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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: No specific instruction or Circular has recently issued from my Department to local authorities regarding social housing provision in rural areas. As housing authorities, local authorities are responsible for the identification of the social housing need in their area and for the development of appropriate responses to the need identified. The approach to providing social housing by the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme enables credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range, where they cannot obtain sufficient mortgage finance from a commercial lender.  As with the previous local authority loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is available to first-time...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced in June 2018 to provide a statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. Regulations in respect of the making of Schemes of Priority were signed on 12 March 2019, and these were issued to local authorities on 22 March 2019.  The purpose of a Scheme of Priority is to set out the affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has been in regular contact with relevant planning authorities regarding the implementation of the new short-term letting legislation, both before and subsequent to its commencement on 1 July 2019.   In order for the new legislation to have the desired effect and achieve its objective of returning much-needed accommodation to the long-term rental market, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 335 and 336 together. My Department has not, either directly or through local authorities or bodies under our aegis, funded any individual projects in the past five years that cost €100 million or more. Neither does it anticipate having any such projects funded either directly or through local authorities over the next five years. ...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for her question. Issues concerning taxation are not compiled by my Department. We have a very ambitious plan for increasing student accommodation, which is well ahead of its targets. It is being rolled out by my Department and the Department of Education and Skills. The difficulty we have with student accommodation is local politicians and local communities objecting...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (16 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015, provide the basis for the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme for existing local authority houses. The Scheme is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme. To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (16 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Department’s approach, based on advice to date, is that the economic functions of the LDA do not give rise to an advantage either to the LDA or other parties under State Aid rules. The General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019 was developed taking account of legal advice in relation to State Aid. The European Commission was informed at the time of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (16 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: On 8 February this year, I announced details of the measures being funded through my Department under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021. Local authorities were subsequently invited to submit their bids for the funding of schemes or projects in their functional areas. An Expert Panel was put in place to support the evaluation process and its membership includes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (16 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Contributing financially towards criminality cannot be condoned in any circumstances, nor should intimidation and anti-social behaviour be tolerated or rewarded in any way. While concerns around alleged intimidation, anti-social behaviour and other criminality in relation to the social housing development concerned were raised with a number of public bodies, including An Garda Siochana...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The review has been concluded and it is now up to me to publish that report and recommendations flowing from it in terms of what I intend to do to improve and reform the fast-track process. As part of that, I am sure there will be time to debate the matter either in the House directly or in committee.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. I am not aware of the project to which he refers. The request may, depending on the size of the capital budget required, have gone to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. I will ask the relevant officials and come back to the Deputy directly.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There are two pieces are coming, one of which relates to marine spatial planning. The latter should come to Cabinet and it will be published very shortly, before a consultation period-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It has come to Cabinet and it will be published very shortly in advance of a consultation period of a number of weeks. The second piece - the planning and development Bill for the marine - has almost been finalised to come to Cabinet. We hope to get that in the next four weeks.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his question. It is true that there is a lot of speculation about the land development agency and what it is going to do. It will be the State developer. It will bring forward public land for the development of social and affordable housing. On the first four sites that will get planning permission, approximately 1,200 homes will be delivered, 800 of which will be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I want to have it established in the first part of next year so that we can then capitalise it and get all of the sites that it has under its remit into development.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We will get to it in the legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: All decisions relating to the Fullflex factory building in Limerick, from its initial acquisition, its subsequent use and decisions on disposal, are being taken in the first instance by Limerick City and County Council, in the context of their implementation of the Limerick Regeneration Framework Implementation Plan. I understand that in consideration of the sale of the building, that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The information requested is set out in the tables at the link.   It should be noted that my Department has had several changes in function during the period from 2014 to date.  The figures include staff who subsequently moved to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the Department of Rural and Community Development as a result of those...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (15 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 116 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), provides for the payment to An Bord Pleanála (the Board) in each financial year of a grant of such amount as I may fix, with the consent of my colleague the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The grant goes towards financing the administration and general expenses of the Board.  While the...