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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 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. Local authorities also have a legal obligation to ensure that all of their tenanted properties...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Since 2013, Exchequer funding has been provided through my Department's Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme (EERP) to support local authorities with the retrofit of local authority owned homes requiring insulation and energy upgrade works. Since the programme commenced in 2013 over 75,000 homes have been retrofitted with a total exchequer spend of €184 million under the scheme. In...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 479, 507 and 514 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 75 of 5 May 2022 which sets out the position in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 482 and 484 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 97 of 1 June 2022. Housing for All (published in September 2021) provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030 with the overall objective that every citizen in the State should have access to good quality homes through a steady supply of housing in the right locations, with economic, social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is not available in my Department. Local authorities are best placed to identify and collate information on vacant properties returned to residential use in their administrative area. The vacanthomes.ie website has been developed by Mayo County Council on behalf of the local government sector to assist local authorities in recording levels of vacancy.  The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The business of my Department is conducted through 10 Divisions. Full details of the Divisions and the units within them are available at: . Details of the bodies that operate under the aegis of my Department are set out in the attached table. Bodies under the aegis of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage An Bord Pleanála ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The capital expenditure provision for my Department in 2022 as set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2022 published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) and available at is €3,403m. The breakdown of this capital allocation by Programme is set out below: PROGRAMME 2022 GROSS CAPITAL PROVISION €m Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (14 Jun 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 (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing First recognises that a stable home provides the basis for recovery in other areas. With Housing First, the priority is to support a person who has experienced homelessness into permanent housing as quickly as possible, without any preconditions around addiction or mental health treatment. Then, intensive work continues on these issues once they are housed. Housing First has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 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 2011, as amended. The 2011 Regulations prescribe maximum net income limits for each local authority, in different bands...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Interest Rates (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The requested information is not available within my Department. However, it would be available from the State bodies under the aegis of my Department, and the dedicated e-mail addresses for members of the Oireachtas in respect of each such State body are as set out in tabular form below. State Body Contact E-mail Address An Bord Pleanála ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Local authorities are entirely independent corporate entities having full responsibility under law for the performance of their functions and the discharge of their governance and other responsibilities. Given the corporate independence and diversity of state bodies and agencies and multiplicity of land holdings for a range of different purposes, there isn’t currently one...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: No serving Secretary General from my Department is seconded to another agency or institution. My Department has no role in respect of the careers of former Secretaries General.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Social Housing Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme represents an additional strand of delivery in order to increase the supply of social housing. The current PPP Programme will deliver 1,500 social housing units, spread across three bundles of sites. The Social Housing PPP Programme is being delivered through the ‘availability’-based PPP model. Under this type of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 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: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 498, 505 and 508 together. Under the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme, eligible households source their own accommodation in the private rented sector and the tenancy agreement is between the HAP recipient and their private landlord. The local authority does not have a role in the tenancy. Each local authority has statutory discretion to agree...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Following the publication of Housing for All, I asked local authorities to prepare Housing Delivery Action Plans. In preparing these plans local authorities were asked to assess the level of housing demand with affordability constraint projected for their area based on the Housing Need and Demand Assessment (HNDA) tool and plan their provision accordingly. Local authorities with a strong and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regulatory Bodies (14 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 facilitate the resolution of disputes between landlords and tenants. This matter is an operational one for the RTB and my Department does not collect the data sought. However, the Clerk of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 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 (14 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Under the Local Authority Home Loan scheme social welfare payments are not generally considered as part of repayment capacity. However, certain long-term State benefit payments may be considered as repayment income only where the main income source is of an earned nature (i.e., more than 50% of the income that forms the full Home Loan application is from a source other than State benefits...