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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (16 Jan 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 emergency accommodation for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. The specific data...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1802 and 1803 together. My Department is carrying out a search of its records. Details of any funding provided to environmental non-governmental organisations will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders. 

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is recognised that hotel accommodation is inappropriate for accommodating homeless families for anything other than a short period of time. Accordingly, the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessnessincludes the objective that hotels will only be used in limited circumstances as emergency accommodation for families. To meet this objective, in addition to providing for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (16 Jan 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 emergency accommodation for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. It is recognised...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested in the question is set out in the following table. Year Projects Undertaken to consolidate or amalgamate existing legislation Cost Duration of project Number of Staff Required DHPLG or Outsourced Process outsourced? (Yes/No) 2007 Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (unofficial consolidation) N/A – part of Department’s regular staff...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1808 and 1827 together. The total cost of the 34 projects which received preliminary approval under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund in March 2017 was €226 million, of which 75% (€169.5 million) will be funded by my Department, with local authorities funding 25% (€56.5 million).  Grant agreements have been signed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1809, 1812 and 1813 together. Through the supports made available from my Department, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects, the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments for social housing use and through working with approved housing bodies. Provisional...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1810 and 1830 together. The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) has been developed to assist private property owners and local authorities or Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to harness the accommodation potential that exists in certain vacant properties across Ireland. The scheme is targeted at owners of vacant properties who cannot afford or access the funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government has set out an ambitious set of targets for the delivery of social housing to the period to 2021 in its Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan. A commitment to deliver 50,000 new social housing homes through a range of delivery mechanisms is being supported by a multi-annual Exchequer commitment totalling €6.5 billion over the period of the plan. These targets will be achieved...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ESB Connections were used for many years as a proxy for housing completions.  It is recognised that the ESB connections data include reconnections of properties vacant for two years or more and while the bringing back into use of vacant properties of this kind is welcome in terms of making efficient use of the overall housing stock, it is important that an improved breakdown is generated...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Thatching Grants Applications (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Communications have issued directly to the applicant in this case who has sought a thatching grant, seeking the return of the ‘Certificate of Approval’ that is prepared following the first inspection of the house. This Certificate must be signed by the thatcher, who carried out the work, as well as by the applicant. The last communication from my Department to the applicant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 introduced a new measure, the vacant site levy, which is aimed at incentivising the development of vacant, under-utilised sites in urban areas.  Under the Act, planning authorities are required to establish a register of vacant sites in their area.  The levy will be applied by planning authorities, commencing on 1 January 2019 in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (16 Jan 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Water Services Act 2017 (No. 29 of 2017), which was enacted on 17 November 2017, reflects the recommendations of the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, which was published in April 2017 and approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Act provides for the discontinuance of domestic water charges for dwellings as set out in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Disability Act 2005 provides for a statutory annual report on the employment of people with disabilities in the public sector. The latest available figures relate to 2016 when 4.7% of staff in my Department declared themselves as having a disability as defined under the Disability Act 2005.  The Department only records data on those staff members who have self-declared...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Standards (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, set out a series of measures to be introduced to ensure the quality of private rental accommodation by strengthening the applicable standards and improving the inspection and enforcement systems. Since the establishment of the RTB, over €34 million has been paid to local authorities to assist them in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, a total of 208 rapid delivery homes were completed by end 2017.  There are currently some 20 further rapid delivery projects, yielding in excess of 470 social homes, at various stages of advancement, the vast majority of which are scheduled for delivery in 2018. Under my Department’s current funding programmes, approved housing bodies (AHB)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Delivering cost rental will be an important part of the overall solution to the affordability challenge and work is under way to identify potential local authority sites that can be developed for cost rental projects, particularly in areas of high housing demand and high accommodation costs.  In this regard, the Housing Agency and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Through the supports made available from my Department, 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. Details on the number of properties purchased...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 63(3) of the Local Government Act 2001 provides that, subject to law, a local authority is independent in the performance of its functions. The allocation of social housing support to qualified households is a matter for the local authority concerned in accordance with the authority’s allocation scheme made under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009...