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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is coming to the end of his third year in office. On the basis of the data we have, for him to suggest he is making progress is genuinely delusional. Since he has been Minister, house prices have increased by over 20% and are higher now than they have ever been in modern times. Rents have increased by 23% and are still rising. Again, they are the highest they have been in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My questions are short so I will go through them quickly if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I am not looking for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it about equity or grant aid? Does it have Commission approval?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, the Minister does not know whether it will be based on equity or grant aid at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will so long as the Minister answers it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have asked a very simple question. Is it based on equity or grant aid? The straight answer is that the Minister does not know yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, the Minister does know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am genuinely not being adversarial but I have asked two very specific questions. Is it based on grant aid or equity? Does it have Commission approval?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, the Minister announced this scheme without having designed it. Is that what he is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister answer the specific questions I have asked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has not been decided is what the Minister is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: When will the Minister decide which it will be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My questions are very specific. The Minister is going to announce the details in July.