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

Eoghan Murphy: The processing of individual Parliamentary Questions is undertaken as part of the normal day to day work of individual Sections within my Department and no staff in my Department are assigned full time to dealing with Parliamentary Questions.  The number and level of staff, and the time spent on individual replies, depends on the complexity and urgency of the issues raised, the ease of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The process of Agrément certification applies to those products and processes which do not fall within the scope of existing construction standards, either because they are innovative or because they deviate from established norms. The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) Agrément assesses, specifies testing, and where appropriate, issues Agrément certificates...

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

Eoghan Murphy: There is no provision in the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 to fund a party's legal costs in a judicial review. However, Part 2 of the Act makes an exception to the general rule that costs follow the event, by providing in section 3 that, in general and regardless of the outcome of proceedings, all parties must pay their own costs in civil proceedings to which section 4 of...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Section 261 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which introduced a once-off system of registration for most existing quarries, with the possibility of follow-up action in relation to an individual quarry by the planning authority concerned, came into operation on 28 April 2004. Subsection (8) of section 261, as amended, provides for the making of a compensation claim...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, noted that the Programme for a Partnership Government contains a commitment to develop a "cost rental" option, taking account of work already completed in this area, including by the National Economic and Social Council and others. In line with this commitment, Action 12 of the Strategy commits my...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness was published in July 2016 and after one year of implementation, it was important to review overall progress and impact. The housing activity reports, available on , show that the strong supply-side measures introduced under Rebuilding Ireland are beginning to have a positive impact and all output...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Through the supports made available 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, including through working with approved housing bodies. Details on the number of properties purchased and...

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

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 areas, beginning on 1 January 2017, and to issue annual notices to owners of vacant sites by 1 June 2018 in...

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

Eoghan Murphy: A key objective of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is to increase the supply of high quality social housing and homes at more affordable price points, on local authority lands as quickly as possible, particularly in areas where demand is greatest. To this end, all local authorities are preparing Strategic Development and Management Plans for their housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Eligibility (16 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate housing support that is available to all eligible households throughout the State. Under the HAP scheme, eligible households source their own accommodation in the private rented sector, which best suits their needs in their area of choice.  To be eligible for HAP, a household must have been assessed for social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (16 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 253 and 254 together. I refer to my reply to Question No. 522 of 14 November 2017. While my Department does not hold this information in respect of local authority houses, central heating systems have been provided in all new local authority dwellings as a matter of course since 1994. In addition, the extensive central heating upgrade programme in social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (16 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 257 together. Nationally, funding of €1.9bn is available for social housing delivery in 2018. This is an increase of 46% over the funding of €1.3 billion available in 2017. There is no precise amount of capital funding notified to individual local authorities for the delivery of housing in a particular year. Authorities can...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gender Balance (16 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The information sought is provided in the following table. In the case of certain appointments to State Boards, statutory selection procedures must be followed or nominations must be sought from independent nominating panels before appointments are made by the Minister or the Government, as appropriate. In addition, in the case of a number of Boards, not all of the appointments to the body...

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Jan O'Sullivan for providing this opportunity for the House to discuss the various actions on homelessness that are being implemented, and the various challenges and difficulties that remain. Significant work is being carried out across the sector by housing authorities, approved housing bodies and homeless service providers to tackle and address the housing crisis and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I very much welcome this opportunity to discuss with the committee the progress to date in 2017 on expenditure and outputs in respect of my Department’s programme and also the prospects for next year in light of budget 2018. I am accompanied by the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, who will take questions on the programmes related to planning and Met Éireann, and Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In terms of our own figures on the capital side for housing, we are at 74% spend for the year, which is dramatically up on where we might have been this time last year. This is because we are ramping up our programmes in terms of delivery for build, acquisition and everything else that we are hoping to do in respect of social housing. Traditionally, capital spend drawdown can be lumpy in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My apologies. I will revert to the Deputy on current expenditure in the housing programme in a moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: More people would have applied or subscribed to the fund than the level of funding that was available. We would have tiered programmes based on various criteria. We allocated €224 million as a priority, even though €200 million was the allocation given. We did that to make sure that if there was a delay in one area, we could quickly move to another programme to ensure that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his question. I will make a number of points, taking into account the context in which the question is framed and the Daft.ie report. It is important to note that the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, has its own rent index. This is based on a much larger data set, with more aggregate. It is based on actual registered tenancies and rents paid, not rents advertised....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

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