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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Review (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters Regulations 2014 give legal effect in Ireland to the Nitrates Directive and to our Nitrates Action Programme (NAP). The objective of the Regulations is to protect groundwater and surface waters, including drinking water sources, primarily through the management of livestock manures and other fertilisers. Ireland has obligations...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens Assembly (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The issue of the right to housing was debated in Dáil Eireann and Seanad Eireann recently. Arising from this, a motion to refer the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, which dealt with economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to housing, to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach was passed by the Dáil on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme administered by my Department, plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals. There are currently more than 28,500 households having their housing needs met via HAP and some 20,000 landlords or agents currently in receipt of HAP payments. A weekly average of 350 HAP tenancies have been set-up during 2017. HAP is a form of social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authority house purchase loan finance continues to be made available to first time buyers only, for the acquisition of houses or for the construction of new houses. The Housing (Home Choice Loan) Regulations 2009 which underpin the Home Choice Loan scheme are clear in this regard. I have no plans, at this time, to alter the Regulations in respect of their application to first time...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Emergency Plan (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is designated as the Lead Government Department for coordinating the response to severe weather emergencies. My Department’s National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management (NDFEM) is mandated by the Secretary General to decide if and when to convene a National Emergency Coordination Group (NECG) on behalf of my Department and the National Director, or his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The new Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme for existing local authority houses 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, have been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Student Accommodation (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has implemented several measures to assist the increase in delivery of student accommodation projects under the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016, including fast-tracking planning applications to An Bord Pleanála for student accommodation projects of 200+ bed spaces, and facilitating low-cost funding availability from the Housing Finance...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government recognises the ongoing rates of homeless presentation, which are essentially a result of a shortage of housing supply in both the social and private rented sectors. It is for this reason that the overarching objective of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessnessis to increase the supply of new homes, across all forms of housing, to 25,000 per annum by...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 3:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“notes that:— the Government has responded to the current housing crisis with a comprehensive range of actions, policy initiatives and increased investments, as outlined in the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Strategy for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services was published on 12 April 2017 and approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Government recently approved the recommendations of the Report of the Working Group on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, which, consistent with the recommendations of report of the Joint Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Credit Unions (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Programme for a Partnership Government recognises the potential role that credit unions can play in housing finance and supports the efforts of the Registrar of Credit Unions at the Central Bank to gradually lift current lending restrictions as appropriate, including for housing.  The Programme further provides for consideration, with all stakeholders, as to how credit unions can...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Planning statistics are compiled by each planning authority on an annual basis for collation and publication on my Department’s website. The statistics collected relate to the total numbers of: - Invalid applications received, - Applications received for outline permission and full permission, - Decisions to grant/refuse permission, - Decisions issued within the statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 404 and 405 together. Announcements of new social housing approvals that were made in May 2015 and January 2016 followed the publication of the Social Housing Strategy. These announcements covered the delivery of new social housing construction schemes under both the local authority construction programme and the Capital Assistance Scheme, which provides...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: A total of 3,379 new local authority social homes have been approved for construction from February 2016 to date, under my Department’s capital funding programmes. The breakdown by local authority is set out in the following table.  Local Authority Number of homes Carlow County Council 133 Cavan County Council 8 Clare County Council 30 Cork County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Youth Homelessness Strategy (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: At the outset, it is important to clarify that policy responsibility for children who require safe accommodation without their parent(s) or guardian(s), referred to as children 'out of home', is a matter for the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. In relation to families currently residing in emergency accommodation, with associated dependents, the Government's Rebuilding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: While my Department does not collate the information sought, individual local authorities and the Housing Agency will have details of all lands they own, including information on costs and valuations. Details of all local authority housing lands are available on the Rebuilding Ireland Housing Land Map at the following link: . Local authorities and the Housing Agency are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Oct 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 and housing agency lands as quickly as possible, particularly in areas where demand is greatest. To this end, on 27 April 2017, details of some 1,700 hectares of land in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Section 3(A)(9) of the Water Services Act 2014 (inserted by Section 48 of the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015), a person who is a tenant of a dwelling let to him/her under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2014 and who proposes to purchase the dwelling must, before completion of the sale, provide the local authority concerned with a certificate of discharge from Irish Water...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The total cost of the 34 projects approved under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund 2017-2019 is €226 million, of which 75% (€169.5 million) will be funded by my Department, with local authorities funding 25% (€56.5 million). This funding is ring-fenced within the overall housing budget and will be available for local authorities to draw down...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (24 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes comprehensive status reports on a quarterly basis of all social housing construction schemes for all local authority areas, showing details such as their locations and a range of information relating to their advancement. The most recent of these reports covers the period up to the end of quarter 2 of 2017; it contains information on...