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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding to local authorities to acquire a range of properties for social housing use. The properties involved can range from those in good condition to those that need remediation and may have been vacant. To ensure a local led response to such work, responsibility for property acquisitions is delegated to local authorities. To further assist local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (23 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The agencies, boards and other bodies under the aegis of my Department that have been disbanded or amalgamated or whose functions were subsumed back into my Department since 2011, some of which have since moved to the remit of other Departments, are set out in the following tables: Agencies,  Boards and Bodies Comment National Building Agency Merged with the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The details requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department are a matter for the individual bodies concerned and are not collated or retained by my Department. Arrangements have been put in place by each agency to facilitate the provision of information by State Bodies directly to members of the Oireachtas. The relevant contact email address for each agency, to which members...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (23 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is responsible for the provision of Traveller-specific accommodation which is designed to address the accommodation needs of indigenous Irish Travellers under the 1998 Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act. This Act provides a legislative framework to meet the needs of indigenous Irish Travellers. Other minority communities, such as Roma, are not covered by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (23 Jan 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, through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments and through working with approved housing bodies under a range of delivery options. Provisional details on social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (18 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The most recently published statutory summary of social housing assessments relates to the assessment carried out in 2016.  This summary is a record of the number of households on all local authority waiting lists, as at 21 September 2016.  The results of the 2016 summary show that there were 91,600 households deemed qualified for, and in need...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (18 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 353 and 354 together. The targets referred to by the Deputy relate to delivery targets from the previous Social Housing Strategy 2020.  The current targets for social housing delivery are set out in Rebuilding Ireland, the Government’s Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, which was published in July 2016 and is available at the following...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (18 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The project at Lord Edward Street, Limerick, which consists of 81 units, has an overall capital budget of over €19 million including land acquisition, site development and enabling works. Construction commenced in February 2016 and was expected to take 18 months to complete. The houses were completed in December 2017 and they are currently...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (18 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing 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, which comprises six PPP sites, is to provide over 500 units in the Greater Dublin Area. Two of the sites are located in the Dublin City Council area with one each in the County Council areas of South...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (18 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 357 and 358 together. My Department is currently undertaking a focussed review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines.  As part of the overall review, a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is being undertaken on the revised Guidelines before they come into effect. This is in accordance with the requirements of EU Directive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Enforcement (18 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In September 2017, as part of the review of the Rent Predictability Measures, I announced a series of measures in relation to the rental sector, including a two-year change plan to develop and strengthen the role of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), particularly with regard to enforcement. Charging rents above those permitted by Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2016 will become an...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We will be reintroducing an affordable housing scheme very shortly. It does not require new legislation because legislation is already in place which we will re-purpose for the scheme.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: New legislation is not required. We have legislation in place from 2009, from which we will take provisions and regulations for a new scheme to be introduced very shortly.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The tenant purchase scheme was overhauled very recently. We undertook a second review over the course of this year, which is now almost complete. We are in consultation with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We are finalising the review and will be publishing the details very shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Planning authorities and An Bord Pleanála are required to take account of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines for Planning Authorities, which were issued as statutory guidance by the Minister under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, when considering planning applications or appeals in respect of proposed wind energy developments. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authority house purchase loan finance continues to be made available to first time buyers only. The Housing (Local Authority Loans) Regulations 2012 are kept under on-going review and there are no plans, at this time, to alter the scope of the Regulations to include non-first time buyers. The option currently available for non-first time buyers is to seek home loan facilities from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Aggregation Scheme was introduced in 2010 as part of revised arrangements for the funding of land for housing purposes.  The primary purpose of the Scheme was to assist in the gradual unwinding of loans taken out by housing authorities to purchase land for the social and affordable housing investment programme.   Local authorities were invited to apply to my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities have a number of options available to them in meeting social housing needs. These include, if they consider it appropriate, the transfer of a site from a person qualified for social housing to the local authority, and the building of a social house on the site by the local authority, to be tenanted by the person who transferred the site. I understand that the scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (17 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s overall key priorities in terms of capital investment in the period to 2027 include: - social housing delivery and regeneration; - output of housing generally, supported by targeted infrastructural investment; - investment in our water services infrastructure through Irish Water and rural water programmes; - supporting sustainable growth in...