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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals.  At the end of Q3 2019, nearly 67,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 50,000 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 29,000 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 736 and 770 together. My Department publishes a monthly report on homelessness. The monthly report is based on data provided by housing authorities on a regional basis and produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System.  The report captures details of individuals utilising State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 737 and 738 together. Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals.  At the end of Q3 2019, nearly 67,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 50,000 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 29,000 separate landlords and agents...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Planning and Development and Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2016 introduced the  Rent Predictability Measure to moderate rent increases in those parts of the country where rents are highest and rising, resulting in great difficulty for households finding affordable accommodation. In these areas, called Rent Pressure Zones (RPZ), rents can only increase by a maximum of 4%...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 740 and 741 together. On 8 February 2019, I announced details of the eight measures being funded through my Department under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021 (MARWP). Local authorities were subsequently invited to submit their bids for the funding of schemes or projects under Measures 1 through 7, in their functional...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: On 8 February this year, I announced details of the measures being funded through my Department under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021. In parallel to the announcement local authorities were invited to submit their bids for the funding schemes or projects in their functional areas, with the deadline for receipt of proposals set as 14 March 2019. The new multi-annual...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 743 and 744 together. On 8 February this year, I announced details of the measures being funded through my Department under the Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021. Local authorities were invited to submit their bids for the funding of schemes or projects in their functional areas. Mayo County Council made a number of bids under Measure 6...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There are currently two Mortgage to Rent (MTR) schemes funded by my Department. A Local Authority MTR scheme exists whereby a local authority can acquire ownership of properties with unsustainable local authority mortgages, thus enabling the household to remain in their home as social housing tenants.  From the scheme's inception in 2013 to the end of Q3 2019, 467...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not hold this type of information which is a matter for individual local authorities.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 748 to 752, inclusive, together. A range of housing options are necessary to ensure a supply of accommodation to meet different types of social housing need. Harnessing the off-balance sheet potential of private investment in social housing is an important objective of the Government and the social housing targets set out in Rebuilding Ireland over the period...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals.  At the end of Q3 2019, nearly 67,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 50,000 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 29,000 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Agency provides a central support service which assesses applications for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. Housing Agency recommendations are then considered by the Credit Committee in each local authority, which issues loan approvals. I asked the Agency to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015, provide the basis for the current Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme, which came into operation on 1 January 2016, which allows local authorities to sell local authority owned dwellings to existing social housing tenants. The Scheme does not extend to houses owned by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) as the ownership of these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Approved Housing Bodies play an increasingly integral role in the delivery of social homes across the country. Over the period 2011 to 2018 more than 11,000 new social homes have been delivered by Approved Housing Bodies and last year 38% of all the social homes delivered by the Rebuilding Ireland were delivered in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies.  As delivery has grown so too...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 760 and 761 together. The funding provided to Cavan County Council and Monaghan County Council under the main Local Authority Capital Programme for the construction and acquisition of social housing in each year for the period 2011 to 2018 is set out in the table below. LA 2011€m 2012€m 2013€m ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Earlier this year I announced details of the new Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021.  This included an improved funding scheme for individual wells.  The changes to this scheme demonstrate the Government's strong commitment to supporting this critically important resource and are as follows: - A maximum grant for rehabilitation works of €3,000 (which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (17 Dec 2019)

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.  Under the Household Means Policy, which applies in all local authorities, net income for social housing assessment is defined as gross household...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 766 to 768, inclusive, together. As Part 8 type developments are exempt from planning permission, my Department does not collate statistics in this regard.  In order to obtain this information, individual local authorities should be contacted directly.  In the first instance, it is a matter for each local authority and its elected members to agree...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Eligibility (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals.  At the end of Q3 2019, nearly 67,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 50,000 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 29,000 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme enables credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range, where they cannot obtain sufficient mortgage finance from a commercial lender.  As with the previous local authority loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is available to...