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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mayoral Election (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Electoral Reform Act 2022, enacted on 25 July, delivers the legislative underpinning for a range of significant electoral reforms set out in the “Programme for Government – Our Shared Future”. Provisions commenced on 13 October under S.I. No. 512 of 2022, included those provisions necessary for the introduction of the new processes in relation to electoral...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The First Home Scheme, launched on 7 July 2022, supports first-time buyers in purchasing new houses and apartments in the private market through the use of an equity share model. Full details of the First Home Scheme are available at: www.firsthomescheme.ie The Scheme is overseen and managed by the First Home Scheme Ireland Designated Activity Company (First Home DAC), on behalf of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 415 and 416 together. Under the vacant site levy provisions in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (the Act), planning authorities were required to establish a register of vacant sites in their functional areas, beginning on 1 January 2017. The Act empowered planning authorities to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market valuation of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Local authorities are required to submit an annual return to my Department providing information on the operation of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 in their functional areas. The return from the local authority referred to in respect of 2022 was received in my Department on 24 March 2023. The return noted that notices or demands were issued by the Council under the Act in respect of 250...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 418, 419 and 420 together. My Department publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR), which provides details of social housing developments that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of design and tender processes. The most recent CSR (Quarter 4 2022) and previous reports are available at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Media (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested relating to social media posting in Irish is being compiled and will be forwarded in accordance with Standing Orders. The information requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the individual bodies concerned.? Arrangements have been put in place by each Agency to facilitate the provision of information directly to members of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Equality Issues (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department is strongly committed to equality of opportunity for all in terms of its recruitment and employment practices. The provision of reasonable accommodations is a key element in supporting new staff with a disability and existing staff who acquire a disability. In my Department the provision of reasonable accommodations required to support a staff member with a disability is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of fire station premises, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Services Act, 1981. My Department supports fire authorities through setting general policy and progressing legislation,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tourism Policy (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), there is no specific preclusion to the development by guesthouse owners of pods as additional bedrooms to cater for tourism. All development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. If not exempt, it will therefore be a matter for the local planning authority to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: A Certificate of Compliance on Completion, supplied by the Assigned Certifier and Builder, certifies that the building or works have been carried out in accordance with the Building Regulations. Article 20F of the Building Control Regulations provides that a Certificate of Compliance on Completion shall be submitted to a Building Control Authority and be included on the register before...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: On 25 April 2023, the Government approved additional measures under the Housing for All Action Plan to incentivise the activation of increased housing supply and help reduce housing construction costs, including the introduction of temporary time-limited arrangements for the waiving of local authority “section 48” development contributions and the refunding of Uisce Éireann...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All targets the delivery of a total of 18,000 Cost Rental homes over the period to 2030 and significant funding is made available to support provision by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), local authorities and by the Land Development Agency (LDA). Local authorities have been encouraged to deliver Cost Rental homes directly by taking advantage of increased grant funding now...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Pathway 4 of Housing for All sets out a blueprint to address vacancy and make efficient use of our existing housing stock.  The Croí Cónaithe Towns Fund is a key initiative which underpins the policy objectives set out in Pathway Four of Housing for All. In July 2022 the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant was launched as part of the Croí Cónaithe Towns Fund. The...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Under electoral law, in order to be able to vote at elections in Ireland, a person's name must be entered in the register of electors for a constituency in the State in which the person ordinarily resides. With some exceptions (mainly postal and special voters) all persons must attend in person to vote at their local polling station. Subject to a limited number of exceptions, Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (11 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Obtaining appropriate professional and legal advice continues to form part of the due diligence that a person should undertake when considering the purchase of a property.   Separate to this, work is underway in my Department to draft legislation to establish supports for the remediation of fire safety, structural safety and water ingress defects in purpose-built apartment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Question Heading for question(s) 200 (11 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Electoral Commission - An Coimisiún Toghcháin - was established on 9 February 2023 by way of the Electoral Reform Act 2022 (Establishment Day) Order 2023 and is now operational. In this regard, section 30(3) of Electoral Reform Act provides that an Coimisiún shall be independent in the performance of its functions, which include, among other matters, the review of...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 201 and 203 together. While I have made a wide range of funding and development options available to local authorities, it is they who are responsible for the identification of the social housing need in their areas and for the development of appropriate responses to the need identified. The approach to providing social housing by the local...