Results 1-14 of 14 for construction industry council speaker:Eoghan Murphy

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

Eoghan Murphy: ...space above retail space, my Department launched the Bringing Back Homes – Manual for the reuse of existing buildings in April of this year, to help property owners, the public, local authorities and the construction industry to developing vacant buildings and space over commercial property. Bringing Back Homes aims to help increase housing supply as well as rejuvenate town centres...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties Data (6 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Both Cavan County Council and Monaghan County Council have prepared a Vacant Homes Action Plan for their administrative areas. In August 2017, I requested all local authorities to designate vacant home officers to co-ordinate local actions to address vacancy and also to undertake local vacancy surveys in order to identify - through their Vacant Homes Action Plans - priority "vacancy...

Seanad: Fire Safety in Apartment Dwellings: Statements (30 May 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I very much welcome the opportunity to be here today to discuss this very important issue of fire safety in apartment buildings. I think we are all agreed that this is a very important issue during construction but, of course, also during the lifetime of what is a person's home. The overall aim of the building regulations is to provide for the safety and welfare of people in and as they go...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (8 May 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...to the Deputy's query, Ó’Cualann Co-Housing Alliance is a co-operative housing alliance with Approved Housing Body Status. The inaugural O'Cualann project in Poppintree, Ballymun, Dublin, involved Dublin City Council, AIB and industry professionals and comprised 49 A2 rated 2-bed, 3-bed and 4-bed homes with sales prices ranging from €140,000 to €220,000. The...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: .... It is the type of information that we should always be gathering so that work to capture more data for those monthly reports is now happening. Senator Mullen asked about a particular Dublin City Council site and housing body. He said there had been a delay. I am not sure of the specific site. The Senator can provide me with information. We have a delivery office in the Department of...

Seanad: Housing Provision: Statements (30 Jan 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...-bedroom semi-detached homes, we would only be building in mistakes for the future. We have to rebuild the housing sector in a sustainable way, ensuring we will have sustainable jobs in trades and construction, in order that we will not build too much in one year and then have to cut back massively in the next. Where would all of those people go for work? All of these things have to be...

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

Eoghan Murphy: ...delivery schemes, due to yield up to 758 social homes, at various stages of advancement. Rapid delivery projects generally incorporate prefabricated building elements and as a result have shorter construction timeframes. Updated details in relation to the programme of rapid build projects are included in each Social Housing Construction Projects Status Report, which are published on a...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann notes" and substitute the following:"— the very significant impact that the economic downturn had on housing supply and the construction industry, with housing construction falling by over 90 per cent between the peak in 2006 and the trough in 2013; — that with the economy returning to significant and...

Report on Building Standards, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Motion (24 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...initiated in 2011 when a high level working group reviewed the existing building control regulatory framework. The key deficits identified in the regulatory regime were the lack of involvement of construction professionals on site and lack of accountability in compliance with the building regulations. In response, a three pronged building control reform agenda has been developed - reform...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"notes that: — the economic downturn had a very significant impact on housing supply and the construction industry, with housing construction falling by over 90% between the peak in 2006 and the trough in 2013; — with the economy returning to significant and consistent...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...welcomes the progress made in 2017, when almost 26,000 households had their social housing needs met, nearly 5,000 ahead of target; — notes that the Government has also implemented a suite of measures to reactivate residential construction activity more generally and support its capacity to deliver more affordable homes, through, inter alia:— fast-track planning reforms and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: ..., across all tenures of housing, that is widely accepted as being primarily responsible for driving the high levels of house price and rental inflation we have seen in recent years. Residential construction output reached unsustainably high levels, with peak output of 93,000 new homes in 2006, and  then dropped to 8,300 in 2013, including a large proportion of single...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: ...out a desktop study, which would include a consultation process with affected homeowners, public representatives, local authorities, product manufacturers, building professionals, testing laboratories, industry stakeholders and other relevant parties, to establish the nature of the problem in the affected dwellings; - (iii) To outline a range of technical options for remediation and the...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government does not oppose the Bill. In fact, we have never opposed it. I am not sure to what rumour Deputy Marc MacSharry is referring. We have always sought to work constructively on this matter because we value social clauses and access for small and medium-sized businesses to public procurement. I commend Deputy Frank O'Rourke for bringing forward the Bill. I also commend the...