Results 7,321-7,340 of 15,555 for speaker:Eoghan Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget Measures (17 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: On 10 October, as part of Budget 2018, I announced an additional €75 million in Exchequer funding for new affordable housing initiatives. A second LIHAF infrastructure fund of €50 million will unlock even more sites, more quickly and at affordable prices. The first LIHAF was well over-subscribed, so it is expected that the second LIHAF call will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Surveys (17 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department intends to conduct a new strategic national analysis of the extent of residentially zoned land next year to update and expand upon the previous 2014 survey of the extent of lands zoned for housing in statutory development plans and local area plans set out in the table. Serviced & unserviced residentially zoned lands (ha) Housing potential(units) Est. housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Since the publication of Rebuilding Ireland, the Government’s attention has been firmly focused on delivery.  Implementation of Rebuilding Ireland is being advanced across a number of Departments, under the oversight of the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure, Housing, and Climate Change, chaired by An Taoiseach.  Within my own Department, a group of senior...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP), administered by my Department, provides funding to local authorities to support the on-going contractual costs of long term leases for housing units that are made available for social housing. These contractual arrangements - up to 30 years in duration - can be entered into with approved housing bodies (AHBs) in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (17 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 621 to 623, inclusive, together. Section 176 of the Residential Tenancies Act provides that the fees received by the Residential Tenancies Board under the Act shall be paid into, or disposed of for the benefit of, the Exchequer in such manner as I may direct. By various Ministerial Directions since 2005, a percentage of fees received by the RTB...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Standards (17 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: All properties let, or available to let, must comply with the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations.  All landlords have a legal obligation to ensure that their rented properties comply with the Regulations, including management companies where they are also landlords.  Responsibility for enforcement of the Regulations rests with the relevant local authority....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Motor Tax (17 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Private motor vehicles are classified for purposes of motor tax based on the information contained in the Vehicle Registration Certificate (VRC). This certificate is issued by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners when the Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) has been paid and is based on the information contained in the Certificate of Conformity provided by the vehicle manufacturer which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (12 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 185 and 186 together. Information regarding the availability of residential zoned land is available on the Rebuilding Ireland Housing Land map. This is based on a national survey of all lands zoned for residential or primarily residential development in statutory local authority development plans and local area plans across Ireland, to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (12 Oct 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...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I very much welcome this budget. I hope that people can recognise all the good it will do in helping people out of homelessness and into new social housing homes, in supporting people in to rented accommodation and in removing significant obstacles to getting more homes built, more quickly and at more affordable prices. Any new home built, be it by the private sector or through social...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: This is all we have been talking about.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: While my Department has overall responsibility for the Local Government (Superannuation) (Consolidation) Scheme 1998, the payment of pensions under the terms of the scheme is a matter for each local authority and queries should be directed to the relevant local authority in the first instance. I am aware that in this case an internal review procedure has taken place, the outcome...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Rebuilding Ireland has put in place the funding resources to accelerate the delivery of social housing for all local authorities. Arising from Budget 2018, I am very pleased that over €6 billion in exchequer investment has now been secured to support its implementation and to deliver an increased number of 50,000 social housing homes through build, refurbishment,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (11 Oct 2017)

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 accommodation for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities.  My Department does not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (11 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. Irish Water has entered into service level agreements (SLA) with each local authority for the provision of water services.  Staff in local authorities working under these arrangements remain local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (11 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Households, including homeless households, that have been assessed by their local authority as having a housing need, are placed on the housing waiting list.  The oversight and management of housing waiting lists is a matter for the individual housing authorities, in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations, and the details...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (11 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 amends the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to provide for the introduction of Rent Pressure Zones. The 2004 Act applies to every dwelling that is the subject of a tenancy, subject to a limited number of exceptions.  The dwellings to which the Act does not apply are set out in section 3(2) of the Act and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 705 and 738 together. The European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2014, as amended, give legal effect in Ireland to the Nitrates Directive and to our Nitrates Action Programme (NAP). The Directive requires all member states to define set periods when the land application of fertiliser, including slurry, is not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Refunds (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services recommended adherence to the principle of equity of treatment for those who have paid and have not paid their water charges since domestic charges were introduced. The Oireachtas approved the committee’s report last April. In this context, the recently published Water Services Bill 2017 includes a...