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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department has received a Stage 3 (Pre-tender Approval) submission on this project under the Capital Assistance Scheme, which is currently being examined and a response is expected to issue to Limerick City and County Council imminently.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Funding of €68.5 million under the National Development Plan has been allocated for the period 2021-2025 for legacy water services issues in relation to lead pipe remediation and the Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme (DPI). My Department is operating a Multi-annual DPI Programme to provide funding for the progressive resolution of housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the scheme. The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015 governing the scheme apply to all local authorities and provide inter alia that the sale of a property to the purchaser does not imply any warranty on the part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department administers a number of funding schemes to support local authority delivery of social housing. Each scheme, depending on its objectives and delivery mechanism, has a process in place whereby local authorities secure approval for funding for social housing projects. The overall pre-construction process for local authority capital-funded, social housing build projects involves...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) and the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) are forms of social housing support for people who have a long-term housing need.  Exchequer expenditure on the schemes in 2021, is set out in the following table: Year SHCEP HAP RAS ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: At the end of 2021, 100,077 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were 61,907 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 33,400 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by the scheme. Each local authority has statutory discretion to agree to a HAP payment up to 20% above the prescribed maximum rent limit to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 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 for first-time buyers and fresh start applicants. The loan can be used both for new and second-hand properties, or to self-build. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not maintain a central register of heritage ships or boats owned by local authorities and I, as Minister have no function in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Affordable Housing Act 2021 lays the foundations for two affordable purchase schemes - Part 2 of the Act details the provisions for the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme and Part 4 of the Act provides for the Minister to establish the First Home Scheme. The Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme will see new homes made available by the Local Authority for affordable purchase....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Programme for Government provides for a package of social housing reforms, including a social housing passport to allow households move from one local authority waiting list to another. As per my reply to Question No. 531 of 19 January 2022, there is already a degree of flexibility regarding waiting lists. The four Dublin local authorities have arrangements allowing social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fuel Poverty (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: This technology is consistent with the Government’s Climate Action Plan, and the Programme for Government which supports the ambitious plan to deliver 70% of Ireland’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030. It also supports the work of my Department and other Government agencies and Departments who are focused on helping to address fuel poverty. I understand this technology...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 (as amended) provide that households may apply for support to one local authority only. Usually, this will be the local authority for the area in which the household normally resides or with which the household has a local connection. Local authorities may also, at their discretion, assess households with no link to the area for support. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 195 and 196 together. My Department does not collate data of the type referred to in the Question.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: 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 the delivery of 90,000 social homes by 2030. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12 billion in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5 billion in funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Under the Government's Housing for All strategy, 10,000 Cost Rental homes will be delivered from 2021 to 2026 by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), Local Authorities and the Land Development Agency (LDA).  A Housing Delivery Action Plan prepared by each Local Authority will underpin Local Authority delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental homes to 2026. This includes any Local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 199 and 200 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity, including details by individual local authority. This data is available to the end of 2021, and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-hou sing-provision/  My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 May 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 Provision (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The advancement of social housing on sites owned by Kildare County Council is a matter in the first place for the Council; it is a matter for the Council to determine what housing delivery is initiated, including the nature, scale and timing of the housing. At the request of Kildare County Council, my Department has recently confirmed funding approval for the Council to work with Cluid...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The First Home Scheme will support eligible applicants to purchase new homes in the private market through an equity share model, similar to that used in the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme. The Scheme will be restricted to new homes within regional price ceilings, in order for resources to be generally targeted at supporting purchases in the lower region (sub-median) of the...