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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (3 Jun 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1225 and 1226 together. The Land Development Agency (LDA) was established on an interim basis in September 2018, by way of an Establishment Order (S.I. 352 of 2018, as amended by S.I. 603 of 2018) made under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971, pending the enactment of primary legislation when it will be established as a commercial State...

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

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes information on the overall number, value and average values of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns. Local authority approval means that an official letter of offer has been sent to a borrower (and therefore relates to a specific property and loan amount). Information on the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan for 2019, including...

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

Eoghan Murphy: As part of the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan application process the Housing Agency provides a central support service which assesses applications for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. Housing Agency recommendations are then considered by the Credit Committee in each local authority,...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Programme for a Partnership Government recognises the potential role that Credit Unions can play in housing finance and supported the efforts of the Registrar of Credit Unions at the Central Bank to gradually lift current investment restrictions as appropriate, including for housing. Credit Union bodies have set out proposed means by which funding could be provided by the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is designed to enable credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range. The scheme is targeted at first-time buyers who have access to an adequate deposit and have the capacity to repay a mortgage, but who are unable to access a mortgage sufficient for them to...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Louth County Council recently submitted an application for funding support for this project under Call 2 of the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund.  The final date for the submission of applications under Call 2 was last Friday, the 29th May.  The application in question will be considered in due course.

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

Eoghan Murphy: Strategic Housing Developments (SHD) are classed as Strategic Infrastructure Developments within the definition of ‘strategic infrastructure development’ through Section 13 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 which updated Section 2 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act). The process for proposing an amendment to a...

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

Eoghan Murphy: All local authorities, including Monaghan County Council, are being funded to significantly increase their delivery of social housing in line with their Rebuilding Ireland targets and a strong social housing construction pipeline is already in place for local authorities and approved housing bodies both nationally and in Monaghan. Information on social housing delivery is published by my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (3 Jun 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The role of my Department in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of local authorities in addressing homelessness at local or regional level. Responsibility for the provision of emergency accommodation and related services for homeless persons is a matter for the local authorities, and the Dublin...

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

Eoghan Murphy: With effect from 27 March 2020, new emergency measures were introduced into law to protect tenants during the COVID-19 emergency period. Tenants cannot be forced to leave their rental accommodation, other than in exceptional circumstances, during this period. Initially, these emergency laws will apply for a period of 3 months, but they may be extended if the Government considers it...

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: Disabilities Data (3 Jun 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area are set out in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). Since 2016, the Summary process has been carried out on an annual basis and generally takes place in June of each year. The purpose of the SSHA is to capture the total number of households qualified for social housing...

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

Eoghan Murphy: To date, there have been no instances in which I, or a Minister of State in my Department, have made decisions contrary to the advice of the Office of the Planning Regulator (the Office). The Office has a statutory role under Section 31P of the Planning and Development Act 2000 as amended (the Act), in the evaluation of matters relating to county and city development plans, variations to...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The making or varying of a county or city development plan is a reserved function of the elected members of a local authority in their capacity as planning authority under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act). Statutory requirements governing the content and process for review of a development plan are set out in Sections 10-12 of the Act. A planning authority may also,...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, 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.   My Department actively encourages local authorities to ensure all vacant properties in their stock...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under Section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended), I am precluded, in my capacity as Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, from involvement in any particular planning case and therefore I am not in a position to comment on the proposed development referred to. In 2018, I published updated Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals.  At the end of Q4 2019, over 71,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 52,500 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 30,000 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1251 and 1256 together. The Social Housing Leasing Programme, the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) are all critical components of the accelerated delivery of social housing envisaged under Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness. The position in Longford and Westmeath, as at end 2019, for...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1252 to 1255, inclusive, together. While the social housing stock numbers of each local authority area is changing consistently, particularly given the inflow of new delivery as part of Rebuilding Ireland, the number of social homes owned by each local authority – including Longford and Westmeath - is captured at a particular point in time by the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, all local authorities including Kildare County Council, have funding available to them to deliver new social homes through a variety of delivery programmes.  This has included agreements with developers to complete new homes and deliver them to the local authority on a ‘turnkey’ basis.  That option has been utilised by many local authorities...