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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: -----whereas institutional investors are making a 40-year play and will abide by the laws because they have got a board, shareholders and everyone else to report to and provide good accommodation and everything else. There is a balance to be struck and we will try to strike that balance as we work through the proposals the Deputy will present next week. With regard to social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates Exemptions (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Generally, property occupied by Government Departments are exempt from commercial rates.  In the case of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, under the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, there is a requirement that expenses incurred in relation to the operation of the Social Insurance Fund must be recouped to other Government Departments. This includes a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department provides funding to local authorities under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs and also facilitate the early return from hospital stays. The detailed administration of the grants including their assessment, approval and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 658 and 683 together. Under my Department’s grant scheme for the renewal or repair of a thatched roof, funding of up to €3,810, or two thirds of the approved cost, whichever is the lesser, may be payable in respect of necessary works to renew or repair the thatched roofs of private houses. There is no differentiation in these grants between...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 659 and 660 together. Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) are making an important contribution to social housing delivery, as envisaged in Rebuilding Ireland. My Department operates a number of funding programmes that assist local authorities to work in partnership with AHBs to construct, purchase or lease new homes and make them available for social housing. This...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the reply to Question No. 1939 of 6 September 2019. Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. Irish Water, as a single publically owned national water services authority, is taking a strategic, nationwide national utility approach to asset planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (17 Sep 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 local level.  Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of emergency accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Local Authorities continue to accept applications under the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme.   When the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL) scheme was initially being developed, it was estimated that the drawdown of loans would be approximately €200 million over three years.  However, the RIHL proved to be more successful than initially anticipated. My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 665 and 666 together. The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate housing support that is available to all eligible households throughout the State. At the end of Q2 2019, over 48,260 active tenancies were being supported by the HAP scheme. This includes 1,344 tenancies in County Clare. Limerick City and County Council provide a highly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (17 Sep 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 invited to submit their bids for the funding of schemes or projects in their functional areas and Kerry County Council included the scheme referred to in its application to my Department under the new Programme. An...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Property Registration Authority (PRA) is the State organisation responsible for the registration of property transactions in Ireland. The PRAs Digital Mapping Project ran from September 2005 to September 2010.  This was a major transformation project involving the digitisation of approximately 2.4 million land parcels, made up of approximately 15 million line segments. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Work is at an advanced stage of development of the funding scheme referred to by the Deputy.  I expect that the process will be substantially completed shortly when the necessary regulations dealing with the financial assistance arrangements and related administrative matters are put in place.  This will enable a circular letter, terms and conditions, guidance and the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under section 7 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the 2000 Act), all planning authorities are required to keep a register in respect of all land within their functional areas. In this regard, planning authorities have to include in such registers particulars of all planning applications made to the authority under the 2000 Act, including quarries. The register also...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016. The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 484 of 2015) set down the terms and conditions of the scheme. The operation of the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme is a matter for the local authority concerned, in line with the legislation and the 2015 Regulations. Local authorities are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Valuation Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland and the Property Registration Authority are being merged into a new single organisation, Tailte Éireann, to deliver more integrated, efficient and effective State land, spatial data and property administration services for Ireland. From January 2018 responsibility for the oversight of the three bodies, and the related merger project,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In 2019, a total of €71.25 million is available for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Scheme, in respect of private houses. This is made up of €57 million Exchequer funding, which is an increase of some 8% on the 2018 figure, with the balance of €14.25m being contributed by the local authorities.  The...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Kildare County Council is securing a total of 44 new social homes at the location referred to.  Of these, 5 arise through Part V arrangements and 39 through a 'turnkey' arrangement with the developer. To date, funding of €3,139,648 has been provided by my Department in respect of housing units delivered to Kildare County Council at this development.

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

Eoghan Murphy: The capital expenditure provision for my Department in 2020, as set out in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report 2019 published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, amounts to €2.205 billion  - an increase of  €81m on the 2019 allocation of €2.124 billion. This 2020 provision does not take into account a further €13m...

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

Eoghan Murphy: As with the previous local authority house purchase loan offerings, the properties that may be purchased with a Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan must have a gross internal floor area of 175 square metres or less, which is equivalent to 1,884 square feet.  This property size limit more than adequately provides, in terms of property size, for the range of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) supported tenancies are agreed between the landlord and the tenant. It is important to note that the local authority is not a party to the tenancy and has no role in its agreement. There is no limitation placed by the scheme on the length of tenancy that can be supported by  HAP. However, as with other private rental tenancies, the Residential Tenancies...