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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The allocation of social housing support is a matter for the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations. Section 22 of the Act requires all housing authorities, as a reserved function, to make an allocation scheme determining the order of priority to be accorded in the allocation of dwellings to households...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 604, 611 and 616 together. The Government recognises the housing affordability pressures faced by many households, particularly in certain parts of the country. It is for this reason that the overarching objective of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is to increase the supply of new homes to 25,000 per annum by 2020. In...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness has put in place the funding resources to accelerate the delivery of social housing for all local authorities. Critically, €5.35 billion in Exchequer investment has been secured to support its implementation and to deliver 47,000 social housing units through build, refurbishment, acquisitions and leasing, over the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Details of the dispute resolution procedures undertaken by the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), their outcomes, reasons for disputes and duration of disputes are available in the RTB Annual Reports, which are available on the Board's website at . The Clerk of the Dáil has requested that arrangements be put in place to facilitate the provision of information by State...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Applications (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The primary purpose of social housing support is to assist the provision of suitable accommodation for households who have a housing need but do not have sufficient resources to secure accommodation from their own resources. The 2011 Social Housing Assessment Regulations provide that a household is ineligible for social housing support if a household member owns alternative accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Programme for a Partnership Government, published in May 2016, includes a commitment to examine reclassifying and incentivising the use of underutilised or vacant areas over groundfloor premises in urban areas, for both residential and commercial use. A key objective of Pillar 5 of the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, launched...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: A funding investment of €5.35 billion is being provided to support the implementation of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness which aims to deliver 47,000 social housing units through build, refurbishment, acquisitions and leasing, over the period to 2021.  This level of investment ensures that funding is available to all local authorities to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Electoral Act 1997 provides for the regulation of election spending and for the regulation of donations given for political purposes to election candidates, political parties and third parties as defined in the Act. Spending at referendums is not regulated by the Act. The Standards in Public Office Commission has recommended that provision be made to require both third parties and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Under my Department’s new Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2016 – 2018, there are six different funding measures. Measure 2 supports projects to make existing group water schemes more efficient in their operation (e.g. water conservation, network upgrades and source protection). Funding in 2017 under this measure is in the form of a block grant allocation to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department currently has one staffing sanction request from Dublin City Council and two staffing sanction requests from Fingal County Council respectively. All three requests are currently under consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority. Commercial rates form an important...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services reported in April 2017 and its report was approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Committee recommended that the principles of equity of treatment and equivalent financial support should be applied equally between households on public water supplies and those in Group Schemes and those using individual...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The making and amending of rent schemes is the responsibility of local authorities, as an integral part of their housing management functions, subject to broad principles laid down by my Department in Circular letter HRT 3/2002 of 6 March 2002. It is a matter for local authorities, when assessing individual households, to consider whether rents payable are in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 618 to 622, inclusive, together. The detailed advancement of housing and other works under the Limerick Regeneration programme is a matter in the first instance for Limerick City & County Council. The table attached sets out the Council's regeneration numbers for housing units that have been completed, are in progress or are planned in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I have no proposals for funding from Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for the refurbishment of a group of maisonettes in St. Laurence's Park in Stillorgan, County Dublin at this time.  The Council recently submitted draft proposals to my Department for the development of social housing and a library on the site and the Council are required to carry out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Social housing projects funded by my Department, like all Government Capital construction projects, must comply with the Government’s Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF), the objectives of which are to ensure greater cost certainty, better value for money and financial accountability during all stages of project delivery. While my Department must comply with the CWMF, we also...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Migrant Integration (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 625 and 626 together. Under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, an operational sub-group under the auspices of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) Taskforce, composed of all relevant Departments of State and other bodies such as representatives of local authorities and the Irish Red Cross, was established to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: There are a wide variety of Central Government funding streams to local authorities, with transfers coming from a wide range of Departments and Offices, not solely from my Department, for a variety of purposes. Some streams of funding are delivered directly from funding departments to local authorities, while others are routed through departmental agencies. Some elements of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (3 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Oct 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In May 2016, the Government designated Poolbeg West as a Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) because of its potential to deliver a large proportion of the extra homes needed in the centre of Dublin. The next step in realising the potential of the SDZ was the publication for consultation by Dublin City Council of a detailed planning scheme for the area.  The...