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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Finance Act 2021 introduced Part, 22A Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT), into the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. The RZLT is a land activation measure identified in Housing for All and is aimed at increasing housing supply by prompting residential development by landowners, of land that is zoned for residential or mixed-use (including residential) purposes in a development plan or local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: An Bord Pleanála (the Board) is the national independent statutory body with responsibility for the determination of planning appeals and direct applications for strategic infrastructure and other developments under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and certain other Acts. Thetotal number of Board members currently serving in An Bord Pleanála is 14, with a further...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The flexibility of Housing Assistance Programme (HAP) as a social housing support is one of the scheme's key characteristics and was one of the primary benefits envisaged at the outset of the scheme. With this in mind, my Department issued circulars relating to inter-authority movement in 2017 and 2019, with the aim of facilitating movement of HAP households from one local authority area to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The most recently published summary for all counties, conducted in November 2022, is available at: www.gov.ie/en/collection/62486-summary-of-social-housing-ass essments/. My Department publishes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Under the provisions of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (the Act), each local authority maintains a Vacant Sites Register in respect of their functional area with sites listed in such registers being liable to the vacant site levy, also introduced under the provisions of the Act. As provided for under the Act, the register in respect of each local authority is available for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 354 and 355 together. The draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 was published in January and the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has undertaken a significant pre-legislative scrutiny process on the draft Bill. Their report contains more than 150 recommendations, which I am considering carefully. My Department continues...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is set out in the table below. Minister Adviser Contact Details Minister Darragh O'Brien Kevin Dillon Email - kevin.dillon@housing.gov.ie Tel - 01 8882238 Minister Darragh O'Brien Ciara Shaughnessy Email - ciara.shaughnessy@housing.gov.ie Tel - 01 8882825 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government agreed on 7 March that the ‘Winter Emergency Period’ under the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Act 2022 would come to an end on 31 March 2023, with deferred tenancy terminations taking effect over a staggered period from 1 April to 18 June 2023 as planned and legislated for under that Act. In advance of this, I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Data on commencement of residential dwellings are published monthly on my Department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/a5cb1-construction-activity-starts /. Data on dwelling completions is published quarterly on the Central Statistics Office's website at the following link: www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ndc/newdwellingco mpletionsq12023/data/. Housing for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Total Gross Allocations provided by my Department to the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in the years 2018-2022 are set out in the table at the link. The NPWS support the planning process as a statutory consultee including in relation to the renewable sector, however there is not a dedicated budget allocated for this in respect of renewable energy and therefore it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Uisce Éireann has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. The scope, prioritisation and progression of individual projects – including the taking in charge of group water schemes - is a matter for Uisce Éireann and is approved through its internal governance structures. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Consultations (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I refer to the reply to Question No. 344 of 4 July 2023 which outlines the position on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 387 and 388 together. As provided for in the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019, the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority (AHBRA) was formally established on 1 February 2021. On 1 January 2022 responsibility for the register of AHBs, previously managed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, was transferred...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Housing Agency Acquisition (HAA) Fund of €70 million was established with effect from the 1 January 2017 with the objective of acquiring vacant property portfolios of financial institutions that could then be sold onto AHBs and used for social housing. The target for the HAA fund was to acquire 1,600 units over a four year period to 2020 with this target subsequently extended out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I can confirm that my Department is in the final stages of completing comprehensive Framework documentation to support the application process for the upcoming Multi-annual Rural Water Programme. Extensive engagement with stakeholders, including a Rural Water Working Group made up of key stakeholders in the Sector, was a valuable and necessary requirement to allow my Department finalise this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Framework for Future Delivery of Water Services (June 2022) was developed following a comprehensive process of engagement with unions under the aegis of the Workplace Relations Commission and enables the integration of public water services into Uisce Éireann's organisational structure. The Framework provides that local authority water services staff have the option to transfer...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The identification of new social housing opportunities in their areas of operation and the advancement of such projects, are matters that are directly managed by our local authorities. I understand that in the case of projects in the Carrigart area being considered by Donegal County Council, that they have a site in the locality which they had hoped to develop however, the original...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 (the Bill), published in January 2023, is the culmination of a fifteen-month review of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), led by the Office of the Attorney General. The Bill proposes to concolidate, reform and streamline more than two decades of planning legislation into a single piece of legislation which is more...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department is supporting local authorities in the delivery of their social housing targets under Housing For All through a range of different initiatives and schemes, including the construction of social homes on their own lands, construction delivery in conjunction with approved housing bodies and also, local authorities are working in partnership with private developers to deliver social...