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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...can now do so with the help of these schemes. Last year, more than 4,000 individuals and couples were approved under the first home scheme. That is 4,000 households. Some 75% of those approvals have issued in Dublin, Cork, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow. More than 800 were approved in quarter 1 of this year alone, which is a 40% increase on the same three-month period of last year. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The uplift in commencement activity is being mirrored at local level across the country. For example, there were 1,019 new homes commenced in Cork county in quarter 1 2024, the highest for this period since records began more than a decade ago. The national surge in April was also seen in Cork county, with a record figure of 806 commencements in April. While it will take time to see recent...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...be able to judge. They will see delivery and commitment to house building, while on the other side are those who want to stall that progress. A total of 3,109 new homes were completed last year in Cork, which is significantly up on the previous year. Given the commencement figures that went through as well, and the delivery of affordable homes, Cork county and city councils need to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...we will do more than that again. Our plan is published and being implemented. It is happening. That is in stark contrast to the lack of any alternative. The Deputy has put nothing forward. In Cork county, there has been a 32% year-on-year reduction. In Longford, the reduction was 32% and, in Kildare, it was 22%. In Monaghan, it was 22% and, in Westmeath, it was 15%. There was also...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the fund we set up. With regard to the first home scheme, over 4,000 approvals were issued with the majority of them in areas where there are affordability challenges, such as counties Dublin, Cork, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow. We have actually had to approve a further €40 million, which will be matched by the retail banks, because the first home scheme is going from strength to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (29 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...to assist in progressively resolving issues with DPI in a number of locations across the country. I can confirm that in June 2023 I approved over €3.3 million of funding, under the DPI Programme, to Cork County Council to deliver this project to resolve the DPI issue in Crossbarry.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (29 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...to this grant scheme is available at the following link: gov - Thatching Grant (www.gov.ie) Details of the number of applications received by my Department for 2022 and 2023 in respect of private houses located in Cork are set out in the following table: Year No. Applications Received 2022 4 2023 9 My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...and typologies in urban areas (which tend to have higher construction costs). The approved funding of €75,000 is the level for the scheme density relevant to the specific scheme referenced. This will enable Cork County Council to offer the homes to eligible applicant households at a price that they can afford of up to 22% below their market value. The local authority will...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...of building apartments and the market sale price, is expected to deliver up to 5,000 owner-occupier apartments in urban centres. This will support compact growth and vibrant, liveable cities. Five contracts have been signed to date. That is almost 600 apartments that will be delivered under the scheme, including a 274-unit development in Cork city, the largest private sector apartment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (16 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Total HAP Inspections 2023 Carlow County Council 30 Cavan County Council 24 Clare County Council 449 Cork City Council 2535 Cork County Council 822 Donegal County Council 715 Dublin City Council 1,986 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Cavan Co. 0 5 7 12 12 2 Clare Co. 22 12 31 17 29 11 Cork City Council 20 9 27 16 24 2 Cork Co. 1 49 47 34 26 4 DLR Co. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Council €607.20 €371.92 Cavan County Council €504.27 €287.67 Clare County Council €559.93 €435.13 Cork City Council €856.96 €653.92 Cork County Council €801.14 €585.18 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...sites will become the main source of its delivery over the coming years as projects achieve planning and construction starts. Construction has commenced on the former St. Kevin’s Hospital site in Cork City which will deliver 265 new homes between 2025 and 2027 and on 219 new homes at the site of Devoy Barracks in Naas, Co Kildare, expected to be delivered between 2025 and 2026....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...not and to remove what is not needed. There have been great improvements to the public realm in the Cathaoirleach's constituency, such as in Wicklow town. I could give many other examples, such as in Cork city, where the local authority has been prominent in providing for permanent pedestrianisation. The same is true of Fingal and my town, Malahide, where the change that has been made...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Department does not collate data on the numbers of social housing units owned by individual local authorities nor those disaggregated by electoral boundaries. This information may be available from Cork County Council. The National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC) produces an annual Performance Indicator Report for local authorities, which details a range of performance indicators...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The detailed advancement of housing and other works under the Cork City North West Quarter Regeneration (CNWQR) programme is a matter, in the first instance, for Cork City Council. The CNWQR Masterplan & Implementation Report was published in 2011. The strategy outlined a departure from previous policy, with a proposal to carry out wholesale demolition of the housing stock in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The construction site on Kilmore Road, Knocknheeny forms part of the City Northwest Quarter Regeneration Programme, and part of Cork City Council’s wider social housing delivery programme. I have been advised by Cork City Council that Phase 2C is the subject of a complex contractual dispute. Cork City Council have advised that works have ceased on site pending the outcome of these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...x20ac; 200,666.67 Cavan € 244,687.50 Clare € 210,461.54 € 208,899.00 Cork City € 249,934.15 € 231,666.67 € 80,387.60 Cork County € ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Dublin local authorities have arrangements allowing social housing applicants apply for housing in up to two of the other Dublin authorities simultaneously. Similar arrangements apply in the two Cork and two Galway local authorities. Households may also move and relocate between housing authority areas under the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme where the household income is within...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ... Carlow €326,929.86 €435,889.70 Cavan €607,750.00 €0.00 Clare €2,286,815.69 €0.00 Cork County €3,499,048.42 €911,702.15 Cork City €2,550,975.29 €270,749.76 ...