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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (7 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 homeless services, including accommodation, rests with individual housing authorities. It should be noted that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas.  My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (7 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 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: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (7 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: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As part of Budget 2018, I announced that an additional €50 million Exchequer funding will be available for a second Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) call. This will, as was the case in the original LIHAF call, be subject to matching funding by local authorities, where the Department will provide 75% Exchequer funding, with the Local Authorities themselves...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tank Grants (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 Environmental Protection Agency’s National Inspection Plan, to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government’s Public Service Reform Plan included a proposal to merge the Valuation Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland and the Property Registration Authority to provide an opportunity for more efficient and effective delivery of land, spatial data and property administration services in Ireland. One of the key milestones of the merger project centres around progressing the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Brexit Data (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Brexit-related contingency planning at both a domestic and an EU level is focused on three areas: preparing for a no-deal scenario or so-called “disorderly Brexit”; preparing for a transition period based on the “status quo”; and preparing for the future EU-UK relationship. While the outcome of the December European Council and the move on to Phase 2 has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Brexit Data (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s priorities are, primarily, of a domestic focus and, as such, no additional funding was sought in 2018 for Brexit-related matters nor has there been a requirement to recruit additional staff to work specifically on Brexit policy in 2018. While there is no requirement at this point in time for staff members to be assigned on a full time basis to Brexit matters, a team...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme involves an investment with a capital value of €300 million. It is to deliver 1,500 social housing units in total, via three bundles. The first bundle comprises six sites and will provide over 500 units in the Greater Dublin Area. A contract notice for this bundle was published on 12 May 2017 in the Official Journal of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards Data (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, I am responsible for appointments to the boards of relevant bodies under the aegis of my Department. All appointments are made in accordance with the requirements of the governing legislation and the Government Guidelines on Appointments to State Boards. Full information of the kind sought by the Deputy is not held by my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Strategy Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Reporting on implementation of my Department's Statement of Strategy is done, primarily, through Annual Reports. The most recently published such report is for 2016 and is available at: . In accordance with the Public Service Management Act 1997 and following my appointment to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in June 2017, a new Strategy Statement was prepared for the...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am unclear on the scheme to which Deputy Fleming refers. Is it the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme, the repair-and-leasing scheme or the enhanced leasing scheme?

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I beg the Deputy's pardon. We have put out an expression of interest for a new mortgage-to-rent scheme, as referenced by the Deputy, and are currently working on it. Under the previous mortgage-to-rent scheme, we moved to a position with one of the approved housing bodies whereby it would take bundles of loans from the banks and debt would be written off. Under the expression of interest...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Transparency is very important when it comes to the work of local authorities and ensuring that the questions they put to Departments are answered efficiently. I will take that correspondence from the Deputy, because I have not seen it, and I will talk to officials in the Department to see how we can ensure that every Department replies to questions from local authorities across the country.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency (6 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Funding of €200 million for the new Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan has been raised by the Housing Finance Agency, HFA, from a variety of sources, on a fixed rate basis for periods out to thirty years maturity. Based on the pricing achieved, local authorities can offer a first tranche of fixed-rate annuity finance to eligible borrowers at rates of 2.0% and 2.25% per annum, for twenty...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (6 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Of the 50,000 social housing units to be delivered under the Rebuilding Ireland action plan for housing and homelessness, just over 10,000 will be secured by local authorities and approved housing bodies, AHBs, under leasing arrangements from a range of different sources, including direct leasing by both local authorities and AHBs from private owners. The social housing current expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (6 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 made available on 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 in a suitable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (6 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Through the supports made available from my Department under Rebuilding Ireland, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects and through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments for social housing use. Provisional details on social housing delivery in 2017,  including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (6 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...