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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments for social housing use, including delivery through the Buy and Renew Scheme. Activity in this regard is largely delegated to local authorities so they can respond...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department introduced the Enhanced Long Term Social Housing Leasing Scheme in order to target newly built or yet to be built houses and apartments for long term leasing, and to target property developers and investors who are in a position to deliver housing at a reasonable scale in order to supplement delivery under Pillar 2 of Rebuilding Ireland.  The Enhanced Leasing Scheme places...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Voids Programme funded by my Department, 7,333 vacant social housing homes were returned to productive use in the period 2016-2019. This figure does not include homes which were returned to productive use by local authorities using funding from their own resources. See the following table for full breakdown by local authority of the units funded by my Department: ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes information on the overall number and value 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 the number and value of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Delivery of more affordable homes to rent or buy is a priority for the Government.  My Department has developed a range of measures to assist local authorities to provide homes of this nature, which are being utilised at the two sites referred to by the Deputy. The regeneration of Poolbeg West is the next logical step in transforming the Docklands area, given its strategic location...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The finalised General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill was approved by Government in December 2019. Further policy work is continuing on the development of certain aspects of the proposed regime and intensive engagements in that regard are ongoing with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, who are leading the development of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme is designed to deliver approximately 1,500 social housing homes in total, via three bundles. The first bundle, which comprises six sites, will provide 534 homes across the Greater Dublin Area, as set out in the following table. Site (Local Authority) Number of Homes  Ayrfield, Malahide Road...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1339 and 1380 together. The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme, which came into operation on 1 January 2016, is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that are available for sale under the Scheme. To be eligible, tenants must meet certain criteria, including having a minimum reckonable income of €15,000 per...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: As an initiative of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is primarily designed to fund the provision of public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical infrastructure blockages and enable housing developments to be built on key sites at scale. 30 projects received final LIHAF approval with an overall...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1341 and 1390 together. I acknowledge the very stressful circumstances which owners and residents face when their homes are affected by construction defects. My colleague Minister English along with officials from my Department, met with the groups referred to by the Deputies earlier this year in relation to their proposals, which I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Section 3 of the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 - 2019 provides that those Acts apply to every dwelling the subject of a tenancy, subject to certain exemptions. Section 3(2)(g)  provides that those Acts do not apply to a dwelling within which the landlord also resides. Section 37 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019  extended the application of the Residential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes a monthly report on homelessness. The monthly report is based on data provided by housing authorities and produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS).  The report captures details of individuals utilising State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities.  Official homeless reports are...

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: Planning Issues (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy:  In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated public health restrictions introduced by the Government, three Orders have been made to date under Section 251A of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), disapplying the period from 29 March 2020 to 23 May 2020 inclusive (i.e. a period of 8 weeks or 56 days) in the calculation of any appropriate period,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 provides the statutory framework for the Pyrite Remediation Scheme. The Pyrite Resolution Board, with the support of the Housing Agency, is responsible for the implementation of the pyrite remediation scheme.  In accordance with the provisions of the Act, the Board is independent in the performance of its functions, and as Minister, I have no role in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: It is important to note that wherever a business operates, it will be subject to the same public health measures to protect the health of both employees and the wider public from the COVID-19 pandemic. The re-opening of businesses in the context of the pandemic should be in accordance with the terms of the Government's Roadmap for Re-Opening Society and Business, as published on 1...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1351 and 1358 together. With effect from 27 March 2020, new emergency measures were introduced into law to protect tenants during the COVID-19 emergency period. Rent increases are prohibited and tenants cannot be forced to leave their rental accommodation, other than in exceptional circumstances, during the COVID-19 emergency period. Initially, these emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I approved a new funding scheme for on-site wastewater treatment systems (more commonly known as septic tanks) under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021 to replace the current grant which was brought into operation by the Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013.  The grant scheme is also being expanded to support the attainment of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department recently published a Guidance Document on COVID-19 supports for landlords and tenants which sets out the emergency rental measures and income and other supports available to tenants and landlords during the emergency period. The Guidance document is available at: https://onestopshop.rtb.ie/images/uploads/general/COVID_Upda te_Guidance_Document_final.pdf.  and a list of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Affordable housing arrangements under the 1999 Affordable Housing Scheme and Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, provided for the payment of a "clawback" to the local authority.  This was in the event that the affordable dwelling was sold by the purchaser within 20 years, such "clawback" being a percentage of the proceeds of the sale. The...