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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: The information sought is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Agencies Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: The information sought is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: The National Planning Framework will act as the strategic planning context for relevant Government policies and investment in housing, water services, transport, communications, energy, health and education infrastructure, as well as the preparation by the three new Regional Assemblies of their new regional spatial and economic strategies, and for planning authorities and An Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: I intend to launch a preliminary public consultation process later this month, and running until mid-March, to inform the drafting of the new National Planning Framework, a full draft of which will then be published for public consultation before the Summer. No decision on the detailed content or approach to be contained within the Framework has been taken by me or the Government at this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribe maximum net income limits for each housing authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band were based on an assessment of the income needed to provide for a household's basic needs...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: My Department has an agreement with a commercial company for the storage of Departmental records, the costs of which are borne by the Office of Public Works. File delivery and retrieval costs to and from storage are paid for by my Department and amounted to €7,699.87, €3,845.47 and €10,086.25 for 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: Funding is provided to local authorities under my Department’s Social Housing Capital Investment programme, to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects and through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments. There are also a wide range of funding and delivery mechanisms available to local authorities to deliver social housing either...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Evictions (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 201 6 was signed by the President on 23rd December 2016. It gives effect to a number of commitments related to tenant security contained in Rebuilding Ireland, the Government’s Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, and in the Strategy for the Rental Sector, which was published in December 2016. The Act includes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: Within the 47,000 social housing units to be delivered under Rebuilding Ireland: An Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, it is estimated at this stage that approximately 26,000 will be delivered from construction activity while 11,000 will be acquired by local authorities and approved housing bodies (AHBs) directly from the market or from the Housing Agency, with a portion of these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: Since the launch of the Social Housing Strategy 2020and continuing with the publication last year of Rebuilding Ireland: An Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, a substantial pipeline of new social housing construction projects has now been created that has reversed the position of previous years, when local authorities and AHBs had seen much reduced activity in this area. All of these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: The numbers of full time equivalent (FTE) civil service workers in my Department for the start of each of the years 2007 to 2015, broken down by the income bands requested, are set out in the table below. There was a significant change in the staffing levels in the Department from 2011 to 2012; this is a result of structural changes that occurred in May 2011 with the transfer of the heritage...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Agency Portfolio (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: The folio of lands referred to is in the ownership of the Housing Agency. The lands were purchased by the National Building Agency approximately 10 years ago and in the course of winding up the National Building Agency, this asset transferred to the Housing Agency. Under the Tipperary South County Development Plan 2009 – 2015, the land is zoned open space, and I understand that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: In June 2015, an independent statutory Committee was appointed to carry out a review of local government boundaries in Athlone, Carlow, Drogheda and Waterford. In each case, the committee was asked to carry out a review of the boundary between the respective local authorities and to make recommendations with respect to those boundaries and any consequential matters that they consider...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published on 13 December 2016,  outlined the Government's proposals for Rent Predictability, whereby an order can be made to moderate the rise in rents in areas of the country where rents are highest and rising, and where households have greatest difficulties in finding affordable accommodation. In these areas, called Rent Pressure Zones, rents will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: I have no proposals to establish a service along the lines of the planning aid service in the UK. This is a free service, independent of central and local government, whereby qualified planners offer professional advice on planning matters to local communities and individuals on a voluntary basis.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Grant Payments (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: All local authorities are in a position to fund window repairs and replacements where necessary under the Housing Aid for Older People grants scheme. The detailed administration of these grants, including the assessment, approval and prioritisation of grants to applicants under the various measures, is the responsibility of the local authorities. In this regard, local authorities prioritise...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: Motor tax is payable annually, half-yearly or quarterly on the basis of whole calendar months. Changing the commencement date of motor tax from the first of the month to a system where a vehicle is taxed based on the date of registration or date of change of ownership, effectively an individual date for every vehicle in the fleet, would require both legislative changes and significant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: Pillar 5 of the Government's Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness – Rebuilding Irelandis specifically focussed on Utilising Existing Housing Stock with a key objective of ensuring that the existing vacant housing stock throughout the country and across all forms of tenure, in both the public and private sectors, is used to the optimum degree possible. In this regard, action 5.1 of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: Information on the majority of approved social housing capital projects, including the number of units in each development and the funding approved, is available on my Department's website at the following links: . This information includes approvals under the Capital Assistance Scheme. As is standard with the Capital Assistance Scheme, all projects are implemented by approved housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (17 Jan 2017)

Simon Coveney: Information in relation to local authority repossessions is available on my Department's website at the following link: under the heading “Local authority repossessions”. This data is not broken down by loan type. My Department provides capital funding to support local authorities in transferring into permanent social housing stock, house/apartments that were financed using a...