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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (21 Sep 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 Provision (21 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: As I have previously signalled, the issue of housing affordability is being examined by my Department, in consultation with local authorities and the Housing Agency, in the context of the review of Rebuilding Ireland. I expect this work to be concluded in the coming weeks and I will be considering the potential role of new initiatives in relation...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The numbers of private vehicles (excluding vintage vehicles) taxed at 31 August 2017 and which were first licensed prior to July 2008 are set out below: Year of  Registration Number Prior to 2000 40,857 2000 37,482 2001 36,994 2002 52,045 2003 67,828 2004 91,390 2005 121,597 2006 145,243 2007 166,691 Jan to July 2008 136,005 Total 896,132

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Rebuilding Ireland 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 period to 2021. This level of national funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (21 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In June 2017, the European Investment Bank agreed a framework loan arrangement of €160 million to provide financing for the three project bundles under the Social Housing PPP Programme.  The EIB will work with the preferred bidder, when selected, for each project bundle in respect of the provision of loan finance to support delivery of this important social...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In the context, it is absolutely relevant in how the Deputy raises those names.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is trying to impugn their good name.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: Dáil Éireann declines to give the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017 a second reading and instead, taking account of previous Government decisions to have the broader recommendations in the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution (i.e. that the...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: This year it will be more than €100 million and next year it will be more than that. It is important that we commit our resources in this way. It should not be forgotten that every working day of the week, 80 new households will be supported in tenancies through social housing supports. This means 21,000 new households this year will be supported by taxpayers' money. It is right...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 747 and 748 together. In accordance with the Nitrates Directive, Ireland’s Nitrates Action Programme is due for review this year.Negotiations with the European Commission are ongoing with a view to having a revised Nitrates Action Programme in place by the end of 2017. As part of the review, a full public consultation process was undertaken and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Mortgage to Rent scheme introduced in 2012 is targeted at those households in mortgage arrears who are eligible for social housing support whose mortgage is unsustainable and who have very limited options, if any, to meet their long-term housing needs themselves.  One of the main criteria underpinning the MTR scheme is that it is a social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 particular, the aim is to increase the supply of high quality social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Minimum standards for rental accommodation are prescribed in the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017, made under section 18 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992.  All landlords, including those in receipt of Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), have a legal obligation to ensure that their rented properties comply with these regulations and responsibility for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability assist people in private houses to have necessary adaptations, repairs or improvement works carried out in order to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs.  The suite of grants includes the Housing Aid for Older People, the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability and the Mobility...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 755 and 756 together. Under the terms of the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS), local authorities retain the responsibility to source further accommodation for a household accommodated under RAS, should the dwelling that the household is living in become unavailable through no fault of their own.  It is a matter for local authorities to make every...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: A call for proposals under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund was issued to all local authorities in August 2016. It was open to all local authorities to apply for funding towards the capital cost of the public infrastructure, which when provided, would secure the early delivery of additional affordable housing at considerable scale, with developments in excess of 500 units in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Effective from 1 July 2014, local authorities may vary the rate of Local Property Tax (LPT) in their administrative area for the following year by up to 15% of the basic rate of the tax. Elected members are responsible in law for adoption of the local authority's annual budget, and the power to vary LPT rates has enabled them to directly influence the level of LPT income available to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: On 27 April 2017, my Department published the Rebuilding Ireland Housing Land Map, which can be accessed at the following link: . The map is the result of the collation of data by my Department from local authorities, the Housing Agency, and other State and semi-State bodies. The data sets released to date include details of over 700 local authority and Housing Agency...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: There are currently 5 persons on secondment from local authorities as set out in the following table: Local Authority Number of Staff Business Unit Length of Secondment Galway County Council 1 Housing Delivery Office September 2016 to date Fingal County Council 1 Forward Planning March 2016 to date Dublin City Council 1 Fire Services and Emergency Management Directorate January...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (20 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of social housing properties constructed, purchased and leased by local authorities and approved housing bodies, for letting to those on their social housing waiting lists, are published on my Department’s website at the following link: . Information is currently being finalised in respect of quarter one of 2017 and will be published shortly, with...