Results 101-120 of 154 for 5 million speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Seanad: Planning and Development, and Residential Tenancies, Bill 2020: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...resolving the substitute consent issue, we are not telling the board what to do but are just allowing it to move on and make its decisions. As Members will be aware, we are incurring fines of €15,000 per day in relation to the Derrybrien site. We have already made a lump sum payment of €5 million and another stage payment of almost €2.5 million. The continuation of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (17 Dec 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...income that is temporary, short-term or once-off in nature. The income bands are expressed in terms of a maximum net income threshold for a single-person household, with an allowance of 5% for each additional adult household member, subject to a maximum allowance under this category of 10%; and 2.5% for each child, subject to a maximum allowance under this category of 10%. The...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the self-declaration protection. The fact that the protections are in place and that people, including landlords, are aware of the protections has a positive effect as well. We did issue 450,000 circulars to tenants and landlords. We are actively engaged with Threshold. I met with Threshold again on Monday, as it is part of my homelessness delivery task force. It has an input into...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Dec 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: Within my Department, Budget 2021 provided for a suite of affordable housing measures totaling €468 million, which represents 14% of the total Housing Budget. This will be utilised across two new programmes to deliver affordable homes to purchase and rent, the existing Serviced Sites Fund, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan and through...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Dec 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: Funding of €75 million in Budget 2021 has been be allocated to a new National Affordable Purchase Shared Equity Scheme, which will be introduced in 2021.  I intend to target this scheme at first time buyers including single persons, who are seeking to buy a new home but who cannot quite secure the full mortgage amount to do so at the present time. Subject to the final qualifying...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: The Programme for Government makes clear our commitments to provide measures for good-quality housing to purchase or rent at an affordable price and in Budget 2021, funding of €110 million was ring-fenced for two new schemes including a national Affordable Purchase Shared Equity Scheme and aCost Rental Equity Loan facilityto help deliver Cost Rental homes. Both of these programmes will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Department. Supporting these commitments, Budget 2021 provides a record €3.3 billion for the delivery of housing programmes. This represents an increase of €641m or 24% on 2020. Overall 50,000 new social homes are planned for delivery over the next 5 years, 12,500 of which are targeted for delivery next year including 9,500 new builds. I am also providing Capital...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 58 together. The Programme for Government makes clear our commitments to provide measures for good-quality housing to purchase or rent at an affordable price. In providing Capital of €468 million towards programmes that will support affordability, Budget 2021 backed up our intentions to deliver on these commitments. From this sum, €110...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Lending (24 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Central Bank’s Macro Prudential rules is not a matter for my Department, I would like to outline measures I am taking to deliver more affordable housing options. In Budget 2021, funding of €110 million was ring-fenced for two new schemes including a national Affordable Purchase Shared Equity Scheme and aCost Rental Equity Loan facilityto help deliver Cost Rental homes. Both...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 65, 92 and 129 together. In Budget 2021, €75 million was ring-fenced for the national affordable purchase shared equity scheme. I intend to target the scheme at first time buyers, who are seeking to buy a new home but who cannot quite secure the full mortgage amount to do so at the present time. Subject to the final qualifying criteria, the scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Programme for Government makes clear our commitments to provide measures for good-quality housing to purchase or rent at an affordable price. To this end, in providing Capital funding of €468 million, Budget 2021 made clear our intentions to deliver on these commitments and outlined our plans to cover affordability measures including: 1. €110 million which will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (24 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) was designed to support housing supply by relieving critical infrastructure blockages. 30 projects were approved with an overall budget of €195.7m, €146.8m Exchequer funded and the remainder funded by local authorities. Full details of the approvals are available online at www.rebuildingireland.ie/LIHAF. Of the 30...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...represents an increase of €641m or 24% on 2020 and the single biggest spend on housing by any Government, and will be the largest build programme in the history of the State. From this sum, €110 million was ring-fenced for two new national schemes to deliver more affordable housing: the Affordable Purchase Shared Equity Scheme, and the Cost Rental Equity Loan facilityto help...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (12 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...do not envisage a blanket rates waiver early next year. We would have to be more targeted in that regard. That work is ongoing and has not been concluded. On homelessness, the additional €60 million funding in the Supplementary Estimates relates to current spending. We had to do several things at the height of the pandemic. We moved money from other subheads to spend it...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: In Budget 2021, the total funding being made available for the delivery of housing programmes was €3.3 billion. From this sum, €468 million will be specifically provided to support housing affordability measures. This includes the Serviced Sites Fund, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan and the Land Development Agency (LDA)....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (3 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 566 and 568 together. My Department is responsible for the implementation of the Wildlife Acts and the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011, both of which underpin the legislative and policy framework for the protection and conservation of our natural heritage. In particular, the 2011 Regulations transpose two key pieces of EU...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...we need a mix of providers. We need landlords, tenants, public housing and private housing. Without question the market is very fraught at the moment. We have lost 16,000 tenancies since 2015 for many reasons, part of which is down to tax treatment and regulation. We should examine the matter further. I want more public housing. I want affordable rentals, which I have said. The...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Planning and Local Government, are bringing forward. In the short term, while we are dealing with the pandemic, we have ensured that our construction sector will keep going through levels 4 and 5. I commend it and all those workers in the sector who have shown an unbelievable degree of flexibility, working under tough conditions. They have endured and the sector has shown that it is...

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

Darragh O'Brien: The statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase in the State is Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, which was commenced in June 2018. Where an affordability challenge has been identified by a local authority together with a viability to deliver more affordable homes, the Serviced Sites Fund is available to sub-vent the cost of facilitating...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: In terms of affordable housing for purchase, the statutory basis for the delivery of affordable housing for purchase in the State is Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, which was commenced in June 2018. Under my Department's Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), €310 million has been allocated to provide infrastructure to support the delivery of more affordable new...