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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will refer to the previous question asked about land acquisition. Are you saying the local authority ran out of land to build affordable purchase homes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: What is the split between affordable purchase and affordable rental homes from Waterford's perspective?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I have run out of time. I call Deputy Leddin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: You will find that in previous meetings, a number of Deputies have slipped in to calling the officials "manager".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy could use an e-bike. The regulations for that are not in yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: To clarify, there is a difference between the derelict sites levies and the zoned lands levies which Deputy O'Donoghue is talking about. I think we are talking about two different processes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I think Deputy O'Donoghue is talking about applications coming forward and the new residential zones tax levy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Deputy O'Donnell is out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: They were good questions. I will continue Deputy O'Donnell's line of questioning, in particular that idea of shopping around and the fact there are other competing interests. That underscores the point I was making earlier about local authorities developing affordable purchase on their own lands, where they act as developer and the builder is the client who builds the homes. That then puts...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The council does have the land but it has prioritised other types of housing for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is fair enough but the council has given very little to affordable purchase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Mixed tenure is crucial and I represent a constituency where that has been the case. To move off that idea of affordable purchase, affordable rental and social delivery, I want to acknowledge the huge amount done by the two local authorities, which, compared to many that have come before us, are doing huge work. I have asked each of the local authorities a question and it is as blunt as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The council needs more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Would it be a fair assessment to say that the constraints on further delivery lie outside the idea of either financial resources or local authority staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: When this Dáil started in February 2020, the only toolbox that the local authorities had was to build social housing. If the council was going to build a development, that is all it could provide and everybody in that estate was going to be earning less than €42,000, and the limit was lower again in some parts of the country. Inevitably, the only tool available to the councils...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I got the impression from Ms Curley’s answer that the councils do not yet have an affordable purchase scheme in place. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I mean a selling scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is the word I was looking for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I warn Deputies that we have reached the end of the rota. Rather than go through a new circle, I will ask for lámha suas from anybody else who wants to come in. With regard to voids, the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, issued its report on Friday, and Limerick had a 56-week waiting time for voids and in Waterford it was 31 weeks. Rather than me editorialising, I will...