Results 101-120 of 145 for 5 million speaker:Eoghan Murphy

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: Public Private Partnerships (7 Nov 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing PPP Programme involves an investment with a capital value of €300 million.  It is to deliver 1,500 social housing units in total, via three bundles.  The first bundle, which comprises six PPP sites, is to provide over 500 units in the Greater Dublin Area.  Two of the sites are located in the Dublin City Council area with one each in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (13 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...local authority or an approved housing body (AHB). Provisional 2017 outputs, across the range of delivery methods available to local authorities and approved housing bodies, were published on 15 January 2018 and are available on my Department’s website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/housing/rebuilding-ireland/social-housing -delivery-2017-ministers-statement. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Nov 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...in accessing affordable housing, a multi-stranded, targeted approach is being pursued in the areas of the country most affected. The measures are targeted at households earning a maximum of €50,000 for a single applicant or €75,000 for a couple. Under Budget 2019, the Government has trebled, to €310 million, the funding available for key facilitating infrastructure...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Cathaoirleach and the Deputy and welcome everyone back to what is a very important Dáil term. I propose to take Questions Nos. 32, 34 and 36 together. Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced in June 2018 to provide a new statutory basis for affordable dwelling purchase arrangements. Initial regulations in regard to schemes of priorities were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Question Heading for question(s) 275 (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...or an approved housing body (AHB). At the end of 2017, a total of 820 applications had been received under the scheme. Local authorities were engaging with the property owners in relation to 573 properties, 31 agreements for lease had been signed and 9 homes had been delivered and tenanted. A detailed breakdown of the RLS scheme data up to end Q4 2017 is available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (13 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: ...element of Rebuilding Ireland, another effective way to meet housing needs is to achieve optimum occupancy of the existing housing stock, whether social or private housing. In this context, Pillar 5 of the Action Plan is specifically focused on "Utilising Existing Housing Stock", with a key objective of ensuring that the existing vacant housing stock throughout the country and across all...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...it more attractive and effective. At the Housing Summit held on 22 January 2018, local authority Chief Executives were advised that, from 1 February 2018, a number of key changes were being made to the scheme. These include: - a reduction in the minimum lease term required from 10 to 5 years; - increasing the proportion of market rent available to property owners where they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (21 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...and effective. At the Housing Summit held on 22 January 2018, local authority Chief Executives were advised that, from 1 February 2018, a number of key changes were being made to the scheme. These include: - a reduction in the minimum lease term required from 10 to 5 years; - increasing the proportion of market rent available to property owners where they take on more...

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,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...collaboration with the market and the development sector. Working together is achieving tangible outcomes. Up to the end of the second quarter of 2018, Rebuilding Ireland has delivered more than 57,000 housing solutions across all delivery streams. By the end of this year I expect that number to have grown to approximately 70,000 and we are on course to achieve that. We committed to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (21 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966 provides that the management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including the implementation of planned maintenance programmes and carrying out of responsive repairs and pre-letting repairs, is a matter for each individual local authority. The Exchequer funding provided by my Department under the voids programme is to support the return of...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Leakages (7 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...For example, in Dublin three major bursts, in the north docklands, Infirmary Road and Skerries, were wasting the equivalent of the daily water usage of Balbriggan, which has a population of about 25,000 people. These have now been repaired. In the greater Dublin area, Irish Water saw an increase of more than 10% in the call on normal treated water supplies from Friday, 2 March to...

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jun 2016)

Eoghan Murphy: ...of covered deposits of all credit institutions authorised in all of the participating member states, which is to be reached at the end of eight years. This is estimated to be in the region of €55 billion. During the transition period to full mutualisation, the fund will operate through national compartments into which member states will transfer the contributions collected from...

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,...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: ...deficit, I will give an example. No elected person in my constituency supports the Poolbeg incinerator project yet the city manager, for more than a decade, has presided over the spending of €90 million on that project with nothing yet built. A recent judgment from Europe states that one of the contracts in respect of that project, which is over-spent by more than 300%, is an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...Ireland website at and was further supported through Budget 2019, which has provided €2.4 billion for housing purposes this year.  Overall, the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan will increase the supply of new homes to 25,000 per annum by 2020; deliver an additional 50,000 social housing homes in the period 2016 to 2021; and meet the housing needs of a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (17 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...owners who can avail of the scheme are aware of the benefits. By the end of 2017, a total of 820 applications had been received under the scheme. Local authorities were engaging with the property owners in relation to 573 properties, 31 agreements for lease had been signed and 9 social housing homes had been delivered and tenanted. A detailed breakdown of the RLS scheme...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vacant Properties (26 Jun 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...range of measures the Government has introduced to allow for the reactivation of long-term vacant residential dwellings into the liveable housing stock. An overarching action within Pillar 5 of Rebuilding Ireland is a commitment to develop a national vacant housing reuse strategy, which I published in July 2018. The strategy strives to provide a targeted, effective and co-ordinated...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 124: In page 72, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 86 of Principal Act (exemption relating to certain dwellings) 51. The Principal Act is amended by substituting the following for section 86: “Exemption relating to certain dwellings 86.(1) In this section— ‘dwelling house’...