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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and I thank Mr. Taaffe and Ms Leech for their presence. Given the importance of social and affordable housing, it is fitting that our first public session is dealing with it. I acknowledge the significant volume of work the witnesses and their teams do, particularly council staff on the front line of tackling the housing and homelessness crisis and working with families in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support that but another way of doing it is more design and build. Currently when the Department reports to us, it lumps in turnkeys with design and builds. Is there an argument for separating those two out so that where a builder comes to a local authority or AHB with the intention of doing a solely social or social and affordable project, it is categorised as design and build...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: My point is a different one. Turnkey is typically something that started life as a private development. When it got planning permission, it was conceived as a private development. Design and build, while it might originate with a builder-developer, starts life as a conversation between that builder-developer and an AHB or local authority. Should we differentiate between those? They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is only a minute left. What about staffing numbers and single-stage approval?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that just for social? What about the affordable delivery?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the single-stage approval process exist?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, it is still two separate processes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The CCMA made a strong case, and rightly so, for a single point of decision-making rather than a single point for application. Would it not be simpler if there was a single senior team to deal with those schemes rather than a person, who is probably a junior PO, having to refer back to the social housing and affordable housing separately?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of quick-fire questions for Mr. Taaffe and Ms Leech because there are couple of issues I want to get through quickly. I will pick up on Deputy Hearne's query. The Government has obviously set out social housing targets of an average 12,000 per year each year over its lifetime. We are waiting for the affordable housing targets and I accept there is a different need in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me go through the other questions. I just note that the CCMA has not taken a formal position or made a formal submission on what it thinks the actual need for local authority HB and LDA affordable homes should be over the coming five years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: But it has not taken a view on the affordables.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: No problem. The second thing is tenant in situ. Obviously, there have been significant net cuts in the funding available for social housing acquisitions this year compared with what was spent last year. I know each local authority is going through the assessment of what I call the overhang, which are the applications from 2024 that were paused. However, it seems there is a sizeable number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept the council has to operate within the terms of the circular. I am not disputing that. That is a row I will have with the Minister separately. Am I correct in the figures that, of the overhang of the figure the chief executive gave to TDs, which I think was 70, that currently only 40 of those are still being considered? On some the decision has been made to purchase and some are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of the 30 that are dropping out, does Ms Lynch have, or will she at a later stage give us, a breakdown of how many will be because they were never going to be purchased when the process was completed, versus those that have fallen foul of the new rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. I will go back to an issue Deputy McGrath raised. Last week, when local authority re-lets were being discussed there was some unfortunate language in the Chamber. We heard about dependency culture among local authorities and local authorities looking for handouts. The NOAC report referenced by Mr. Taaffe is clear. It is an average turnaround time of 33 weeks and there is an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are casual re-lets really.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the maximum funding they can request. A local authority cannot go looking for tens of thousands. It can ask for a top-up of €11,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the voids programme, which is funding casual re-lets now, is there a period where each property has to go to the Department for sanction? Is there a turnaround time for that? What happens there?