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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Based on enquiries made by my Department, I understand that a response to the queries raised by the Deputy was issued by Irish Water on 23 February 2018. My Department has been advised that Irish Water has apologised for any delay in the response. My Department is in contact with Irish Water to reiterate the importance of the effective operation of the mechanisms in place to deal with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 757, 758, 761, 762 and 767 together. The Government has made housing a top priority and, through the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan, has a framework in place to deliver an increase and acceleration in the supply of high quality housing, including social and affordable homes, particularly in the major urban areas where demand is greatest. In order to directly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 759 and 765 together. Project Ireland 2040, within which the National Planning Framework (NPF) sits, will ensure that we maintain the fabric of our rural communities, support the growth of rural towns while recognising the need for the open countryside to continue to be a living and lived-in landscape, and invest to support job creation. The NPF is a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 760, 774 and 775 together. My Department publishes reports on a monthly basis regarding the number of individuals utilising emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. These reports include a county breakdown of the homeless adult population. These official homeless reports are published on my Department's website and can...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In terms of meeting the need of households on waiting lists across the country, Rebuilding Ireland set ambitious targets for social housing delivery and there is an accelerated delivery programme in place for 2018 and the years beyond. Last year, I secured an additional €500 million during Budget 2018 negotiations, to increase the social housing delivery ambition from 47,000 to 50,000...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 764 and 771 together. Following a review of the two existing local authority home loan schemes, the House Purchase Loan and the Home Choice Loan, I have introduced, from 1 February 2018, a new loan offering, known as the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan. The new loan will enable credit worthy first time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is a matter for each local authority to determine the nature, location and relative priority of individual social housing projects for their areas. In submitting proposals for funding to my Department in respect of new social housing projects, local authorities may include proposals for single social houses in rural areas where they have identified and prioritised such need and the issue...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 768 and 769 together. The delivery of social housing in each local authority area is a matter in the first instance for the local authorities themselves. However, I would encourage all local authorities, including those in Kildare, Wicklow and Meath, to use all available approaches to expedite delivery of new social homes. This can include local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each housing authority area are provided in the statutory summary of social housing assessments, SSHA. The most recent SSHA carried out in 2017, details the number of households on all local authority waiting lists as at 28 June 2017. The results of the SSHA are available on my Department’s website and include...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The housing assistance payment, HAP, provides fast, flexible housing support to households in an area of their choice. Individuals with a housing need who in the past were reluctant to avail of full time work as they would lose their rent supplement support, can now move to HAP, avail of full-time work and retain their housing support, with an adjustment in their differential rent. HAP is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The implementation of the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan is well underway and making significant progress. This was evident in the Social Housing Output indicative figures published last month, showing that nearly 26,000 households had their social housing need met in 2017; this was building on the equivalent figure of 19,000 in 2016. The results of the statutory summary of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and associated services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Minimum standards for rental accommodation are prescribed in the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017, made under section 18 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992. All landlords, including those in receipt of Housing Assistance Payment, HAP, have a legal obligation to ensure that their rented properties comply with these regulations and responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The appointment of a receiver to a dwelling can cause confusion and distress to tenants and, in circumstances where a receiver is appointed to a rented dwelling, it is essential that the rights of tenants are protected. Under Action 5 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector, my Department has established a working group with the participation of the Departments of Justice & Equality;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My focus, and that of the Government, is to ensure that as many households as possible remain in their homes and in this regard, a range of measures are currently being implemented across Government Departments and agencies. These actions are focused on encouraging those in mortgage distress who have not been able to engage, to reach a long term debt resolution and avoid repossession if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (22 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I can confirm that the deposit requirements underpinning the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan are the same for all applicants. Specifically, where a loan applicant owns a site with full planning permission, the maximum loan amount that can be advanced is 90% of the build cost. This is also subject to the post construction market value of the completed house not exceeding the maximum allowable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Programme for Government (22 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: A motion to refer the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, which dealt with economic, social and cultural rights including the right to housing, to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach was passed by the Dáil on 28 September 2017 and by the Seanad on 11 October 2017. As the Deputy will be aware, at the time that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (22 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In late 2017, my Department conducted a review of group water scheme subsidies. The review involved discussions with the National Federation of Group Water Schemes, the representative body of the group water sector. Discussions concluded in December, when I approved revised subsidy levels. The new subsidy arrangements, endorsed by a special delegate conference of the Federation on 13...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (22 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016.  The Scheme is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme. To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable income of €15,000 per annum and having been in receipt of social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (22 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The strategic infrastructure development (SID) provisions in the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), and the Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2017 (the Regulations), whereby planning applications are made directly to An Bord Pleanála (the Board), provide for the necessary public notification, site notice and public consultation arrangements in respect of...