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

I thank the Deputy. I speak to the chief executive of Fingal County Council very frequently, so I will speak to him about it the next time we have an engagement, which will be shortly.

I have not made a decision yet as to whether bedsits are coming back.

On the issue of senior citizens complexes and conversions for disabilities and extensions for overcrowding, I have just announced an additional €12 million for that for local authorities. I am meeting with the Simon Community shortly to look at a couple of units that it has that might prove to be a very good model to roll out elsewhere.

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