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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average time it takes to process and decide on an additional needs payment at the Finglas Social Welfare office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49468/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The Senator voted for cost rental.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will try to avoid the trap some of the previous speakers have fallen into in directing questions to the manager. We all have the habit of calling Mr. Keegan the manager. It shows the length of time some of us have been on local authorities. Some of us have come from local authorities in just the last Dáil term. The pipeline both local authorities have put in front of us is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is useful and Mr. Keegan is talking about retention but I want to ask about sanctioned posts between both local authorities. No more than 20 staff have been requested between them. Is that fair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Curran believes that DLRCC has the staff resources in place and it is about filling and recruiting for those posts now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will turn to the affordable models we use, particularly the council-led affordable purchase model. There are many people out there who just do not understand how that works. From an empty site to the point where somebody would purchase an affordable home, what is the financial calculation for a local authority in doing that? Where is the money coming from and what is the final input into...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: On St. Joseph's Hill or Balbutcher, which are sites I mentioned, DCC will be selling houses at below the cost of construction? If the cost comes in at €400,000, DCC will be selling them, with the affordable housing fund, at €300,000. Is DCC's concern how much it can procure houses for, even before the higher discount?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is even with the State subsidising the costs by €100,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I ask Mr. Curran to respond to that point on affordable purchase because we have not focused on it yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I have a question about cost rental. Will Dublin City Council be in the business of providing cost rental or will it leave it to AHBs predominantly? The same question is for Dún Laoghaire. All of the viability issues spoken of earlier for apartments and so on feed into that. Is there an opportunity for us to avail of some of the build-to-rent developments that have been given...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Build to rent-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: For cost rental?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: This has been a very useful discussion, especially with regard to the issue of cost. In the course of the discussion, somebody texted me to say that the costs are exorbitant. They really are. That is something we are going to have to examine. In a position where the State is effectively acting as the developer, where there are no land costs and no developer's premium, where the State is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: What element or percentage of the cost is in the energy rating component of the house?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I am not suggesting reducing that is an option. My point is that in the past we were not putting those bigger societal costs on individuals when they purchased a home. They had much lower-spec homes. Now when purchasing a home, they are purchasing their own home but they are also paying a higher price as a result of meeting these greater societal demands for climate action, which we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I remember one development plan meeting where we talked about standards. Someone said we could pass a law in the morning saying everybody should have €500 shoes but nobody would have any shoes. We are in a very difficult area where it is now so expensive just to construct housing that affordability is always going to be a factor in that environment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The point is that it has a cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Private developers are able to have a lower all-in cost than local authorities.