Results 4,381-4,400 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: I want to go through three of those because they are significant. I want to go through the €220 million underspend in social housing for local authorities, the €24 million underspend in defects and the €70 million underspend in the affordable housing fund. I accept the Minister is reallocating that money elsewhere, and I will come to that. Am I correct to say that the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: Yes-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: It is just that I only have a few minutes, and I want to understand the document.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: A significant number of local authority new builds will not conclude this year and therefore the money is being moved elsewhere.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: I am literally coming to that question if the Minister will give me the opportunity. There is €220 million for local authority new builds, for which the local authorities will not meet their targets. The Minister is therefore moving that money to a number of other subheads. Where exactly is that €220 million going? The Minister said the-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: He has not gone through it in the way I am asking. There is an underspend of €220 million in the delivery of new build social housing by local authorities. I want to know exactly where that €220 million is going, first of all. Second, where it is going, will it increase the output in those areas of just cover increased costs? The Minister has represented the capital...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: Will we get more CAS units this year than were originally targeted and how many?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: The CAS output will be bigger than the original target.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: That is accepted and read. I have two quick additional questions. A third of the defects budget has not been spent. The Minster knows there is huge demand for the emergency funding. How come some of that money has not been made available for that emergency funding, and will any emergency funding be made available this year? The €70 million underspend in the affordable housing fund...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking if it will be actually below the target.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: That would not be hard.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: Will it be substantially behind this year's target?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: It is below as two thirds of the funding is being withdrawn.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister knows it is a straight question. There is a target for affordable purchase funds this year and €90 million was given for it. The Minister is now taking €70 million of that out. That means he is surely significantly behind that target.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: It is the Estimates I am asking about.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: It is and the Minister will not answer the question.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: I have been incredibly restrained during this session-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: ----but the Minister is still not answering my questions.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Eoin Ó Broin: That is not relevant to the question.