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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: 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, which issues loan approvals. I asked the Agency to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015, provide the basis for the current Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme, which came into operation on 1 January 2016, which allows local authorities to sell local authority owned dwellings to existing social housing tenants. The Scheme does not extend to houses owned by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) as the ownership of these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Approved Housing Bodies play an increasingly integral role in the delivery of social homes across the country. Over the period 2011 to 2018 more than 11,000 new social homes have been delivered by Approved Housing Bodies and last year 38% of all the social homes delivered by the Rebuilding Ireland were delivered in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies.  As delivery has grown so too...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 760 and 761 together. The funding provided to Cavan County Council and Monaghan County Council under the main Local Authority Capital Programme for the construction and acquisition of social housing in each year for the period 2011 to 2018 is set out in the table below. LA 2011€m 2012€m 2013€m ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Earlier this year I announced details of the new Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2019-2021.  This included an improved funding scheme for individual wells.  The changes to this scheme demonstrate the Government's strong commitment to supporting this critically important resource and are as follows: - A maximum grant for rehabilitation works of €3,000 (which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribe maximum net income limits for each local authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy.  Under the Household Means Policy, which applies in all local authorities, net income for social housing assessment is defined as gross household...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 766 to 768, inclusive, together. As Part 8 type developments are exempt from planning permission, my Department does not collate statistics in this regard.  In order to obtain this information, individual local authorities should be contacted directly.  In the first instance, it is a matter for each local authority and its elected members to agree...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Eligibility (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals.  At the end of Q3 2019, nearly 67,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 50,000 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 29,000 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme enables credit-worthy first-time buyers to access sustainable mortgage lending to purchase new or second-hand properties in a suitable price range, where they cannot obtain sufficient mortgage finance from a commercial lender.  As with the previous local authority loan offerings, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is available to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department has not received any further submissions or proposals in relation to this turnkey housing project since the previous decision was made. Therefore there is no change on the previous position.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Oversight & Audit Commission (NOAC) collects and publishes data on social housing related issues in local authorities, including the number of dwellings in the ownership of each authority, numbers sold, demolished or planned for demolition. This data is available in NOAC’s Annual Performance Indicator Reports for the years 2014-2018; the most recent data on a local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department publishes information on the sale of local authority houses each year. This information can be accessed on my Department's website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/housing/statistics/social-and-affordble/o ther-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics Data for 2019 sales will be published when they become available, this is expected to be towards the end of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or the associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Any development that is carried out without planning permission or that does not comply with the terms of a planning permission is unauthorised development and may be subject to enforcement action by a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Initial afforestation is subject to a statutory development consent system under the Forestry Regulations 2017, administered by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.  The 2017 Regulations make specific provision for public consultation in the application and approval processes relating to afforestation developments. As part of the statutory public consultation process,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: As part of the actions under the Government's Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness – Rebuilding Ireland, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: With regard to development contributions, my role as Minister is generally to provide the necessary legislative and policy framework governing development contribution schemes operated by planning authorities. Under sections 48 and 49 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, planning authorities may levy development contributions. The basis for the determination of a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Initially, funding of up to €200 million for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was raised by the Housing Finance Agency (HFA) from a variety of sources, on a fixed rate basis for periods out to thirty years maturity.  Based on the pricing achieved, local authorities could offer a first tranche of fixed-rate annuity finance to eligible borrowers at rates of 2.0% and 2.25% per...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Housing Finance Agency (HFA) plc is a non-commercial semi-State company under the aegis of the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government, limited by shares under the terms of the Housing Finance Agency Act 1981. The principal objectives of the company are to advance funds to local authorities and approved housing bodies to be used by them for any purpose authorised under the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Development Plan 2018-2027 provides for the delivery of 112,000 new social homes over the next decade, supported by capital funding of €11.6 billion.  These 112,000 new social homes will be delivered through a range of mechanisms, including build, acquisitions and long term leasing.  It should be noted that the delivery of the 112,000 new social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: All three of the current expenditure funded schemes – the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS), the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) and the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) - are critical components of the accelerated delivery of social housing envisaged under Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness. The annual cost of the three schemes to...