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

Eoghan Murphy: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas.  My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and...

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

Eoghan Murphy: A key priority for Government is to accelerate and increase the supply of new homes across all forms of housing, social housing, private market purchase and homes to rent. Rebuilding Ireland – Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness sets out ambitious targets to, inter alia, double the annual level of new homes built to 25,000 by 2020 and to deliver an additional 47,000 social...

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

Eoghan Murphy: There are no specific planning guidelines in place in respect of solar farms. Proposals for individual solar farm developments are subject to the statutory requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, in the same manner as other proposed developments. Planning applications are made to the relevant local planning authority with a right of appeal to An Bord...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services (JOCFFDWS) recommended that wilful wastage of water should be curbed. The Committee's Report was approved by the Oireachtas and the recently published Water Services Bill 2017 reflects the recommendations contained in the Report. The Bill provides that households will be liable to pay for water services used...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 716, 720 and 721 together. Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, 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. Details on the number of properties purchased...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 717 to 719, inclusive, together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Over 19,000 households were housed last year under the range of Social Housing Programmes. Statistics on the number of social housing properties constructed, purchased and leased by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies are published on my Department’s website at the following link: . In terms of overall housing construction, the ESB residential connections...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 612 of 3 October 2017 which sets out the position in this matter.

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides for the transfer, by Ministerial Order, of the property of a water services authority (a city or county council) to Irish Water.  Up to the end of September 2017, eleven Ministerial Orders have been made to transfer water services assets, including underground assets, from the local authorities to Irish Water. In relation to obsolete...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I have no statutory role in the registration of rights under the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act.  Under the Foreshore Act 1933, I am responsible for regulating the harvesting of wild seaweed. My Department has been engaged in extensive consultations with key stakeholders and the Attorney General with a view to bringing forward a modern regulatory foreshore...

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

Eoghan Murphy: There are two Ministers of State assigned to my Department, Minister of State Damien English and Minister of State John Paul Phelan. A range of responsibilities in the areas of Planning, Housing, Marine and Foreshore, and Fire Services have been assigned to Minister of State English.   These functions include oversight of the implementation of local authority Development...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 728 and 734 together. Since the introduction of the Mortgage to Rent (MTR) Scheme in 2012, a total of 3,765 cases have been submitted under the scheme to the end of September 2017.  Of the 3,765 cases submitted, 2,909 were ineligible or terminated during the process.  Of the remaining cases submitted, 282 have been completed, and the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 729 and 730 together. Action 5.1 of the Government's Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness - Rebuilding Ireland, which was published in July 2016, commits to the development of a National Vacant Housing Re-Use Strategy informed by Census 2016 data, to- - inform the compilation of a register of vacant units across the country, - identify the number,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Data (10 Oct 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...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Buy & Renew initiative is in the early stages of being implemented across all local authorities.   However, we are seeing positive signs of its potential to deliver new social housing units, in addition to the other advantages it can bring of supporting strategies on vacant homes and urban renewal.   Its implementation as part of the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) was piloted in Carlow and Waterford and has been rolled out nationally since 23 February last. My Department has been working intensively with local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies to develop and implement the scheme and individual targets have been set for local authorities for 2017. The scheme is one of a suite of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Dumping at Sea (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Correspondence is continuing between the State's legal service and Solicitors representing a named party seeking to have the named party remove the material placed in the Mud Dock with the aim of having the matter resolved as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Policy responsibility for A Vision for Change, which is being implemented by the HSE in conjunction with other agencies, is a matter for the Minister for Health. The National Housing Strategy for People With a Disability (NHSPWD) 2011 - 2016 and associated National Implementation Framework, were jointly published by my Department and the Department of Health.  They set out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department funds a range of housing supports for persons with a disability, living in both privately owned housing and local authority housing. Applications in all cases are made to the local authority. The Disabled Person Grant Scheme provides funds to local authorities to undertake adaptations and extensions to homes to meet the needs of local authority tenants with a disability, or...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The purpose of both the National Planning Framework (NPF) and the corresponding Regional Spatial and Economic Strategies (RSES) is to set long-term national and regional development frameworks within which Government Departments and Agencies, the regional assemblies and local authorities, as well as wider private sector and community interests will work together to ensure proper planning and...