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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy is misleading the House.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is very disappointing. We never opposed the schemes. We would never mislead the House.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is also not true. Some honesty would be welcome.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some honesty from Government backbenchers would be helpful.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have, several hundred thousand euro more than the Minister's €30 million.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Self-praise is no praise.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true and the Minister knows it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government's ability to rewrite history is remarkable.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing; and when he intends to bring a memo to Cabinet on the issue of the referendum on the right to housing. [49145/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand the Minister has received the final copy of the report from the Housing Commission on the proposed referendum to insert the right to housing in the Constitution. Will the Minister confirm to the House that it is the recommendation of the Housing Commission to hold such a referendum and that it will provide appropriate wording? When will the Minister publish the report? Most...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I join the Minister in commending the Housing Commission on its work on this. All the members of the joint committee are keen to see the report. While the Oireachtas joint committee will have an important role to play, I hope the Minister's intention is not to refer the report of the Housing Commission to our committee to get our advice back to the Government. It would be much better if...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I am aware there is the possibility of a minority report. This is very healthy and I welcome it. Concern has been expressed by some that there have been attempts to politically influence the work of the Housing Commission, not from the Minister or the Department but from the Taoiseach's office. There has also been some very concerning reports about possible...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures the Minister of State is putting in the public domain are factually incorrect. The report on the Department's website indicates that it did not deliver 1,750 affordable homes last year because, in fact, 750 of those were under the first home scheme. They were only approvals. The actual number of drawdowns was 137. The Government set a target last year of 2,000 genuinely...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes delivered by Q3 of 2023 by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the LDA under the affordable housing fund, the cost-rental equity loan and Project Tosaigh. [49144/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the most disappointing aspects of the Minister's tenure has been his failure to deliver genuine affordable homes to rent or buy through local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency, LDA. As the Minister knows, of the 4,400 genuinely affordable homes to which his plan commits, halfway through this year only 123 had been delivered. I accept there is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State. I could have got all of that information from the Department's website before we came to the Chamber. Here is the problem. In the general election, Fianna Fáil promised in its election manifesto to deliver 10,000 genuinely affordable homes every year for five years if it got into government. It promised 6,000 affordable purchase houses through the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an explanation for the ongoing delay in the provision of emergency funding for essential fire safety and other works for homeowners with Celtic Tiger-era building defects; and the reason for the delay with the drafting of the legislation underpinning the full redress scheme. [49143/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sure the Minister will join me in welcoming the representatives of the Not Our Fault 100% Redress campaign in the Gallery, from Counties Dublin and Clare. Can the Minister give us a more precise update, both on when the emergency funding for interim works will be available and on when he intends to publish the legislation, complete the regulations and open the full redress scheme? We...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I am sure the Minister knows, there is a growing frustration among homeowners, as well as among social housing and private rental tenants impacted by Celtic Tiger era defects. We have always said we want to work with the Minister on a collaborative basis and it is an issue the Minister knows many of us in the Opposition have been campaigning on for a long time. The frustration is that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am concerned about the timeline for the legislation. In a number of recent replies to parliamentary questions the Minister has said that the general scheme will be published within the first half of next year. If that is the case then it is likely to conclude somewhere in the first half of next year, before the summer. As we have seen with the enhanced defective blocks scheme, it took a...