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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The website Stateboards.ie sets out various boards under each Department and can be found at the following link:   membership.stateboards.per.gov.ie/ More specifically, the details of each board under my Department's aegis along with details of the board and information on each board member can be found at the link below: membership.stateboards.per.gov.ie/department/Department%20of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (28 Jun 2022)

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 Acts 1981 and 2003. My Department supports fire authorities through setting general policy, providing the legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not hold the information requested. Under Section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he or she is responsible. The information should be available from each local authority.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 259 and 260 together. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2021 to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants and as such, the implementation of the new tenancy management system is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department published the terms of reference (attached) for the Report into the management of conflicts of interest and relevant disclosures by the Deputy Chairperson of An Bord Pleanála in relation to certain Decisions of that Board on the 12th of May 2022. In accordance with the terms of reference, Remy Farrell, Senior Counsel, was requested to provide a report to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flexible Work Practices (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: There were 1,522 staff employed in my Department at the end of May 2022.  The vast majority of staff worked remotely in line with COVID-19 restrictions since end of March 2020, attending the workplace only for essential business purposes. Since the Government announced the lifting of restrictions in September 2021 to allow for a phased return to physical attendance in the workplace,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Limerick City and County Council provide a highly effective transactional-shared service on behalf of all local authorities with Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) tenants. The HAP Shared Services Centre (HAP SSC) manages all HAP related rental transactions for the tenant, local authority and landlord. The HAP SSC do not change any data in respect of a HAP tenancy account. For a change to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The allocation of homes under the Local Authority Affordable Housing Scheme is laid out in Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021, and accompanying Regulations. The Regulations can be found at the following link: www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2022/si/184/made/en/p rint.  Homes to be made available under the scheme may vary by size, price, location, and other factors. Each...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Housing for All Strategy delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to step up housing supply and put affordability at the heart of the housing system, with an ambitious target of 300,000 homes over the next decade for social, affordable and cost rental, private rental and private ownership housing. 54,000 affordable home interventions will be delivered between now and 2030 to be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 267 and 282 together. Tenants in the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme are required to sign a rent contribution agreement to pay a weekly rental contribution to the relevant local authority, in line with the local authority’s differential rent scheme. As set out in the rent contribution agreement, this weekly rental contribution must be paid by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not provide funding to undertake arterial drainage works in relation to the Arterial Drainage Act 1945. Information in relation to arterial drainage works by local authorities is not held by my Department and I, as Minister have no function in this regard. The Arterial Drainage Act 1945 is a matter the Office of Public Works under the aegis of the Department for Public...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department provides exchequer funding to local authorities to support the Housing Adaptation Grants for People with a Disability which are available to a person with a physical, sensory, mental health or intellectual disability. These grant schemes assist in the carrying out of works to make accommodation more suitable for these persons needs including access ramps, adaptations to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels in accordance with Section 7 of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013. This includes operational responsibility for the first fix free scheme for addressing occuring within the curtilage of a customers property. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Housing for All strategy delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to step up housing supply and put affordability at the heart of the housing system, with an ambitious target of 300,000 homes over the next decade for social, affordable and cost rental, private rental and private ownership housing. It will see 54,000 affordable home interventions which includes 36,000...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Data in relation to housing commencements, broken down by Local Authority area, is published by my Department on a monthly basis and can be accessed via the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/a5cb1-construction-activity-starts / Data in relation to new dwelling completions is published by the CSO on a quarterly basis and can be accessed via the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (28 Jun 2022)

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 Acts 1981 and 2003. My Department supports fire authorities through setting general policy, providing the legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: As you will be aware, the site at St Ita’s, Portrane, is very extensive and accommodates many protected structures and attractive buildings in an extensive demesne type landscape. I understand that a feasibility study of this site was completed jointly by Fingal County Council and the HSE in November 2013, to determine the optimal future sustainable use of this complex and to consider...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department published the terms of reference (attached) for the Report into the management of conflicts of interest and relevant disclosures by the Deputy Chairperson of An Bord Pleanála in relation to certain Decisions of that Board on the 12th of May 2022. In accordance with the terms of reference, Remy Farrell, Senior Counsel, was requested to provide a report to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Data in relation to new dwelling completions is published by the CSO on a quarterly basis and can be accessed via the following link: www.cso.ie/en/statistics/construction/newdwellingcompletions / 5,669 new homes were added to the national housing stock in Q1 2022. This represents a 44.5% increase from 3,923 completions in Q1 2021 (when there were COVID-19 restrictions in place) and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 288 and 300 together. The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals. At the end of 2021, over 100,000 HAP tenancies had been set up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 61,900 households actively in receipt of HAP support. Of these, 463 were in Cavan and 566 were in Monaghan....