Results 681-700 of 6,937 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Then I will have two further questions after that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: No, they are not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: He or she has gone onto a floor or a couch.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I have two further questions. It simply is not true that the vast majority of exits are into permanent, secure tenancies; that is not the case. Approximately half the exits are back into precarious situations with people back to sleeping on floors, couches, sometimes ending up in hospital and so forth. To give the impression that the vast majority of people exiting emergency accommodation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: There are a lot of recommendations in the Housing Commission report in a number of key areas but one of the key arguments is that the housing deficit needs to be addressed and that there needs to be a delivery unit to do that. When the Minister published the report he was quite dismissive of that recommendation. He did say he would take a closer look at it. Is that still his position? He...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The question was really on the delivery unit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: How long will the work the Housing Agency is doing take to complete?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Is there a timeframe on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Finally, I just want to ask about the development levies being waived. Is that funded or is that just not funded? Are the levies needed for infrastructure lost altogether or is there replacement funding for them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Were the paid in full?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I earlier raised a point about exits from homelessness. The quarterly report published by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The quarterly reports by the DRHE provide more than the number of exits into secure housing tenancies. The reports on local authority homeless performance published by the Department give a detailed breakdown of exits from homelessness and show that a considerable number of people do not move into secure housing tenancies but back into precarious situations. I am sure the Minister is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The homeless performance reports that the Department publishes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Does that include in the local authority homeless performance reports published by the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: They are not in the Department's-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I will print off a copy of a report and show it to the Minister the next time I see him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: That is not the case in respect of the local authority homeless performance reports.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: On the steering group that is examining the resourcing of planners, is the Irish Planning Institute, which represents the professional planners in both the public and private sectors, represented on that steering group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: It is interdepartmental. Will that steering group engage with them?