Results 6,441-6,460 of 25,799 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: No.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: All of this remains within A, within housing. On local authority housing, there will be a real allocation from the direct build from the local authorities. There will be a reallocation on the mortgage to rent-----
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: I was just going through it before the Deputy came back in, so he might let me do that. I will go specifically through each of the items that have been reallocated. The Deputy knows where we are reallocating to. On local authority housing, there will be a reallocation.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: We have not outspent. The last quarter is obviously a very heavy quarter for housing delivery, so we have to be aware of that too. I cannot be too specific with the Deputy but I am telling him-----
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: I am going to tell the Deputy where we are going to reallocate from. Just let me conclude this and he can come back in. To look at A3 on local authority housing and A10 on mortgage to rent, and there will be a very small reallocation on housing for people with disabilities and older people-----
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: It is A14. For A15, again, there is a very small adjustment there.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: Do you not have that?
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: That is A22.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: That is the repair and lease scheme, which is minute. For argument’s take, I want to go back to where we are increasing. As I mentioned, there will be a reallocation within the affordable housing fund to the land fund so we can buy land for affordable housing. There will be a reallocation from the Croí Cónaithe fund. We have got our first three Croí Cónaithe...
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: I understand the point. I will come back in on the supplementaries.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: Excuse me, I am afraid I missed that. I ask the Deputy to start again.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: It will be in that region. It is being redistributed.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: It does, but we still have the last period.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: Exactly, because we still have the rest of November and December and the last two months, in particular, are very strong months for claims to come in and for moneys to be spent. The Deputy should remember that this is on a multi-annual basis too, so we have carryover from last year into this year. What I will say very clearly is that there will be no surrender this year. The spend is very...
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: They are Estimates. That is what we are here for: Estimates.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: We are actually not in the same situation. I take the Deputy’s point but a number of stakeholders deliver social housing. The reallocation to CAS is significant. There is €80 million additional to CAS because we are looking at where we can deliver homes this year and where the pipeline is coming through. In some local authorities there has been slower delivery while others...
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: There was.
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: Last December, €125 million was transferred to the Housing Agency and-----
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: The Housing Agency, as I said in my opening statement, has informed me that in quarter 1 – literally in a matter of months – €85 million has been effectively spent and €35 million-----
- 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) Darragh O'Brien: Then I do not understand. I am saying to the Deputy that-----