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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes. As the Deputy knows, we will discuss the Estimates shortly. We have provided €242 million for the provision of emergency accommodation and services. As I have said, if we require more funding, we will get more for this year. Our big focus is on additional supply, as I mentioned earlier to the colleagues seated beside Deputy Gould, and we brought in additional supply,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Every case is different. I chaired the North Dublin Regional Drug and Alcohol Task Force for ten years, and I have dealt with people who are in addiction. There are difficulties that addiction can pose to people's own lives, their housing situation and so on. There is no question that anyone who is suffering from addiction or going through addiction services and support should never be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Is the person on the housing list?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Is she on the housing list?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Rather than hold up the meeting with this specific case, if Deputy Gould provides us with the details, I will be happy to look at them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy can contact me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Saying that does not build the homes. We had ten years of undersupply. We have brought forward a new plan that we are funding on a multi-annual basis. We have built 110,000 homes since 2020 even through a pandemic, two construction shutdowns and a war in Ukraine. We are building the most social homes since 1975. Of course, we want to, and will, do more. However, the Deputy says that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No, I am not. This is a committee meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Gould wants to come in and get a soundbite. We have been trying to go through Housing for All and to look at the various initiatives. People have different views about what is working and some people might believe that some aspects are not working. I can get into a back and forth on the politics with the Deputy. I could ask why Sinn Féin does not have a housing alternative....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy and I can go back and forth as often as he wants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Will the Deputy repeat that? I missed it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will deal with the homeless question and the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, will deal with the board, to which I made reference earlier. I mentioned homelessness in my opening statement and the Deputy asked about exits from homelessness. The exits we track are into tenancies. I want to be clear on that point. The exit may be to a housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancy, an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am saying that the exits we track and that I publish are exits into tenancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The quarterly reports that are published show exits into tenancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is absolutely the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Does the Deputy look at the quarterly reports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The exits that we track and publish are exits into tenancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I have said it and have been clear. The Deputy was disputing the point earlier and I have clarified the situation. Does Deputy Ó Broin find homelessness funny?