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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government announced that additional public health restrictions would apply under Level 5 of the Plan for Living with COVID-19 on 6 January 2021. The additional restrictions required all construction activity to cease from 6pm on Friday 8 January, with a number of exceptions. These measures are set out in The Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 10)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: A review of the shared ownership scheme was undertaken by the Housing Agency in 2013 and is available at the following address: .

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department has provided funding support to local authorities for energy efficiency retrofitting works under the Social Housing Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme since 2013 and under the Voids Programme over the period 2014 – 2019. The provision of funding for energy efficiency uprgades in the local authority housing stock will continue under the Governments National...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Data in relation to leased dwellings, and dwellings delivered under Part V, in each of the years 2018 - 2020, broken down by local authority, is published on my Department's website at the following link: . My Department does not publish details of individual homes; however, the average annual cost of leased dwellings delivered by each local authority for 2018 - 2020 is set out in Table 1...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 404 and 405 together. On 8 February 2021 I announced that approval in principle had been given for the financing of 390 new homes for Cost Rental under the Cost Rental Equity Loan (CREL) scheme. Allocated €35m in Budget 2021, the CREL scheme will see the Government issue 40-year loans to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to cover up to 30% of the capital...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is not available in my Department. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2020, to operate a national tenancy registration system and to facilitate the resolution of disputes between landlords and tenants. The Clerk of the Dáil requested that arrangements be put in place...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Minimum standards for rental accommodation are prescribed in the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2019, made under section 18 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992. These Regulations focus on tenant safety and specify requirements in relation to a range of matters, such as structural repair, sanitary facilities, heating, ventilation, natural light, safety of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Control Management System (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Building owners, and builders are responsible for ensuring that buildings or works are carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Building Regulations. Under Article 8 of the Building Control Regulations 1997 – 2020, ‘A person who intends to carry out any works, or to make a material change of use as regards a building to which this Part applies, shall give, to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (10 Mar 2021)

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 housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless services rests with individual housing authorities. Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 sets out the purposes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area are provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The most recent summary, conducted in November 2020, shows that 61,880 households were assessed as qualified for and being in need of social housing support. This represents a decrease of 6,813...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not hold data on Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) tenancies by local electoral area, but rather collects and publishes data by local authority area. A breakdown of the number of tenancies supported under HAP for the period 2014 to 2020, broken down by local authority, is available on my Department's website at the following link: . HAP is a flexible and immediate housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Economic and Social Council (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: In June 2020, as a precursor to review of the National Development Plan (NDP), the NESC Secretariat were asked by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) to undertake research in relation to the policy options available to facilitate the delivery of public and private housing, in line with the compact growth targets set out in the National Planning Framework and related...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of fire station premises is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Services Acts, 1981 and 2003. My Department supports the fire authorities through setting general policy, providing a central...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of fire station premises, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Services Acts, 1981 and 2003. My Department, primarily through the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Advertising (10 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department has not incurred any expenditure on advertising in national newspapers, regional newspapers, national radio, regional and local radio stations and across social media platforms on COVID-19 awareness raising campaigns. However, in 2020, my Department spent €192,907 on public information material as part of the Government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is getting mixed up. She is talking about co-living. The statutory period is four weeks. The Deputy ought not let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 70 and 71 together. The Government announced that additional public health restrictions would apply under Level 5 of the Plan for Living with COVID-19 on 6 January 2021. The additional restrictions required all construction activity to cease from 6pm on Friday 8 January, with a number of exceptions, whcih are set out in The Health Act 1947 (Section 31A -...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government announced that additional public health restrictions would apply under Level 5 of the Plan for Living with COVID-19 on 6 January 2021. The additional restrictions required all construction activity to cease from 6pm on Friday 8 January, with a number of exceptions. These measures are set out in The Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 10)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: The Central Statistics Office publish the statistics for dwellings based on Building Energy Rating data on a quarterly basis. This data includes the main space heating fuel for dwellings by construction period. The Q4 2020 report is available at the following link on the CSO Website: There is no specific data available on space heating fuel used in new social housing.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (4 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: In general building defects are matters for resolution between the contracting parties involved, the homeowner, the builder, the developer and/or their respective insurers, structural guarantee or warranty scheme. The Programme for Government sets out a number of commitments in respect of the important policy area of building defects and provides for an examination of defective housing,...