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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank our guests for their presentations. It is important to say that we organised this hearing, which is one of two we have planned, because almost everybody on the committee shares the concern that all of our guests have raised today. We are all out and about and are talking to SME builders, buyers, materials suppliers and to our local authorities and in the past year in particular,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: From that information, what was the percentage increase not just in the hard costs but in all in-development costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously, that will bring to bear a huge pressure because, compared with the private sector, a 10% or 15% increase in construction costs will have a much bigger impact on public spending, which in turn will have a huge impact on meeting social and affordable targets if that filters in by the end of the year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that point, one of the problems with apartments is our 10 m restriction in respect of cross-laminated timber etc. Is it time we started having a conversation about changing those regulations? We see in other jurisdictions that where they can embrace the full range of new building technologies, they can get cost savings, but we are limited by that regulation, surely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I emphasise that the purpose of these sessions is to find solutions. There will be an outcome to this, in case our guests are wondering why they are sitting here answering our questions for two or three hours. Part of this is about us as a committee writing to the Minister to try to convey some of the urgency that all three organisations are outlining. I might make a couple of general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope Mr. Taaffe realises he might have a defamation case against the accusation that he is working in the Custom House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would be a 10% increase in construction costs but a 5% increase on the all-in costs because of the harder half of the all-in costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree with Mr. Taaffe. He and I worked on an SDZ in south Dublin. I think it is a good one but it took two years. Is there a way of taking that principle and accelerating it, maybe by not doing them on such a grand scale or having options? Landowners are being told there is nothing they can do for two years while there is a public consultation process. They have to engage and design...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would any of the witnesses like to comment on the point I made at the start? We were talking about a gap between affordability and viability. We are now talking about a different gap, and we have to be honest that it is between the market price and a higher all-in development cost. If one looks at the document that has been circulated to industry by the Housing Agency, it states what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make a quick point and leave time for Deputies Gould and O’Callaghan. The short-term gains have to be on both the public and private sides. Regarding soft costs, developers’ margins and VAT are roughly the same quantum in terms of the impact on the overall cost of a private sector unit. The private sector would probably be smarter if it advocated for burden sharing...

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is fitting, on National Biodiversity Week, an initiative run by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, that we are having these important statements on the new strategic action plan. Like other speakers, I want to start by not just commending the Minister of State for the action plan itself, but by making a very clear statement that if it was not for the Minister of State's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the public service benchmarking exercise used in bundles 1 and 2 of the social housing public private partnerships. [25492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (19 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of IS 465 is expected to be complete; and if the enhanced defective block remediation scheme can be open to applications prior to the completion of the NSAI review of IS 465. [25493/22]

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We absorbed the Deputy's time.

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and his colleagues in the Social Democrats for tabling this important motion, which Sinn Féin enthusiastically supports. In my six short years in the Dáil, Croí Cónaithe cities is the craziest housing scheme any Minister with responsibility for housing has brought before us. It is nothing short of a pro-developer subsidy. There is no...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: First Stage (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: First Stage (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend section 38 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) to require estate agents and online platforms to only advertise properties that are compliant with the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019. As Deputies know, the crisis in the private rental sector...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is because they do not have inferior design standards for apartment building there.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach is provoking me.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, prior to their retrofitting under the warmer homes scheme in 2021; the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, after their retrofitting under the warmer homes scheme in 2021, in tabular form [24845/22]