Results 11,701-11,720 of 26,864 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: In May Government granted approval to proceed with the construction of 597 homes, including 200 social housing, 306 cost rental and 91 affordable purchase homes at Shanganagh Castle, the first such development in the State. This flagship project is intended to act as a pathfinder for other mixed tenure schemes which are key to delivering public housing on public land. It is...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) are making an important contribution to social housing delivery, as envisaged under the Housing for All Plan. The Government is committed to increasing social housing delivery and plans to deliver more than 90,000 social homes to 2030. My Department operates a number of funding programmes that assist local authorities to work in partnership with AHBs to...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The Mortgage Allowance scheme provides for an allowance of up to €11,450 payable over a 5 year period, to tenants or tenant purchasers of local authority housing, to assist them to purchase or have a private house built with a mortgage. The current rates are underpinned by the Housing (Mortgage Allowance) Regulations 2001 and have been in place since 1 January 2002. New...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Jun 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (21 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Following Government approval, I shortly intend to introduce the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill, 2022 to the Oireachtas. The purpose of this Bill is to implement and give legislative underpinning to a series of measures to improve and enhance the defective concrete blocks grant scheme as agreed by Government on 30 November...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (21 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 266 and 269 together. I understand the stressful circumstances which the owners and residents of buildings face when defects occur in their homes. The Programme for Government sets out a number of commitments in respect of the important policy area of addressing building defects. These include a commitment to to examine defects in housing, having regard to the...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme was reviewed in 2021 in line with Programme for Government and Housing for All commitments. The amendments, which came into effect on 1st February 2022, include a reduction in the minimum reckonable income required to be eligible under the scheme from €15,000 to €12,500. The time an applicant is required to be in receipt of social...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 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: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The Government, under Housing for All, will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022-2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHB), and with this, to reduce the numbers of social homes delivered through acquisition...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The most recent 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/. The key...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 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 /
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (16 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: In August 2019 the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (IGEES) published a Spending Review Paper 'Analysis of Social Housing Acquisitions'. The objective of the paper was to provide an overview of the acquisition delivery mechanisms, and other related mechanisms, including an analysis of the level of expenditure and social housing output in the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Transport (16 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative 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: Water Supply (16 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: My Departments Multi-annual Rural Water Programme provides capital funding under a number of measures to enable group water schemes to resolve infrastructural deficiencies including their taking in charge by Irish Water. Under the Rural Water Programme an annual subsidy is also payable by local authorities to group water schemes towards their operational and management costs of supplying...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (16 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: My Department has established various structures and supports to oversee affordable housing delivery, and identify and address delivery challenges as they arise. For example, the High Level Affordable Housing Delivery Group draws together the key stakeholders responsible for delivering affordable homes. Its functions include monitoring progress under Housing for All affordable housing...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (16 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 introduced the Rent Predictability Measure to moderate rent increases in those parts of the country where rents are highest and rising fastest. 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 and prohibit any...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (16 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: 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 the RTB. I am aware that some landlord and agent...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (16 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 245 and 246 together. The Civil Service is committed to protecting the dignity and respect of staff across all organisations. My Department operates under the Dignity at Work policy which is the centralised Anti-Bullying, Harassment and Sexual Harassment Policy for all of the Irish civil service. The policy aims to promote respect, dignity, safety and equality...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (15 Jun 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy, published in July 2018, provided a targeted, effective and coordinated approach to identifying and tackling vacancy across Ireland. The range of objectives and actions in the strategy have been pursued in partnership with stakeholders and agencies across the housing sector to address vacancy in our housing stock. The key drivers of these actions are...