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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Those figures are very helpful and publishing them quarterly is very good. Drawdowns are equally important because it is a little bit like the local authority mortgages. Figures for applications and approvals are published but not necessarily for drawdowns and it is really drawdowns that matter, particularly if there is a delay on the banking side. Do we have figures for drawdowns for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will that be included in the quarterly figures as they are published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two final questions, one for Ms Timmons and one for Mr. Kehoe. It is about data. One of the big debates is about how many vacant properties we actually have that are appropriate. How close are we to having aggregated data on vacancy, a little bit like they have in Scotland, that give us clarity in terms of what is actually available for potential residential use?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across. My question is a different one which is, in a recommendation the committee made to the Department in a previous report we advocated the model Scotland has where they actually have a topology where they break vacancy up, so it is very clear. There might be X number of vacant properties in a local electoral area but only a portion of those are actually the kind...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: When do we hope to have that database?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Senator Seery Kearney raised a very important question. There is nothing simplistic about it at all. I would be less generous. The use of the derelict sites register is appalling. The record of almost every local authority when it comes to putting sites on the register is very poor. I know local authorities will argue that it might be an ineffective mechanism, is resource-intensive,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: So she expects we will get about 4,000 this year from the seven or eight schemes that are actually about bringing vacant and derelict units back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Ms Timmons run through those figures again? It was 4,000 activation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about on the refurbishment grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do we have a target for how many we expect to be delivered this year across the various schemes? Again, it goes back to the conversation around whether or not there is progress. The only way we can measure progress over a period of time is the actual number of units through each scheme that are brought back into use each year. One of the very frustrating things for many of us is the fact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Here is the frustrating thing. I am not complaining that a new scheme is not performing overnight. Some of these schemes are six or seven years old while others are only a few months old. Under the last and the current housing plan with social housing, we have had annual targets broken down by local authority and by delivery mechanism and it was very easy to track. That is also very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, that is not what I am saying. When the voids programme was initiated, it was a specific intervention to address long-term vacancy in local authority stock and it did a very good job. I have to say that it was a good programme. What has happened over a number of years as local authorities have cleared out their long-term vacancy stock, is that funding from the voids programme has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do the witnesses think four is an appropriate target?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I question even 150. It is an activation programme that will run over a number of years. They will not be delivered this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To initiate, but not to bring into use.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have just had a look at the report but, unfortunately, it only gives percentages rather than numbers. Does Ms Timmons know what the GeoDirectory vacancy and dereliction rate is in Dublin city?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is very important. That is for Dublin county, and it has a whole set of newer suburbs with low vacancy rates, and then a historic city which has very high vacancy rates. Using the percentage for the county, as opposed to the number within the local authority area, would not be my initial point. The second point is that Dublin city does not have pockets. We only have to walk through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be allocated a placement in a special school setting; and the efforts that are being made by her Department and the NCSE to ensure an appropriate placement is available to the person at the earliest opportunity. [28998/23]