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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...retrofitting more generally. There has been a dramatic increase in the retrofitting of houses across the country, which goes to the heart of the ESRI report, with better quality housing in the rental market, local authority housing and housing more generally. That is the way to deal with it. Without doubt, since 2020, post Covid, there has been a dramatic increase. An additional...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Joan Collins: ...to turn our housing policy into a failed policy to allow the big banks and developers to make profit instead of providing homes for ordinary people. Nowhere is this failure clearer than in the rental sector. Average rents more than doubled between 2012 and 2022. I assure the Tánaiste that wages did not double in that time. The Government stood by and allowed rents to eat more and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...I ask Deputy Gould to give the details regarding the case he outlined and we will look at it for him. I am happy to help. The equity amount under the affordable housing fund is €100,000 for affordable purchase and €150,000 for cost rental. I would need to see the details of the case in question. To respond to Deputy O’Sullivan, it is important we look forward,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Darragh O'Brien: ...the private delivery within those estates. That is mixed tenure, which we all want. I was in Kilkenny yesterday where there are two magnificent developments with mixed tenure. The first is cost rental. The Minister of State will know about that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)

Alan Dillon: ...Croí Cónaithe towns fund is a key measure in returning vacant and derelict properties into use. A grant of up to €50,000 is available for the refurbishment of vacant properties into a home or rental property with a top-up grant of €20,000 available for derelict properties. The grant is making a real impact in addressing vacancy and is making the purchase and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Malcolm Noonan: ...not get into a response on specific projects. The local authorities are delivering affordable homes with funding approval in place to assist with the delivery of more than 4,135 purchase and cost-rental homes across 21 local authorities with support of more than €335 million from the affordable housing fund. Again, I will not get into specifics about-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Eoin Ó Broin: ...'s tenure. Last year, he missed his affordable housing targets by more than 60% and the year before by 50%. Increasingly, the homes he is delivering through the affordable purchase and cost-rental schemes are not affordable. Can the Minister give us an update on targets for this year for those two schemes, the progress with those targets and an indication of whether he will meet those...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

...to see whether I have the accumulative figure. If I do not have it, we can send it to the committee. We break it into two aspects. There are the ongoing legal costs which include administration, rental and other human resources advice and so forth. There are then the claims, defence, litigation, the contract and all the stuff where the big money and the court cases are. We will...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...Is beag áit atá ar fáil ar cíos go fadtéarmach. The housing crisis is the biggest thing pushing people out of the Gaeltacht. People cannot get planning permission to stay in their own areas, they cannot buy houses and there are few places available for long-term rental. The protesters have three areas they want the Government to look at and I bring them up...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (30 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...as it has extended beyond that for many years. We also know that levels of homeownership amongst artists is a lot lower than among the general population and that artists depend more on private rental accommodation in our cities and in particular those who are working in the area of circus spectacle, street arts and the like. The majority of artists under the age of 25 live with their...

Seanad: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (29 May 2024)

Fintan Warfield: .... That is understandable. However, we are in the grip of a housing crisis of epic proportions. My generation, in particular, is locked out of access to affordable homes and stuck in an out-of-control rental system. People face crippling rents with little hope of being able to buy a first home in which to build a future and a family. We need a massive increase in State investment in...

Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Fintan Warfield: ...owned at the end will also increase. The purchaser may have to pay even more. If, after spending more than 30 years working hard to pay down the mortgage, they have not paid off the more than €100,000 equity, this amount will be passed on to their children as a penalty they will inherit and have to pay. When it comes to affordable rental in Citywest, the Land Development Agency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

...provided in an agreed sustainable method on a long-term basis. On the issue of access to purpose-built designed day service locations, through the past 10 years or so the HSE has allocated lease rental and one-off fit-out funding to service providers to develop new day service locations. While this model has supported the development of locations, it is expensive, does not allow for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (29 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Agency (LDA) and €5bn lending through the Housing Finance Agency (HFA). In 2024, over 29,000 additional households will have their housing needs met (23,130 social and 6,400 affordable) This funding will facilitate the delivery of new social, affordable and cost rental homes, along with the implementation of a broad range of housing programmes providing targeted support to meet...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (29 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Niamh Smyth: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason legislation was introduced in 2013 to deprive a person of class S contributions from rental income due to the fact that the person had eight class A contributions in that contribution year. [24215/24]

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...I deal with there, but I know they are robbing Peter to pay Paul. They do not have a decent budget to do what they need to do. This is almost hidden because we have such dysfunctional housing and rental sectors. The one glimmer of hope was retrofitting. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the target was 36,000 houses by 2030. Louth County Council has a stock of 4,200. It is...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mairead Farrell: ...their properties. Local authorities have to make housing maintenance an absolute priority for the health and safety of Galwegians who are renting. We need action to ensure minimum standards in rental accommodation are met, particularly in State-owned accommodation because this is where we can act. We need investment in our housing maintenance teams. We need to look at the State as...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...and which would, I am sure, have agreement on all sides of the House. I am referring to recommendation 52.5.b on the raising of income limits for access to social housing supports and the cost rental scheme. The limits were reviewed a couple of years ago but they are out of date. In the last week, councillor Brendan Ryan and I have spoken to people who may not be able to take a job...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...units in housing developments can no longer be bulk-purchased by institutional investors in a manner that causes displacement of individual purchasers or social and affordable housing, including cost-rental. What the figures already show is that the introduction of these guidelines to December 2023 has resulted in more than 40,000 homes granted planning permission with conditions...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Staff (28 May 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and rising, and where households have the greatest difficulty finding affordable accommodation. They are intended to moderate the rise in rents in these areas and create a stable and sustainable rental market that allows landlords and tenants to plan financially for their future. However, these current pressures are not unique to any one sector, and therefore a measure such as that...