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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am currently considering additional documentation that I received earlier this year from the Deputy on this matter and I will write to him in due course to advise of the outcome and my decision in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: `I am not opposed to there being an obligation on short-term letting platforms and letting agents to ensure all properties are compliant with new planning regulations. However, as the Deputy is well aware, responsibility for tourism rests with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. My responsibility insofar as housing and planning matters are concerned is to ensure that our housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My role, as Minister, in relation to the planning system is primarily to provide and update the legislative and policy guidance framework. The legislative framework comprises the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, (the Act) and the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended. With regards to policy guidance, my Department has issued a large number of planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department received a revised Workforce Plan from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) for approval, in anticipation of the new residential tenancy provisions which were in development at the time. As is the practice, my Department has been engaging with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) to agree the proposed organisation structure. This work has progressed well so...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes a monthly report on homelessness. The monthly report is based on data provided by housing authorities on a regional basis and produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS). The report captures details of individuals utilising State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. The most recent report...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Credit Union Lending (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Programme for a Partnership Government recognises the potential role that credit unions can play in housing finance and supported the efforts of the Registrar of Credit Unions at the Central Bank to gradually lift current lending restrictions as appropriate, including for housing. Credit Union bodies have set out proposed means by which funding could be provided by Credit Unions to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: As set out in the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness, fixing the Irish housing market and rebuilding the capacity to deliver social and affordable housing across the country requires a multi-faceted approach, which address both the short term immediate needs of families and individuals whilst simultaneously delivering long term solutions. This flexible and responsive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Every local authority has prepared a Vacant Homes Action Plan for their administrative area. In August 2017, I requested all local authorities to designate vacant home officers to co-ordinate local actions to address vacancy and also to undertake local vacancy surveys in order to identify, through their Vacant Homes Action Plans, priority "vacancy hot-spot areas" and properties that can be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 61 and 63 together. I meet regularly with the Chief Executives of all the local authorities, including those from Cavan and Monaghan, in relation to the advancement of social housing in line with Rebuilding Ireland. I most recently met the Chief Executives in September 2019, and that followed a Housing Summit I held with them in February 2019. Further to my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is currently engaging with Approved Housing Body (AHB) sector representative bodies and examining, in detail, proposals which were presented by those bodies, as a possible means to achieve reclassification. In this regard, my Department met with the Irish Council for Social Housing on 16 October 2019 and is scheduled to meet with the Housing Alliance in the coming weeks. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The delivery of social housing homes by local authorities across the country, in collaboration with Approved Housing Bodies, is a key priority for this Government. Since the launch of Rebuilding Ireland in 2016, local authorities have delivered more than 23,000 (23,768) new social housing homes, through a combination of build, acquisition and lease mechanisms, representing more than 47% of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Over the course of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan, the Government is committed to meeting the housing needs of over 138,000 households. The implementation of Rebuilding Ireland is well underway and making significant progress. Annual delivery targets were exceeded in 2017 and again in 2018. By end Quarter 2 2019, over 84,000 additional social housing homes had already been provided...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government has committed to adding 50,000 new social housing homes to the social housing stock, by end 2021, through build, acquisition and leasing programmes. This is in addition to supporting 88,000 new families and individuals into homes through the Housing Assistance Payment and Rental Accommodation Schemes. In terms of social housing, the priority in Rebuilding Ireland is to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 68 and 1121 together. There are a number of variables involved in estimating the cost of providing social housing units, such as the form of delivery, size of unit, land, funding, etc. In terms of construction and 'all-in' costs, the averages as sought for the various sized units, based on full capital costs, are set out in the tables below. These are shown in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: State Funding provided to Irish Water over the past 5 years is set out in following table: Year 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total €m (to nearest) 900 495 836 1,200 1,100 4,531 The Irish Water Strategic Funding Plan 2019-2024 sets out Irish Water’s...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Efficiency (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has operated an Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme for local authority social housing since 2013, under which over 70,700 social homes have been insulated to date with funding support from the exchequer of some €139 million. The budget for this programme in 2019 is €25m. I am pleased to say support for this important programme will continue in 2020,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Efficiency (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has operated an Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme for local authority social housing since 2013, under which over 70,700 social homes have been insulated to date with funding support from the exchequer of some €139 million. The budget for this programme in 2019 is €25 million. Under the scheme to date Wicklow County Council have retrofitted over 1,900 units...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the EU’s Water Framework Directive my Department has a lead role in developing and implementing policies to protect our water. Ireland’s River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) 2018-2021, available on www.housing.gov.ie, outlines the measures the Government and other sectors are taking to improve water quality in Ireland’s groundwater, rivers, lakes, estuarine and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 housing authorities in addressing homelessness at the local level. Monthly homelessness data reports are produced by housing authorities using the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS), the single integrated...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In order to further assist homeless households in exiting emergency accommodation all local authorities have, since January 2018, been provided with the option to pay deposits and advance rental payments for any households in emergency homeless accommodation, or who are at immediate risk of entering emergency accommodation, in order to secure accommodation via the HAP Scheme. The HAP Place...