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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of renters availing of the renter's tax credit in 2022 and to date in 2023, with a breakdown by county and an average credit paid in each county. [35359/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 355. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the IDA began supporting companies to set up data centres in the State. [35116/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to lose my time to ensure that homeowners get to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will take this slot and Deputy Conway-Walsh will take the first Sinn Féin slot in the next round. I thank all of the witnesses for attending the committee, for being so frank and giving us information, particularly Ms Hone and Ms Hegarty. It must be incredibly frustrating to have to tell our committee the same things as last time. Please do not think it is not valuable or important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will ask for information on that in the next session, if that is okay. I am just conscious that I want to let Ms Hegarty and Dr. Cleary in and we have a minute and a half left. I am genuinely very sorry. We will come back to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Finally, I ask Dr. Cleary to comment on Clare inclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank our guests for being in front of us. I was saying to committee members during the interval that given the scale of the financial commitment underpinning this scheme and the large number of families and homeowners it is affecting, as well as tenants in the private and social housing sectors, it would be useful if this committee as a matter of course every six months does a session...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Regarding the issue of foundations, if core testing by the Housing Agency and engineers starts to find that it is a problem, part of the difficulty is that this is not covered under the grant, whatever the grant is. Will those reports also have the scope to be able to make recommendations to Government regarding changing the legislative basis of the scheme from a policy point of view in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Regarding the transitional arrangements for those who were stuck in stage one, because there now appears to be flexibility which did not exist then, applicants are obviously going to the Housing Agency. What is the expectation and timeline for decisions on those applications based on discussions with the agency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Martina Hegarty, who gave testimony, lives in a terrace of three. Her end house and the other end house are both in the scheme but the middle house is not eligible for the scheme because the house is not affected by pyrite. That is obviously a very precarious position because there will be two new houses, given the end houses are going to be demolished and rebuilt, that are going to rest on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That means that on the testing question, the Department has not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Ó Coigligh is saying it does not have to be refused. There is a flexible approach from the local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do the local authorities take the same view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the other three?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good if Mr. Ó Coigligh wrote to the committee on that point. It is quite important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know it is in the guidance but it is not in the statutory instrument.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about SR 325?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Pyrite Resolution Board had a good practice. I do not know if it happened biannually or quarterly but there was a standard reporting mechanism, which was useful. I am very keen for us to have the six-month report in the first instance but replicating the Pyrite Resolution Board's approach in respect of this scheme would be exceptionally useful.