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Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Property Services Regulatory Authority (Amendment) (Bidding Transparency) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My predecessor as Minister, in conjunction with my colleague, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, announced an emerging "preferred draft approach" to the review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines in June 2017. A copy of the announcement is available on my Department’s website at the following link: As part of the overall review, a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 607 and 642 to 645, inclusive, together. Section 229 of the Local Government Act 2001(as amended) provides local authorities with the statutory authority to enter into a contract with any person in respect of any matter arising in relation to the functions of the local authority. This provision allows local authorities to enter into contracts with property...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tank Grants (21 Nov 2017)

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: Planning Issues (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 35 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, enables planning authorities to refuse - subject to certain limitations - planning applications by any person who has not previously complied with a planning permission, with conditions attached to a permission, or who has previously carried out unauthorised development. In the context of the Planning and Development...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: As the Deputy will be aware, the setting of social housing rents is a matter for each individual local authority. Section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, as amended, provided for the introduction of a national framework for social housing rents. Considerable work has been carried out by my Department in developing a draft framework for a harmonisation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 611, 627 and 629 together. The Government recognises the housing affordability pressures faced by households with low to moderate income, particularly in parts of the country where housing costs are highest. Therefore, housing affordability has been examined by my Department, in consultation with the Housing Agency, local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Data (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not hold or collate the data referred to by the Deputy in relation to the number of persons registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) on a county basis. The Clerk of the Dáil has requested that arrangements be put in place to facilitate the provision of information by State Bodies to members of the Oireachtas. Following the issue of Circular LG...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (21 Nov 2017)

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. On 1 July 2017, updated regulatory standards, the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017, came into...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Brexit Negotiations (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: As Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with special responsibility for Brexit, Minister Coveney has responsibility for co-ordinating the whole-of-Government response to Brexit. In this capacity, he is working closely with his colleagues across Government to address the many challenges resulting from Brexit. This co-operation also involves the relevant State Agencies. Work at Cabinet...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Training (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The cost to my Department in providing external coaching and or training services for the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017 is set out in the table. The providers of these courses comprise a wide range of educational institutes including but not limited to: - Universities – TCD, UCD, DCU, UCC, NUIM, NUIG, UL. - Other third level institutions: NCI, DIT, CMIT, IT...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I have consistently indicated that the current level of homelessness is unacceptable and that it is essential that we continue to make every possible effort to address this. Nevertheless, in order to ensure that we are designing and implementing policy supports that are compassionate and effective, and in order to get a better understanding of which responses are working and which are not,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The information sought in respect of the funding provided over the period 2007 to 2017 is set out in the table.  The figures encompass funding for the provision of social housing by local authorities and approved housing bodies, including land costs, and also the funding provided for the full range of stock improvement, energy efficiency, adaptation and regeneration works carried out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the Domain Names registered to or owned by my Department or through a third party company are set out in the Table.  Domain Name activecitizen.ie activecitizenship.ie consultations.environ.ie electoralcommission.ie electoral-commission.ie Firesafetyweek.ie hap.ie ireland2040.ie irishmeteorologicalservice.com irishmeteorologicalservice.eu...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rents Data (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Budget 2018 has increased the Exchequer funding for the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme by €149m to €301 million. This will allow for the continued support of existing HAP households at end 2017 and also enable the additional 17,000 households targeted under Rebuilding Ireland to be supported by HAP in 2018, as well as supporting the roll-out of the HAP Place Finder...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The overall aim of the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is to increase housing supply by removing infrastructural obstacles that were preventing the early development of key sites. All proposals for funding under LIHAF were assessed in line with the criteria set out in the Call for Proposals (Circular PL 10/2016) which issued on 26 August 2016 which was further...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate housing support that is now available to all eligible households throughout the State. Budget 2018 has increased the Exchequer funding for the HAP scheme by €149m to €301 million in order to meet the continuing costs of existing households and the costs of meeting the additional 17,000 households, targeted under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 625 and 626 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Expenditure (21 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals. There are currently more than 29,800 households having their housing needs met via HAP and over 20,000 landlords and agents in receipt of HAP payments. A weekly average of  348 HAP tenancies have been set up during 2017, and more than 420 a week averaged over the last 5...