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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sorry to disappoint the Ceann Comhairle by speaking solely to the Bill. To be fair to Deputy McHugh he is speaking to a matter pertinent to the Bill and some absences from Part 7 of the Bill, which I will come to. He raises an important issue and I am glad the Ceann Comhairle gave him the time to do so, because it is absolutely within the scope of the legislation. I start by saying...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would be more than happy to do so. Likewise, I hear people raise legitimate concerns about the lack of clarity for local authorities with respect to wind farms on land. That is not this Department. It is the Department of communications in conjunction with this Department. They have long delayed the release of much anticipated guidelines about wind farms. Sometimes, people find other...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Or An Post.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Heaven forbid.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Never give the warning.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: He did not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to publish his Department's AEV and REV for 2023, including all of the individual spending programmes under each subhead, to publish the AEV for 2024 including all of the individual spending programmes under each subhead; and to give a commitment to publish the REV for 2024 when it is complete including all of the individual...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: After the budget each year, the Department produces an abridged Estimates Volume, which not only lists the headings for each of the functions of the Department but also the amounts allocated to each spending item. By the end of the year that document is revised into what is called a Revised Estimates Volume which has an updated figure. In previous years I have been given some of that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Clearly the Minister of State is very confused and does not understand what I am asking for. This is what I am asking for. Every single year since 2018 I have either written to the Secretary General of the Department or put in a parliamentary question requesting a breakdown not just of how much housing gets, heritage gets and local government gets, but every individual spending programme....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is completely missing the point. I am not saying he should give me information before it is agreed. I am saying that last year there was an abridged Estimates Volume with all of this detail and there was then a Revised Estimates Volume which was amended. I want him to publish both of those documents from last year. This year after the budget, an abridged Estimates...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, not with the individual spending items for spending programmes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not published in the format that I am asking for. It does not have all the information.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are not the same documents.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The FOI is for documents already agreed the Minister of State will not publish.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The idea that the very small number of affordable purchase and affordable cost-rental homes that have been delivered over three years is delivery at scale is laughable. The numbers speak for themselves. We had a discussion about this last night. It is very interesting that in his first response, the Minister of State talked about several thousand homes being delivered through the first...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What the Minister of State left out from that list of figures is the affordable home equity stake the State acquires, which has to be paid back. I am not disputing that the figures given are the prices at the point of purchase but anybody who purchases one of those homes also has to repay the shared equity portion at a future point. They can do that either with a lump sum or on transfer or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes delivered via the Affordable Housing Fund, the Cost Rental Equity Loan and Project Tosaigh by the end of Q3 of this year; and to estimate the number of homes that will be delivered via these schemes by the end of the year. [54357/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: As of quarter 2 this year only 123 affordable homes had been delivered through the Government's affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan and Project Tosaigh. The quarter 3 figures should have been published some time ago. I believe they are with the Department. Will the Minister of State tell us the quarter 3 figures for those three crucial schemes, which are the affordable...