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

Eoghan Murphy: The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 provides for new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments (SHD) to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála (the Board) for determination.  The Planning and Development (Strategic Housing Development) Regulations 2017 supplement the provisions in the 2016 Act...

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

Eoghan Murphy: While my Department does not routinely collect data of this nature, in the past ten years, there were two sections of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 which implemented Law Reform Commission recommendations and are detailed in the table below: Year Title of Act Section of Act Law Reform Commission Recommendation 2010 Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The first call for proposals under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) was issued to all local authorities in August 2016 and 34 projects received preliminary approval in March 2017. Louth County Council submitted three projects for consideration under LIHAF. Funding was approved for an access road at Newtown Road, Drogheda in the amount of €1.22 million and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1530 and 1621 together. 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...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Limerick City and County Council provide a highly effective transactional shared service in respect of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme, on behalf of all local authorities. This HAP Shared Services Centre (SSC) manages all HAP related rental transactions for the tenant, local authority and landlord. Once a HAP application has been received and confirmed as valid by the relevant...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. The circumstances described arose in the context of Irish Water's fulfillment of its operational activities and I have no function in the matter. Irish Water has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Section 12 of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides for the transfer, by Ministerial Order, of the property of a water services authority (a city council, county council or city and county council) to Irish Water. The process requires that any land transferred to Irish Water must be clearly and unambiguously identified. Accordingly, land (including water services assets) is...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 provides for new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments, of 100 housing units or more or student accommodation developments of 200 bed spaces or more, to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála (the Board) for determination. From the time that the new...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1536 and 1605 together. As with the previous local authority loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is available to first-time buyers only. There is no change to this regard. This is to ensure the effective targeting of limited resources. Applicants who are separated or divorced may be treated as first-time buyers if...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Notification of the 2018 funding allocations to individual local authorities, including Galway County Council and Galway City Council, will issue shortly in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. Ahead of the notification of these allocations, work in respect of these programmes can continue. All local authorities may commit up to 65%...

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

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitment given in Rebuilding Ireland, a review of the first 12 months of the Tenant Purchase Scheme’s operation has been undertaken. The review has incorporated analysis of comprehensive data received from local authorities regarding the operation of the scheme during 2016 and a wide-ranging public consultation process which took place in 2017 and saw...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are by law (Section 63(1) of the Local Government Act 2001) independent in the performance of their functions. The operation of the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme 2016 is a matter for individual local authorities, in line with relevant legislation, including the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015. The data requested by the Deputy is not yet...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Water Services (Amendment) Act, 2012 each water services authority is required to establish and maintain a register of domestic waste water treatment systems situated within its functional area. The most recent Census, published in 2016 by the Central Statistics Office, indicated that there were 438,319 septic tanks and 50,750 individual treatment systems in Ireland. A total of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Section 70 of the Water Services Act 2007 places a duty of care on the owner of a premises to ensure that their waste water treatment systems are kept so as not to cause, or be likely to cause, a risk to human health or the environment, including risk to water, the atmosphere, land, soil, plants or animals, or create a nuisance through odours. The duty of care provisions have been augmented...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment Facilities Inspections (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012 assigns responsibility to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make a National Inspection Plan (NIP) for domestic wastewater treatment systems and neither I, nor my Department, has any direct role in monitoring the implementation of the plan by the local authorities. The EPA was the supervisory body for the purposes of the National Inspection...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1547 to 1549, inclusive, together. The Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas library, brought into operation a grant scheme to assist with the cost of remediation of septic tanks and domestic waste water treatment systems which are deemed, following inspection under the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has been the statutory authority responsible for the delivery of public water services, which includes responsibility for the provision of water services infrastructure at national, regional and local levels. Conservation of water supplies is a key policy imperative as the treatment and distribution of drinking water is expensive and the supply of treated...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Apr 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 from 1 February 2018. The new loan will enable credit worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties. The low rate of fixed interest...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has been responsible for delivering public water services, which includes responsibility for maintaining water supply pipes extending from a waterworks or wastewater works to the curtilage of a private property. Under sections 43 and 54 of the Water Services Act 2007, responsibility for maintenance and replacement of any pipes, connections or...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department engages with An Bord Pleanála (the Board) on an ongoing basis to ensure that it has the appropriate resources to perform its broad range of functions. Section 116 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides for the payment to the Board in each financial year of a grant of such amount as the Minister may fix, with the consent of the...