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

Eoghan Murphy: The new Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is designed to enable credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range. The scheme is targeted at first-time buyers who have access to an adequate deposit and have the capacity to repay a mortgage, but who are unable to access a mortgage sufficient for them to...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is targeted at first-time buyers who wish to own their own home, have access to an adequate deposit and have the capacity to repay a mortgage, but who are unable to access a mortgage sufficient for them to purchase their first home. As with the previous local authority loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is available to first-time...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to my reply to Question No. 629 of 27 March 2018 in this matter.  The position is unchanged.

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

Eoghan Murphy: Detailed data in relation to local authority construction for the years 2012 to 2016 is available on my Department's website at the following link: . In January 2017, I published details of the 2017 provisional social housing outputs, including details as to the number of social housing homes constructed in 2017. During last year, just under 26,000 households had...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (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...

Affordable Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Our Whips are doing a great job.

Affordable Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I can commence. I do not want to delay matters unnecessarily.

Affordable Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: If it is appropriate, I congratulate Deputy Barry Cowen on his elevation within his party and thank him for the courtesy he has shown me while working together over the past ten months. At the outset, I wish to address the February homeless figures that I published yesterday. This latest report repeats what we saw in January and would seem to indicate a worrying trend since the beginning...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: First Stage (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputies for raising those particular issues. One of the measures we introduced in the fourth quarter of last year was an obligation for landlords to notify the Residential Tenancies Board when they serve a notice to quit on at-risk tenants so that the local authority can then get involved with those tenants to put in place early solutions to prevent those individuals or...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: If one looks at the numbers for January and February, almost 300 families were prevented from entering or exited out of emergency accommodation, in roughly a 50:50 split. Therefore, work is being done. Early intervention works where tenants are at risk of falling into emergency accommodation and we will continue to progress that. We are not relying on the private sector to build social...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On the private side though, it is important to note that planning permission was given last year for 20,000 new homes to be built in the State, a 27% increase on the previous year. We do have an affordable housing scheme. Local authorities have identified land and finance for 4,000 affordable homes under the affordable purchase scheme. Our ambition is for 10,000 homes. We are not...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: -----and as those areas meet the criteria, they then come in to the rent pressure zones.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The initial response to the use of hotel accommodation was to move to rapid build as a solution for new social housing homes. As the technology has advanced, however, it is now the default position in the private sector to use rapid build. As such, we are telling the local authorities that rapid build should be the default position for every new scheme...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We do not have the fourth quarter construction report for last year yet. It will be published in the next two weeks. We will have more detail on that. Rapid is at the centre of what we are doing for the more than 30,000 units to be built by local authorities and housing bodies.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. Thousands of new student places are being built at the moment. We have a very ambitious plan for that which will help students into affordable accommodation. On the particular issue the Deputy raises, if it is a case of traditional tenancy arrangements, it should be captured by the rent pressure zone and that kind of inflation should not be allowed....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Planning Framework(NPF), published together with the National Development Plan(NDP) as part of Project Ireland 2040on 16 February 2018, sets out an ambitious high-level national vision for Ireland for 2040, and provides the framework and principles to manage future population and economic growth over the next 20 years, catering for around 1 million extra people, 660,000 extra...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Dedicated funding for Housing Inclusion Support programmes is provided within my Department’s Housing Vote on an annual basis. This funding is provided to local authorities for the provision of programmes to support the delivery of Traveller specific accommodation and related services, the provision of homeless services and also supports to meet the housing needs of people with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (29 Mar 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 on 1 February 2018. As with the previous local authority home loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is a local authority product and loan applications are made directly to the local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As the Deputy is aware, 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 on 1 February 2018. The new loan is designed to enable credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties...