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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Incidence (3 Jun 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: ...contributing to the deterioration of the concrete blocks. The emergence of similar problems among private households located in County Mayo was also reported in 2013. Over the course of 2014 and 2015, there were significant representations, media reports and letters from affected homeowners illustrating the increasing scale of the problems emerging in the two counties, the progressive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mica Redress Scheme (3 Jun 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I made Regulations under sections 2 and 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, to provide for a grant scheme of financial assistance to support affected homeowners in the counties of Donegal and Mayo to carry out the necessary remediation works to dwellings that have been damaged due to defective concrete...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: ...this can be seen in the planning application which has been submitted for lands at Shanganagh in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, where the LDA is working in partnership with the County Council to deliver over 350 cost rental homes. The selection of further sites for cost rental consideration will be informed by emerging policy and by the financial and operational model that will develop from the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1344 and 1345 together. The Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks in Construction (Remediation) (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2020 have been made under sections 2 and 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 to provide for a grant scheme of financial assistance to support affected homeowners in the counties of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In relation to the site referred to in Lusk, County Dublin, I can confirm that Fingal County Council has received approval in principle from my Department for Serviced Site Funding (SSF) of €1.5 million to assist its delivery of 39 affordable homes.  The latest information from Fingal County Council indicates that a contractor has yet to be appointed to construct these homes and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, the Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021. This funding will provide for infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 more affordable homes on local authority lands. SSF has been made available to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: ...the delivery of more affordable housing, is, in the first instance, a matter for each local authority and its elected members. In relation to the provision of affordable housing, I commenced Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, which covers Affordable Dwelling Purchase Arrangements, in June 2018. This now provides the statutory basis for the delivery of affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: ...to development costs via the Serviced Sites Fund, and the availability of low-cost, stable finance that is paid back over a long period of time. The Serviced Sites Fund provides €310 million of support to help deliver more affordable homes. I can confirm that the SSF is available to local authorities to fund initial infrastructure works and so reduce the cost of building homes,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: ...in their plans to provide more affordable housing on their lands, it is, ultimately, the responsibility of the each respective Council and their elected members to progress such schemes. Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009 which covers Affordable Dwelling Purchase Arrangements, was commenced in June 2018.  This now provides the statutory basis for the delivery...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (5 Mar 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I made Regulations under sections 2 and 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, to provide for a grant scheme of financial assistance to support affected homeowners in the counties of Donegal and Mayo to carry out the necessary remediation works to dwellings that have been damaged due to defective concrete...

Seanad: Microbeads (Prohibition) Bill 2019: Second Stage (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ..., its scope extends to cover household and industrial cleaning products containing plastic microbeads, which no other EU member state has done to date. This reflects our national position, held since 2015, of seeking the phase-out of all such products across the EU at the earliest opportunity. My concern about microbeads is shared across all parties and throughout broader society. I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021 to provide infrastructure to support the delivery of more affordable homes on local authority lands.  A maximum SSF funding amount of €50,000 is available per home. This sum comprises  €44,500 (or 89%)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...to purchase or self-build a new house or apartment to live in as their home. The incentive provides for a refund of Income Tax and DIRT paid over the previous four tax years, limited to a maximum of 5% of the purchase value. The HTB refund is capped at €20,000. As of 30 November 2019, Revenue has received 34,760 applications, and a total of 16,550 HTB claims have been made,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...and continues to be undertaken, pursuant to the implementation of the Planning Scheme. More generally in the Dublin Docklands area, the Poolbeg West SDZ Planning Scheme will deliver up to 3,500 homes in close proximity to Dublin City Centre. To improve access to this strategically important site, €15.75 million of Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (10 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Pillar 5 of Rebuilding Ireland sets out a range of measures to assist in meeting Ireland’s housing needs by ensuring that Ireland’s existing housing stock is used to the greatest extent possible. An overarching action within that Pillar is a commitment to develop a National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy. This Strategy, which I published July 2018, strives to provide a targeted,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...on the numbers of applications that it has assessed and recommended to approve since the scheme began. In 2018, the Housing Agency assessed 3,036 valid applications. Of these, it recommended 1,550 for approval. For 2019, as of end-October 2019, the Housing Agency have assessed 2,271 valid applications of which 1,133 have been recommended for approval. Local Authority ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021. This funding will provide for infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 more affordable homes on local authority lands. SSF is being made available in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), from 2019 to 2021, to provide infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 more affordable homes on local authority lands. This funding is being made available in areas where local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021.  This funding will provide for infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 affordable homes on local authority...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...of social housing. I see Deputy Darragh O'Brien laughing. It is probably because he does not understand the facts of the matter. Affordable housing output will steadily increase with the commencement last year of the relevant provisions of Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 to provide a statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase. The...