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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of Covid-19 and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease, the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 provided for a temporary moratorium on tenancy terminations, other than in exceptional and limited cases during the emergency period...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I am very much aware of the issue that Deputy Ó Laoghaire has raised. The Ballincollig-Carrigaline Local Electoral Area (LEA) was designated a Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) on 27 January 2017 under section 24 of the Residential Tenancies Acts (2004-2021). New Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts were signed into law on 31 January 2019 for Cork City and County (which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Applications for social housing support are assessed by the relevant local authority, in accordance with the eligibility and need criteria set down in section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Social Housing Assessment Regulations. The Regulations prescribe maximum net income limits for each local authority, in different bands according to the area...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is responsible for meeting the immediate and short-term accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from the conflict in Ukraine. Meanwhile, my Department is focusing on the medium and long-term accommodation challenges and is leading cross-government efforts through a Housing Taskforce established by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Programme for Government commits to ensuring that Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) levels are adequate to support vulnerable households, while we increase the supply of social housing. Maximum rent limits for HAP were set for each housing authority area in 2016, in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection (DSP). In reviewing the rent limits, my Department worked closely with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Households wishing to obtain social housing support from a local authority or an approved housing body (AHB) must first apply to the relevant local authority for a social housing assessment. Where the household is deemed qualified for support, it is placed on the housing authority’s waiting list and offers of suitable accommodation are made in accordance with the authority’s...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 75, 77, 78 and 81 together. Housing for All – A New Housing Plan for Ireland was published in September 2021 and, as part of a broad suite of social housing reforms, committed to reviewing income eligibility for social housing. The review, which examined, inter alia, the efficiency of the current banding model and income limits applicable to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The detailed advancement of housing and other works under the Cork North West Quarter Regeneration (CNWQR) programme is a matter, in the first instance, for Cork City Council. The Cork City Northwest Regeneration Masterplan & Implementation Report was published in 2011. The strategy outlined a departure from previous policy, with a proposal to carry out wholesale demolition of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is responsible for meeting the immediate and short-term accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from the conflict in Ukraine. Meanwhile, my Department is focusing on the medium and long-term accommodation challenges and is leading cross-government efforts through a Housing Taskforce established by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Since 2014, Exchequer funding has also been provided through my Department's Voids...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA).  The most recently published summary for all counties, conducted in November 2021, is available at: www.gov.ie/en/publication/f6119-summary-of-social-housing-as sessments-2021-key-findings/

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: On 31 March 2022, my colleague, Heather Humphreys TD, Minister for Rural and Community Development, and I wrote to the chief executives of the local authorities welcoming the establishment of Community Response Forums in every local authority area to coordinate the community-led response in the provision of assistance and support to those arriving into our communities having fled the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Two sets of Regulations which will underpin the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme, made under the provisions of the Affordable Housing Act 2021, were signed by the Minister and came into effect on 13 April 2022. Notice was published in Iris Oifigiúil on 19 March, and the text of the regulations is available on the Irish Statute Book website maintained by the Office of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Act 2021 introduced measures in July 2021 to extend the operation of Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs) until the end of 2024. The designation of all existing RPZs has also been extended until 31 December 2024. The Act provides that rent reviews outside of RPZs can, until 2025, occur no more frequently than bi-annually. This provides rent certainty for tenants...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is responsible for the Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) and the data is freely available at: www.cso.ie/en/statistics/prices/residentialpropertypriceinde x/. Similarly, the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) publishes the quarterly Rent Index report which is based on data from RTB tenancy registration records and is independently...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Delivery of affordable housing, in accordance with the schemes set out in the Affordable Housing Act, 2021 and the funding being made available, will be underpinned by local authorities' Housing Delivery Action Plans. Local authorities submitted their Plans to me in December 2021.  Preparation of the Plans allowed each local authority to assess the level of demand...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is responsible for meeting the immediate and short-term accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from the conflict in Ukraine. As part of a whole-of-government response, DCEDIY, in close cooperation with local government, is securing accommodation for arrivals through: - hotels, guest houses and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Land Development Agency’s (LDA) Project Tosaigh is a market engagement initiative to unlock land with full planning permission that is not being developed by private sector owners due to financing and other constraints and use it to accelerate the supply of affordable housing.  It allows the LDA to supplement the State lands it is already working on and accelerate the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Affordable Housing Act 2021 established a basis for four new affordable housing measures. These measures deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to put affordability at the heart of the housing system and prioritise the increased supply of affordable homes through (1) delivering affordable purchase homes on Local Authority lands, (2) the introduction of a new form of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 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. The loan can be used both for new and second-hand properties, or to self-build. It is the successor to the Rebuilding Ireland Home...