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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., acquisition and leasing, including 8,110 new-build social homes last year. By any fair assessment, that was a very good performance. That is the highest level of new-build social homes in about 50 years. If HAP and RAS are included, 21,733 social housing supports were provided last year. Record State investment of €5 billion has been made available this year to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships (20 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...housing. Housing for All includes a specific objective to increase the use of PPPs to deliver social housing. The current Programme consists of 7 bundles of projects which will provide over 4,500 social housing units and is being delivered through the ‘availability’-based PPP model. Under this type of contract, a PPP consortium, as the private partner, designs, builds,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: .... At the end of quarter 1, we will have our social housing and affordable numbers for 2023 which I predict will show an increase on the previous year. Record State investment of more than €5 billion has been made available this year to support the largest State home building programme ever, including 9,300 new build homes - that is just the new-build piece. The Government has also...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes; 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing, and 28,500 new affordable homes in the period 2022-2026. Each local authority has prepared its own 5 year Housing Delivery Action Plan setting out their social and affordable housing delivery plans. 18 local authorities, including Louth County Council, were asked...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing over the next decade. 54,000 affordable homes will be delivered between now and 2030 to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency and through First Home, which is a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. Funding under the...

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

Darragh O'Brien: ...in the local government planning sector. The LGMA submitted a report entitled Business Case for Resources for the Planning Function of Local Authorities in 2022 which identified a shortfall of over 500 staff in local authority planning services at that time. Further to the submission of the report, my Department is working in conjunction with the LGMA on a programme of support to provide...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in new home delivery will be sustained in 2024 and over the coming years, with almost 33,000 (32,801) new homes commenced in 2023; this is the highest number of annual commencements on record, an increase of over 21.5 per cent compared to 2022 (26,957) and is the highest number of annual residential commencements since records began in 2014; — Budget 2024 provides an allocation of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...is found to be non-compliant. The Government is committed to ensuring that a stock of high quality accommodation is available for those who live in the private rented sector. Housing for All sets a target of 25% for the inspection of all private residential tenancies from 2021. A total of €9 million in Exchequer funding is being made available by my Department to local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...as many vacant properties back into use as possible. There are now a range of schemes and supports in place to support addressing vacancy. Among the measures in the Action Plan, I announced a €150 million Urban Regeneration Development Fund for local authorities to acquire vacant or derelict properties and sites for re-use or sale. The Fund will then be replenished from the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Housing for All. At the Cabinet meeting on 20 December 2023, to ensure the LDA was adequately capitalised to meet the requirements of Housing for All, the government agreed:to commit to the allocation of €1.25 billion additional equity share capital to the LDA from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF). This now brings ISIF equity funding to €2.5bn;to enable the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (14 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...April 2021 and set out our strategic goals, objectives and actions. It is available on my Department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/9a047-statement-of-strategy-2021-2 025/. A new Statement of Strategy for the period 2023-2025 was published in August of this year and is available on my Department's website at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Since 2014, Exchequer funding has also been provided through my Department's Voids Programme to supplement the local authority funding available for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...plan in the history of the State. The Plan is supported by an investment package of over €4 billion per annum, through an overall combination of €12 billion in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5 billion investment through the Land Development Agency (LDA) and €5 billion lending through the Housing Finance Agency (HFA). Budget 2024 again provides record levels...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in the local government planning sector. The LGMA submitted a report entitled Business Case for Resources for the Planning Function of Local Authoritiesin 2022 which identified a shortfall of over 500 staff in local authority planning services at that time. Further to the submission of the report, my Department is working in conjunction with the LGMA on a programme of support to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...plan in the history of the State. The Plan is supported by an investment package of over €4 billion per annum, through an overall combination of €12 billion in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5 billion investment through the Land Development Agency (LDA) and €5 billion lending through the Housing Finance Agency (HFA). Budget 2024 again provides record levels...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (7 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...my Department. The Government is committed to ensuring that a stock of high quality accommodation is available for those who live in the private rented sector. Housing for All sets a target of 25% for the inspection of all private residential tenancies from 2021. A total of €9 million in Exchequer funding is being made available by my Department to local authorities this year to...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in the construction sector, the first ever vacancy grants, the first ever cost-rental homes and the first affordable homes in over a decade. We are building more new social homes than we have in 50 years. Ireland is back building and under this budget we will build even more, with our highest ever capital investment of over €5 billion. In addition, we are also using the long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Sep 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 403, 404 and 524 together. The competition to appoint the next chief executive of Dublin City Council was advertised by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) on 15 September 2023. The competition is open for applications until 5 October 2023 and details of the appointment process are outlined in the information booklet for this competition. Dublin City...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...working to transition from a largely response and voids-based approach to housing stock management and maintenance - which is important as by the end of this year we will have brought back about 8,500 void properties since the Government came into office - to a planned maintenance approach, which we have committed to in Housing for All. This will require the completion of stock condition...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (6 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...provide growth capacity in smaller settlements that would otherwise not be provided for in Uisce Éireann’s capital investment plan. I understand from Uisce Éireann that an allocation of almost €100 million for this programme was approved by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. Uisce Éireann is working with local authorities across the country in...