nitrates Action Programme (NAP). The Regulations focus, inter alia, on the management of livestock manures and other fertilisers.   In accordance with the requirements of these regulations, half of all slurry produced...