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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I received the report, entitled 'A Review Into Certain Planning Matters in Respect of Donegal County Council', by Mr. Rory Mulcahy S.C., on 11 June 2017. Following initial analysis and assessment of the report's findings and recommendations, including interaction with my Department's own legal advisors and the Attorney General's Office, a comprehensive set of queries and a request for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Mortgage to Rent (MTR) scheme introduced in 2012 is targeted at those households in mortgage arrears who have had their mortgage position deemed unsustainable by their lender under the Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process. In order for a borrower to qualify for the MTR scheme, the mortgage, property and household must meet detailed eligibility criteria. In addition, the MTR process has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: On 8 February 2019, I announced details of the measures being funded through my Department under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021. In parallel to the announcement, local authorities were invited to submit their bids for the funding schemes or projects in their functional areas, with the deadline for receipt of proposals set as 14 March 2019. The new multi-annual programme...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (13 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 up to Quarter 4 2019, including in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1248 and 1256 together. My Department publishes comprehensive quarterly data in relation to social housing delivery, including data broken down by local authority area and by delivery stream, including those relating to Build, Acquisition, Leasing and other housing supports such as HAP and RAS. The most recent data published covers the period to the end of Q3...

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

Eoghan Murphy: While my Department is supporting Dublin City Council and, indeed, other local authorities, in their plans to provide more affordable housing, land utilisation and activation, including for the delivery of more affordable housing, is, in the first instance, a matter for each local authority and its elected members. In relation to the provision of affordable housing, I commenced Part 5 of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Dublin City Council-owned land at Emmet Road, Inchicore, which is largely comprised of the former St Michael’s Estate, is a Cost Rental ‘pathfinder’ pilot development. Cost Rental is housing where rents are charged at a level to cover the cost of delivering, managing and maintaining the homes only. It is not designed to replace traditional social housing provision for...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The Government is committed to the introduction of the Cost Rental housing model in Ireland. Cost Rental is generally understood as being housing where the rents cover the cost of delivering, managing, and maintaining the homes only, less any financial supports provided by the State or Local Authorities. Depending on the nature of the model, Cost Rental lacks the level of profit margin often...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland, the Government is making €310 million available under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) to provide infrastructure to support the delivery of more affordable homes on local authority lands. A maximum SSF funding amount of €50,000 is available per home. This sum is comprised of €44,500 (or 89%) Exchequer contribution and a...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The current statutory basis for affordable housing (referred to as "affordable dwelling purchase arrangements") is set out in Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, which was commenced in June 2018. Regulations pursuant to Part 5 were made on 22 March 2019, dealing with the making of Schemes of Priority and other procedural matters in connection with affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness, the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 (the Act) introduced new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments (SHDs) of 100 housing units or more, or student accommodation or shared accommodation developments of 200 bed spaces or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (13 May 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). The most recent summary, conducted in June 2019, shows that 68,693 households were assessed as qualified for and being in need of social housing support. This represents a decrease of 3,165 households or 4.4% on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is a flexible and immediate housing support that is now available to all eligible households throughout the State. Details of the number of active tenancies and the average monthly landlord payment by local authority area at the end of Quarter 4 2019 are set out in the table below. Local Authority Average Landlord Payment ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: Commitments were included in the Government's Strategy for the Rental Sector and National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy, to examine the treatment under the Nursing Home Support Scheme’s (or Fair Deal Scheme's) financial assessment of income from a person’s principal private residence (PPR), where they move into long-term residential care. These commitments reflected an intent to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The right of local authorities to set and collect rents on their dwellings is contained in section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. The making or amending of such schemes, subject to broad principles laid down by my Department, is an executive function and each local authority has its own separate differential rent scheme or schemes in operation. As I have no function in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand that the digitisation of the Property Registration Authority (PRA) map record took place between December 2005 and August 2010. During this period, approximately 2.5 million registered land parcels, comprising approximately 15 million line entities, were digitised from 36,000 PRA paper map sheets. The project involved much more than transferring registered land parcels from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: A claim to register rights of the kind referred to can be made to the Property Registration Authority (PRA) under Section 49A of the Registration of Title Act 1964. Further information on the Prescriptive Easements/Profit-a-Prendre scheme operated by the PRA is available on its Practice Direction entitled Registration of Easements and Profits-a-Prendre Acquired by Prescription Under Section...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government approved the merger of Galway City Council and Galway County Council on 18 June 2018. However, the elements of the Local Government Bill 2018 that provided for this merger were not ultimately passed by the Oireachtas. At the current time, all local authorities are experiencing financial challenges. In order to support the local government sector generally, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In 2020, total funding of €73.75 million is available for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Scheme, in respect of private houses. This is made up of €59 million Exchequer funding, which is an increase of some 3.5% on the 2019 provision, with the balance of €14.75 million being contributed by the local authorities. Increasing...