Dáil debates
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]
1:10 pm
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I move amendment No. 1:
To delete all words after “calls on the Government to:” and substitute the following:
“— at least, double the capital investment in the public housing provision for Budget 2019, to dramatically increase the delivery of social and affordable homes on public land and in mixed-income and mixed-tenure estates;
— amend Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, to deliver 20 per cent social and affordable housing in private developments, and 30 per cent social and affordable housing in strategic development zones;
— immediately introduce an affordable rental and purchase housing scheme to be rolled out by local authorities for households on incomes between €35,000 and €75,000 in this budgetary year;
— ensure that local authorities have adequate staff to deliver an ambitious programme of public housing and reduce the approval and procurement timeframe from 18 months to 6 months to ensure speedy delivery of new homes;
— fast-track the legislation for the establishment of Home Building Finance Ireland and target the fund at small and medium builders developing affordable housing;
— take a more proactive approach to the use of finance from credit unions, to assist the delivery of social and affordable homes;
— develop a coherent plan in partnership with the approved housing body sector to reverse the Eurostat decision to reclassify Approved Housing Bodies as part of the government sector; and
— ensure that no Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund funding is released to any project that does not deliver genuinely affordable homes at prices between €170,000 and €280,000, depending on the region.”
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