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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 296, 310 and 311 together. The Programme for Government sets out a commitment to examine defects in housing, having regard to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing’s report Safe as Houses?,and to assist owners of latent defect properties by identifying options for those impacted by defects, to access low-cost, long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 297 and 308 together. Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes an average of 10,000 new build social homes each year in the period to 2030. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Social housing tenancies are typically governed by the tenancy agreement between the social housing tenant and the relevant local authority. The terms of such agreements are matters for each individual local authority as part of their day-to-day management of the social housing system. While there is no legislative provision to deal with such matters, generally joint tenancies can be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Domestic Violence (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: A barring order granted under the Domestic Violence Act 2018 requires the person accused of abusive behaviour, who can be either in an intimate relationship or a non-dependent child of the victim, to leave the home and prohibits that person from entering the home. Local authorities can remove a perpetrator of domestic violence from a tenancy agreement if they are subject to a barring...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Local Authority Home Loan is a Government backed mortgage scheme for those on modest or low incomes who cannot get sufficient funding from commercial banks to purchase or build a home. It has been available nationwide from local authorities since 4 January 2022 for first-time buyers and fresh start applicants. The loan can be used both for new and second-hand properties, or to self-build....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The right of local authorities to set and collect rents on their dwellings is laid down in section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. The making or amending of rent schemes, including raising or reducing the rent charged to tenants is an executive function and my department has no role in this regard. Generally, the majority of the revenue raised by local authorities through the charging of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department’s Multi-annual Rural Water Programme, through Exchequer funding, delivers improvements to water services in areas of rural Ireland where there are no public water services. A working group – the Rural Water Working Group – is considering the composition of the measures for inclusion for funding under the upcoming multi-annual programme and I expect to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Housing for All, I have set ambitious social housing delivery targets for each local authority out to 2026. The following are the targets for the social housing construction programmes for those years for Tipperary County Council: 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 230 155 158 170 174 Another action of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Local Authority Home Loan is a Government-backed mortgage for those on modest or low incomes who cannot get sufficient funding from commercial banks to purchase or build a home. It has been available nationwide from local authorities since 4 January 2022 for first-time buyers and fresh start applicants. The loan can be used both for new and second-hand properties, or to self-build. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I understand that representatives of Wexford County Council have previously met with the organisation involved with these particular apartments in New Ross. It is important that Councils actively monitor and assess vacancy locally, both within their own housing stock and that of Approved Housing Bodies. My Department is focused on ensuring that existing housing stock is utilised to its...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Sections 29 and 30 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021, property owners can apply for designation of properties as Cost Rental dwellings. This is undertaken on an opt-in basis whereby any owner of a property (public or private) must apply to the Minister if they wish to formally designate their property as a ‘cost rental dwelling’ this being for a minimum designation period...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is set out in the table below. The Law Reform Commission, in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975, has published a revised version of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, which is an administrative consolidation of that Act. This can be found at revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/2004/act/27/revised/en/html Planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of local authorities in addressing homelessness at a local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless accommodation and related services rests with individual local authorities. While responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: More than half of local authorities currently operate a Choice Based Letting system. While several offer paper-based systems, others offer both paper-based and online services. Currently, 14 local authorities use an online system, see table below: Clare Cork City Cork County Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Fingal ...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Was that the Deputy's first ever protest? I would have thought so.

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: That is another story, which I will not go into on the floor of the Dáil.

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Indeed. That is a matter of opinion. I have appointed a research team from University College Cork, UCC, to consider the findings of a recently conducted public survey to help gather the evidence base needed to identify bathers' behaviour and investigate the feasibility of real-time monitoring. That is what I would really like to get to. People could make up their own minds then. If...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Gabhaim buíochas le Teachta Bacik as ucht an mBille seo. Ní bheidh an Rialtas ag cur i gcoinne an Bhille seo. Ba cheart go mbeadh an Teachta cinnte go mbeimid ag obair le chéile ar an gceist thábhachtach seo. I am grateful to the Deputy for introducing the Bill. I assure her we will not oppose it but work with her on it. I will constructively outline some of the areas...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the representatives from SOS Dublin Bay and others from right across the bay. I have had the pleasure of engaging with them and that is why I wanted to take this Bill myself. I very much appreciate the work of Deputy Bacik and her commitment. We can work together. There are some aspects of the Bill that might be conflicting, and I will outline those. I am not in any way raising...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (8 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: More than half of local authorities currently operate a Choice Based Letting system. While several offer paper-based systems, others offer both paper-based and online services. Currently, 14 local authorities use an online system including Clare, Cork City, Cork County, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin, Galway City, Galway County, Kildare, Leitirm, Louth, Meath,...