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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Data (6 Sep 2019)

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

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Section 4 of the Act and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, set out various exemptions from the requirement to obtain planning permission. Any such exemptions are subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Internships (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has taken on 3 unpaid interns to facilitate their educational requirements during the period referred to, each for a duration of approximately 3 months. There is no ongoing arrangement in place for unpaid internships; however, they will be considered on a case by case basis having regard to specific circumstances.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Planning authorities and An Bord Pleanála, as appropriate, may grant planning permission for a development, which involves rock blasting, such as a quarry. A person is not entitled solely by reasons of a planning permission to carry out development. The issuing of a permit for the use of explosives in the extractive industry, or for other purposes, is a matter for An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Cyber Security Protocols (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Cyber security specialists are of critical importance in ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of an organisation's systems, files and data. My Department employs dedicated, professionally trained and certified cybersecurity staff and staffing levels are kept under ongoing review. The Department co-operates fully with the National Cyber Security Centre and implements its...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Operations (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has ICT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans which would be invoked in the event of any incident that impacts service delivery. My Department also has Disaster Recovery sites. ICT applications will fail over to designated sites on occasions where the main site is not operational. The Department keeps such matters under ongoing review.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The funding provided by my Department to Mayo County Council, in respect of the delivery of housing programmes, in each year from 2011 to 2018, and for the first eight months of this year, is set out in the following table. Year Total Expenditure € million 2011 11.47 2012 10.53 2013 12.25 2014 11.25 2015 11.45 2016 14.70 2017 15.10 2018 17.97 2019 (to end August) 17.71...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The provision of social housing is, in the first instance, a matter for individual local authorities. My Department collates statistical information on a quarterly basis from Local Authorities in relation to delivery outputs across all social housing delivery streams. Details on the number of social housing properties constructed or acquired by local authorities, to the end of Quarter 1 2019,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Following engagement between the European Commission and my Department regarding the European Court of Justice ruling in the "Flemish Decree" case, a working group was established to review and, where necessary, recommend changes to the 2005 Planning Guidelines on Sustainable Rural Housing, issued under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. The working group...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Section 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992, housing authorities may provide assistance to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for the provision and management of housing accommodation. As Minister, I am empowered to grant approved status to housing bodies for this purpose. AHBs are, by definition, non-profit, independent legal entities with independent governance...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Legislation (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The target timeframe for the publication of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill, as set out in the Climate Action Plan to tackle Climate Breakdown, is Q4 2019. Once the legislation is published, it will be a matter for the Oireachtas to consider the timing of its consideration so I cannot be specific on a timeframe in that regard. If the Bill is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The funding of the maintenance and repair of weirs is not a matter that has fallen within the remit of my Department and it has no specific funding line for such projects. However, I understand that this is a very important project for Cork County Council and the community of Fermoy, in particular. Given the priority attaching to the project, the matter was considered by the Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1994 and 1995 together. Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, provides that the management and maintenance of local authority housing stock is a matter for each individual local authority. This includes the implementation of planned maintenance programmes and carrying out of responsive repairs and pre-letting repairs. The Voids Programme, introduced in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: 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 officials began engaging with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in October 2018 when higher lending and drawdown...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In relation to the requirement for applicants who are seeking a mortgage to produce a tax clearance certificate, mortgage lending by banks and other Central Bank regulated mortgage lenders is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Finance. The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL) is the only mortgage product for which my Department has responsibility. The RIHL, which was introduced from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is supportive of the design build contractor framework which has been established by Dublin City Council to deliver larger scale residential developments through the use of volumetric construction methods. This framework is now available to all local authorities and will open up additional opportunities to deliver volumetric/rapid delivery apartments and housing for social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In order to support the delivery of affordable homes to buy or rent, the Government has committed €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), from 2019 to 2021 to provide infrastructure support for the delivery of over 6,000 affordable homes. The first call for proposals under the SSF issued in June 2018 and was specifically targeted at 11 local authorities, where the greatest...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The local authority mortgage protection insurance (MPI) scheme has applied to all house purchase loans approved by local authorities after 1 July 1986, including the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan introduced on 1 February 2018. The Consumer Credit Act 1995 applied conditions on lenders which applied to local authorities as well as commercial lenders. Under section 126 of the Act, the lender is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2001 and 2007 together. My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines in line with the “preferred draft approach” which was announced in June 2017 by the then Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, in conjunction with the then Minister for Communications, Climate Action...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Findings and recommendations from the National Taking in Charge Initiative (NTICI) were included in a report on the initiative that was published by my Department in December 2018. The report is available on my Department's website at the following link:www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/publications/fil es/national_taking_in_charge_initiative_report_dec2018.pdf. The publication of the...