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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitment given in the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness, a review of the operation of the first 12 months of the Tenant Purchase (Incremental) Scheme has been recently finalised and a full report has been prepared setting out findings and recommendations. I intend to bring a comprehensive package of social housing reform measures...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: To reiterate, what will be built is more than 800 homes. Fifty per cent of those homes will be for social and affordable housing but, crucially, we will have a mix of all types of housing across this site. The financial arrangements are a matter for Dublin City Council but we have put the resources in place to support the building of those homes. Yet again, the Deputy's ideology is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: -----of the delivery of homes for people in this city, which are badly needed.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: That is what we are trying to do.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. It is a very serious issue but Part VIII of the Planning and Development Act is very strong on this area. We had very lax regulation around quarrying development for a number of years. We moved to make changes some years ago. New ministerial guidance was issued. New planning guidance was issued also. An opportunity was given to the industry to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I cannot support that Bill because it is bad legislation. First, it removes the social housing obligation from private developers-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: -----which is a disgrace, and in doing so it further incentivises build-to-rent housing, which is the opposite of what the Deputy intends the Bill to do. We cannot support that Bill. It will do nothing for affordability.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: So Fianna Fáil supports the broadband plan.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021.  This funding will provide for infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 affordable homes on local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested in respect of my Department is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.  The details requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department are a matter for the individual bodies concerned. Arrangements have been put in place by each Agency to facilitate the provision of information by State Bodies directly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Meteorological Services (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Met Éireann operates two weather radars in Ireland, one at Dublin Airport and one at Shannon Airport. This radar network provides real-time rainfall information for Ireland. The radar at Shannon Airport has had high availability for 2018 and much of 2019, with only short outages, generally for routine maintenance and scheduled during dry weather. However, there have been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is currently supporting local authorities in undertaking an ambitious programme of insulation retrofitting for their housing stock, which commenced in 2013. The aim of the Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme is the improvement of energy efficiency and comfort levels in local authority homes, benefitting those at risk of fuel poverty and making a significant...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A lot of history was mentioned in the Chamber but we do not need to go back to the 1920s or 1930s. We can go back to very recent history and see the legacy of Fianna Fáil in the housing sector and how it destroyed it, outsourced the provision of social housing to the private sector and managed to destroy the private housing sector in its entirety. We are recoiling from that. ...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: That has not been the practice on Questions on Promised Legislation to date.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. It is very regrettable that the Social Democrats have decided to use valuable Dáil time-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy mentioned the motion, so I think that gives me the right to mention it as well. It is very regrettable that they are using their Dáil time for this stunt. I do not recall ever the Social Democrats bringing forward any legislation to address the housing challenge we face. I do not remember either of its Deputies attending the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am not talking about what the Deputy thinks she knows.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am talking about the facts and figures that come from each of the local authorities in Dublin, for which I am responsible. I am also talking about the 800 to 900 families who have exited emergency accommodation and have gone into homes so far this year. Roughly a third of those have gone into new social housing and the other two thirds have gone into the private rental sector. That is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: That is our commitment to social housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: This is a democratic Chamber.