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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (18 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I have not had correspondence from, or meetings with, estate agents representative bodies on the matter of persons queuing to purchase houses. However, the delivery of more affordable homes, to buy or rent, is a major priority for Government, focusing in particular on those people on low to moderate incomes. Recognising that housing affordability is a major issue...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (18 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible.  The qualifications outlined in the advertisement for the post concerned are the declared qualifications as agreed by my Department in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (18 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribe maximum net income limits for each local authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band were based on an assessment of the income needed to provide for a household's basic...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (18 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The development of the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) will, subject to a decision of An Bord Pleanála to approve the detailed planning scheme drawn up by the City Council and the subject of a current appeal, be subject to the provisions of Part V of the Planning Act which will deliver some 350 social housing units. Taking account of wider Government policy in the context of the...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The work we are doing currently on to rent sector and people who are renting is something I flagged last autumn in terms of a change management programme to make our rental market more mature. This is the first tranche of legislation but there is a second tranche to follow this year that will update on the first tranche of work. Similar legislation...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. We will see a dramatic increase in student accommodation completions in the next couple of years. About 9,000 new student beds will be created, which is-----

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: -----very welcome for the students who will be living in that accommodation. It is not necessarily the case that student accommodation does not come under the RPZ measures. However, meetings have been held between my Department, the Minister of State at the Department of Education with special responsibility for higher education, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, and the students concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1487 and 1488 together. The project in question has been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála and  environmental and other considerations would have been taken into account as part of the planning process. Local authorities have a general responsibility for the monitoring, management, protection and improvement of water...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Library Services Data (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1489 and 1490 together. My Department is responsible for 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1493 to 1495, inclusive, together. As with the previous local authority home loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan, which was introduced on 1 February 2018, is a local authority product and loan applications are made directly to the local authority in whose area the property proposed for purchase is situated. My Department does not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1496 and 1620 together. As the Deputy will be aware, residential construction on state lands over the period 2012-2017 has been primarily for social housing purposes. Through the supports made available from my Department, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects, through the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1498 to 1502, inclusive, together. Following engagement with the Land Use and Transport Committee of the County and City Management Association (CCMA) in relation to the discussion of individual planning applications at Municipal District and Area Committee meetings or at full Council meetings in some local authorities, my Department issued Circular...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) is governed by the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 – 2016.  Section 153 of the Act provides that the members of the Board shall be appointed from time to time as occasion requires by the Minister.  The Act requires that Board members shall be persons who, in the Minister’s opinion, have experience in a field of expertise relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1507, 1508, 1510 and 1514 together. I presume the phrase “early risk categorisation” refers to the “area risk categorisation” process provided for in the national policy document “Keeping Communities Safe - A Framework for Fire Safety in Ireland” (KCS). The provision of a fire service in its functional area is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties Data (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Central Statistics Office is the principal statutory compiler and publisher of official statistics in Ireland, and the 5-yearly Census is a detailed account which records and classifies, inter alia, all households and dwelling types throughout the country on a particular night. The vacancy figures recorded in the Census are the result of the application of consistent, transparent and well...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Consultancy Contracts Data (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested on expenditure and the number of consultants engaged by my Department is set out in the following table. The information relates to the current configuration of my Department and does not include any expenditure in respect of functions that have transferred to other Departments, i.e. Rural Affairs, Social Enterprise, Climate Action, Environment and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There is no provision in the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, prohibiting the making of a request to alter the terms of a planning permission, approval or other consent granted under the Act in respect of a strategic infrastructure development which is the subject of an enforcement notice served by a planning authority.  Neither is there a provision in the 2000 Act...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Sections 38, 141 and 146 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, require a planning authority and An Bord Pleanála, respectively, within 3 working days of making a decision on a planning application or appeal, to make the relevant documents (including any environmental impact statement or Natura impact statement) available for inspection and purchase...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I presume the Deputy is referring to the “area risk categorisation” process provided for in the national policy document “Keeping Communities Safe - A Framework for Fire Safety in Ireland” which was published by my Department in February 2013. For the first time, this document set out a national process and standards against which local authorities can benchmark...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Apr 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.  Increased delivery of homes at more affordable prices will involve local authorities developing their own residential land bank, comprising some 1,700 hectares, to its...