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

Eoghan Murphy: As reflected in the National Development Plan 2018 - 2017, a total of 112,000 social housing homes will be delivered over the next decade, through a range of mechanisms including build, long term leasing and acquisitions. In addition to the social housing homes already delivered under Rebuilding Ireland, 40,000 further social housing homes will be delivered between...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is currently progressing draft European Union (Licensing of Large-Scale Extraction of Peat) Regulations that will establish a revised regulatory regime in respect of large-scale peat extraction. Under the draft Regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency will be required to carry out an environmental impact assessment as part of its examination of applications for a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (22 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I assume that the Deputy is referring to group sewerage schemes. My Department's Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2016-2018 includes funding of group sewerage schemes, through Measure 4(d) where clustering of households on individual septic tanks is not a viable option, particularly from an environmental perspective. Local authorities were invited in January 2016 to submit bids under the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Budget 2018 provides for a national Exchequer allocation of €116 million for homeless services, which is an additional €18 million, or 18%, on the Budget 2017 provision. The purposes for which housing authorities may incur expenditure in addressing homelessness are prescribed in section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. My Department may recoup housing authorities up to 90% of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Broughan for his question. We are proceeding with the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill. The Deputy is aware that I received a report from the joint Oireachtas committee at the end of December which is currently being reviewed to see how we can accommodate some of its proposals into the legislation to come before the Dáil. As regards the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for his question. The repair and leasing scheme extends to all towns and villages but is demand-led such that if the local authority determines a demand for the repair and leasing scheme, it takes appropriate houses back into use for social housing needs. If Deputy Healy-Rae has specific examples, I can raise them with the local authority.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. The Rebuilding Ireland home loan is for first-time buyers but there is an exception for someone who is separated or divorced; if they have previously owned a property they will still be eligible to apply for the scheme. We are currently rolling out the first tranche of the scheme and we are reviewing it as we go to see what changes we might make...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: If the Deputy will give me the specific information, I will have it communicated to that person because if he is separated or divorced, he can apply for the loan.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (21 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Development contributions applied by local authorities are levied on the basis of a development contribution scheme adopted by the elected members which sets out how contributions are to be applied in respect of developments in their respective functional areas. The level of contribution and the types of development to which development contributions should apply, including any exemptions...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (21 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 213 and 216 together. The Water Services Act of 2007 sets down the obligations and responsibilities of water services authorities and property owners in respect of wastewater infrastructure. Section 70 places a general duty of care on the owner or occupier of a premises to ensure that wastewater from the premises does not cause nuisance or risk to human...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (21 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, prescribe maximum net income limits for eligibility for social housing support for each local authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy, published by my Department. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band are based on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (21 Feb 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 introduced on 1 February 2018.  Rather than applying a Loan to Income (LTI) limit to the new loan, a maximum permissible Net Disposable Income (NDI) ratio of 35% is used which more...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I said that it will be, following the legislation.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: -----or since the Minister, Deputy Coveney, came into the Department. When the planning legislation that is currently going through the Seanad is enacted, the national planning framework will then be on a statutory basis. It was always expected that the Government would consult on the draft document, would then make changes to the plan based on that consultation period that we had and would...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: At the outset, I thank my officials in the Department for the huge amount of work that they have done over the past number of years in preparing the national planning framework. They did that work over more than a three-year period and under Ministers who held this portfolio prior to me - the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, who worked at the time...

Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. I saw the figures from the same report that he has raised and it is very disturbing. We are moving to ban microbeads in the State and we would like to do this in conjunction with our EU partners because it is a Single Market issue. We trade across every market so we would like to see all products on our shelves with no microbeads in them. We...

Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: That is not the same topic.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The introduction of legislation or regulations of the kind referred to would be a matter for the Minister for Finance. Under the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness there is a scheme in place, administered by the Housing Agency, for the acquisition of dwellings being disposed of by banks and private equity funds. An acquisitions...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Question No. 342 on 1 February 2018 which sets out the position in this matter.  The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Remuneration (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, it is the Chief Executive of each local authority who is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the Council. In this regard, it is a matter for the Chief Executive of Dublin City Council to ensure that the correct procedures are applied to starting pay on recruitment...