Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If I had time for mindfulness, I would definitely take it. I have to be careful that people do not misrepresent me. I did not mean to get tetchy with the Senator, and perhaps there was some confusion over the language. The Deputy knows how people can jump on something and blow it up into something that is not correct. I have a duty of care here for the work that is being done in this area, and I have to be careful of that.

We have put many of the recommendations that came from that committee into the work that was put into Rebuilding Ireland. That work continues, and we continue to analyse it. The Deputy mentioned things like transport for people who are in emergency accommodation. We provide that through Leap cards, among other things, and I made sure that was going to be in place for the beginning of the school term this year.

HAP is working. Some 350 HAP tenancies are secured every week, which adds up to 17,00 this year. It does work, but we know that we need to roll out and have more place finders because we know that they are a good resource to help HAP work even better. We will do that.

I look forward to seeing the proposal about the site in Blanchardstown but I have not seen anything yet.

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