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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
...opportunity to present today. As the committee will be aware, Threshold is a national housing charity providing front-line advice and support services to people experiencing difficulties in their rental tenancies. Threshold is concerned with a number of aspects of Part 2 of the general scheme. In setting out these concerns, we put forward recommendations to overcome potential...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: ...Provisions) Bill 2024. I welcome the officials from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. We are joined by Mr. David Kelly, assistant secretary in the homelessness, rental and social inclusion division; Mr. Vincent Colgan and Mr. Liam Murray from approved housing body, AHB, policy and agency governance; Ms Sarah Neary and Mr. John Wickham from the building standards...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
...provide services other than housing, from meeting the eligibility criteria. The amendments also update the definition of the “alleviation of housing need” to remove the extant definition of cost-rental properties and include a definition that reflects the definition in the Affordable Housing Act 2021. The amendments also provide that the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: ...been. To go back to another point, which Deputy Gould raised as well, the figures for HAP are almost equal to the housing list referenced by Mr. Kelly. The HAP is obviously paid for a private rental that is usually State-supported but it is not provide as secure a tenancy or future as a social house. Is there a breakdown of the figures available, similar to the breakdown of the figures...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: ...40% of households in emergency accommodation being from EU-EEA or non-EU-EEA third countries. It is approximately the same percentage as the CSO figure of households living in the private rental sector headed by somebody not born on the island of Ireland, which probably makes sense. The 25% figure is really interesting because that would suggest that, certainly on council lists, there is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: ...come to us after they have been excluded. That includes people born in the island of Ireland whose incomes are just above the threshold for social housing but, because of the crisis in the private rental sector, they end up with a notice of termination, are unable to find an alternative private rental and present as homeless. In fact, in one of the Dublin local authorities some of those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: ...approved housing bodies. It is stated these amendments will provide that the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority can notify and take representations from the Housing Agency regarding cost-rental properties as the administrator of the scheme. Is this in relation to the tenant in situ referral for cost rental?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Mr. Liam Murray: The Affordable Housing Act defines cost rental, and the intention is that any property defined as cost rental and owned by an approved housing body would fall under this. The scheme is managed by the Housing Agency. It goes back to where as it is currently written cancellations or similar requests for information from the regulator must be notified to local authorities....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Protections were brought in for renters last year where the local authority could purchase the house as a social house, or income thresholds might mean someone would be eligible as a cost-rental tenant. Is that part of the tenant in situ protection schemes? Is it where an AHB suddenly has one of these cost-rental houses or is it to do with a scheme of cost-rental houses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Mr. Liam Murray: The intention is that any property designated cost rental if owned by an AHB would fall under this, but the AHB would have to purchase it through the Housing Agency managed fund. If the Housing Agency has overseen the purchase of a cost-rental property through the management of it, the intention is the agency it will receive any notification of any interaction the...