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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: All I can say is that it is too soon for me to be able to say if any will actually be completed this year. However, I know what the Deputy's line of sight and thinking is. That might be the case. Let me confirm it first before I can know for certain. More than likely, because of the speed at which the land is being identified, the best expectation is for commencing construction.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My role, as Minister, in relation to the planning system is mainly to provide and update the legislative and policy guidance framework. The legislative framework comprises the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act) and the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001-2017. With regard to policy guidance, my Department has issued a significant number of planning guidelines...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Capital funding is provided by my Department to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), via the local authorities, for the construction costs of eligible sheltered housing projects under the Capital Assistance Scheme. The AHB receives rental income and, thereafter, the costs of operating the housing, including provision of necessary services, is a matter for the AHB. My Department does not fund the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 224, 234 and 242 together. The Government acknowledges the affordability pressures faced by households with low to moderate incomes in particular parts of the country. It is precisely for that reason that the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness has prioritised the supply of new homes to meet current and pent-up demand, as well as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Question No. 663 of 23 January 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand that negotiations between Meath County Council and the Department of Education and Skills regarding the transfer of the site to facilitate housing development in the Ashbourne area, are at an advanced stage. My Department recently wrote to the Department of Education and Skills, to highlight the potential value of this site to support housing delivery under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department makes funding available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects, the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments and through working with approved housing bodies under a range of delivery options. A breakdown of the units delivered in 2016 and up to the end of quarter 3 of 2017 is published and available...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 228 and 246 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Investment Bank (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 229 and 237 together. The Government is committed to working with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to secure long-term, low-interest funds for major infrastructure works, including housing development. Potential mechanisms for investment in social and affordable housing were the focus of a high-level event, jointly organised by my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 230 and 231 together. The National Planning Framework (NPF), which is currently in the process of being finalised, will set out an ambitious vision for what our country should and can look like in 2040.  The Framework advances national policy around both brownfield policy and infill areas by providing targets as part of a wider strategy for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government acknowledges the affordability pressures faced by households with low to moderate incomes in particular parts of the country. It is precisely for that reason that the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness has prioritised the supply of new homes to meet current and pent-up demand, as well as helping to moderate house prices and rents, on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 236 and 244 together. The Government recognises the housing affordability pressures in certain areas and is determined to see increases in the supply of high quality social and affordable homes, to buy or rent, as quickly as possible, particularly in the major urban areas such as Dublin, Cork and Galway. The Government has already introduced a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The zoning of lands for particular uses is a reserved function of the elected members of a planning authority, in accordance with the statutory development plan procedures under the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). Chapter 4 of the 2007 Development Plans Guidelines issued under section 28 of the Act provides a framework to be used, when considering decisions on zoning as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Following a review of the two existing local authority home loan schemes, the House Purchase Loan and the Home Choice Loan, I am introducing a new loan offering, known as the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan, with effect 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested is set out in the table. For 2017, in addition to the funding provided to local authorities under the build and acquisition programme, further funding of €70 million was provided in respect of the Housing Agency Acquisitions programme to facilitate the acquisition of suitable portfolios of properties for social housing from financial institutions and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 241, 243 and 247 together. Following a review of the two existing local authority home loan schemes, the House Purchase Loan and the Home Choice Loan, I am introducing 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: At the second Housing Summit, held on January 22nd, I asked each Local Authority Chief Executive to furnish a report by mid-February, confirming and setting out how their Local Authority will deliver on its social housing targets over the coming years. It is my intention that the targets will be published as soon as possible thereafter, and progress made by each Local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (24 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 178 and 181 together. Section 24A of the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016  sets out the procedure for the Minister to prescribe, by order, an area as a Rent Pressure Zone. It provides that the Housing Agency, in consultation with the relevant housing authority, may make a written proposal to the Minister that an identified area be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The specific information requested by the Deputy is not collected by my Department. However, the following information has recently been received from local authorities on the number of homes - as distinct from other properties and sites - acquired by compulsory purchase order under the relevant legislation in respect of the years 2013-2017, and is set out in the table. It...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Remit (24 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In cases on appeal, where a planning authority has refused to grant permission for a proposed development because it would contravene materially the local development plan, and in certain cases where planning applications are made directly to An Bord Pleanála (the Board), the Board may, under the provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Planning Act),...