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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (26 Apr 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...relevant bundle of social housing units in return for a monthly ‘availability’ and performance-based payment (or unitary charge) made over the operating period. The duration of the contract is the construction period plus a 25-year operating period and no unitary charge payments are made until the homes are constructed and available to house tenants. The estimated full value...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Apr 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Housing Fund. The Land Development Agency will also deliver Cost Rental, either on its own portfolio of sites or through acquisitions under Project Tosaigh. Budget 2022 allocated €70 million to the CREL scheme for Cost Rental delivery by AHBs in 2022. Over 900 homes have been approved for funding under the scheme to date, with a total of almost 4,000 CREL-funded homes being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Grants for Older People and People with a Disability facilitates older people and people with a disability to remain living independently in their own homes. Voted capital funding of €65 million is available in 2022, which is an increase of €5 million on the 2021 provision of €60 million, continuing the year on year increases since 2014. In...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Grants for Older People and People with a Disability facilitates older people and people with a disability to remain living independently in their own homes. Voted capital funding of €65 million is available in 2022 which is an increase of €5 million on the 2021 provision of €60 million, continuing the year on year increases since 2014. Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (2 Mar 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: .... Although the COVID-19 pandemic and construction restrictions impacted on delivery timelines in 2021, a scale up in Cost Rental delivery will occur in the near-term. Under Budget 2022, €70 million was allocated to the Cost Rental Equity Loan (CREL) scheme for Cost Rental delivery by AHBs in 2022. Over 900 homes have been approved for funding under the scheme to date, with a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...supply by putting in place the enabling public infrastructure necessary to ensure that large scale development could take place on key sites in urban areas of high housing demand. Funding of €200 million was originally made available under LIHAF, of which €150 million would be funded by the Exchequer with local authorities to match fund €50 million. The Call for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Feb 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...at a national and local level, including data collection and analysis. Complete VHU Established August 2017. Continued funding to support Vacant Homes Officers in LAs 2021/2022 - €50,000 p.a. Under Housing For All the Government has committed to ensuring that these are full-time posts increasing funding to support Vacant Homes Officers 2022/2023 - €60,000 p.a. ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...division; Lorraine O'Donoghue, principal officer, local government finance unit; and Janet Jacobs, assistant principal officer, departmental finance unit. Starting with Vote 34, this totals over €5.9 billion for the year and comprises €2.5 billion in current funding and €3.4 billion on the capital side. In addition, there is a €276 million capital carry-over...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Priorities (25 Jan 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...have been received under the Scheme and 2530 dwellings have been included. Of the dwellings included, the works in respect of 2292 are complete with the rest at various stages of progress. A budget of €20 million has been provided for in 2022, with an expectation that approximately 270 homes will be remediated. Separately, I have established a working group to examine defects in...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...800 building and contracting entities are currently included on the register. When the register is operating on a statutory footing post the passing of this legislation, it is envisaged that at least 5,000 entities will be required to register. The legislation will require providers of building services to register with CIRI. This will apply to entities or individuals who hold...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...at relatively short notice. I will keep my remarks brief. Obviously, I will be happy to take any questions members may have. The subject matter we are discussing here is specifically the €198.9 million additional funding to be added to the overall provision for my Department. The Estimate, which I set before the committee in October, detailed my Department’s budget for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...18,000 cost rental homes. The Plan is backed by historic levels of investment with in excess of €20bn through the Exchequer, the Land Development Agency and the Housing Finance Agency over the next 5 years. This will provide the sector with the stability and certainty it needs. Indications of increased construction activity are becoming evident which will help increase the supply...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Court of Justice (9 Nov 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...2019, the Court of Justice of the EU published its judgment in case C-261/18 Commission v Ireland (the Derrybrien Windfarm case). The Court ruled against Ireland and imposed a lump sum fine of €5 million and a daily fine of €15,000 against Ireland until compliance with the judgment is achieved, plus legal costs, payable to the European Commission. The court judgment will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (19 Oct 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 443, 444 and 445 together. The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, responsive repairs and implementing planned maintenance programmes, is a matter for each individual local authority, in line with Section 28 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 2009. Notwithstanding the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 350 and 352 together. Since 2014, Exchequer funding has been provided through my Department's Voids Programme to support local authorities in preparing vacant units for re-letting. Some 16,102 vacant social housing homes were returned to productive use in the period 2014-2020. This figure does not include homes which were returned to productive use by local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Student Accommodation (28 Sep 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...accommodation. The Plan is backed by historic levels of investment with in excess of €20bn through the Exchequer, the Land Development Agency (LDA) and the Housing Finance Agency over the next 5 years. Crucially Housing for All takes a genuine whole of Government approach to creating a long-term, sustainable housing system for Ireland. I am confident that the breadth of measures and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (27 Jul 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Regeneration programme in the 2021 vote and for years previous for the refurbishment, regeneration or replacement of flat complexes built from the 1930s to the 1960s. The 2021 Vote allocated €73million for the subhead A.15 Estate Regeneration programmes includes Disabled Persons Grants, extensions, improvements works in lieu, remedial works schemes and the various regeneration...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Jul 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: To date, Serviced Sites Funding of almost €200 million has been approved in principle in support of 40 infrastructure projects in 14 local authority areas across 9 counties, which will assist in the delivery of almost 4,200 affordable homes for purchase or for rent, all of which will be delivered on local authority land. Affordable Cost Rental homes will also be delivered by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Jul 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: To date, Serviced Sites Funding of almost €200 million has been approved in principle in support of 40 infrastructure projects in 14 local authority areas across 9 counties, which will assist in the delivery of almost 4,200 affordable homes for purchase or for rent, all of which will be delivered on local authority land. Details of 35 SSF projects which received approval in principle...