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- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: It comes out of A3.
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. Again, that is a little bit like the development levy waiver. It is under social housing but it is for land acquisition rather than for the building of the homes. Is that it?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: No, it is okay. Just so I can understand it, there is a land acquisition fund, to which money was allocated this year and in previous years. Which subhead does this funding fit under? Is the Minister saying it is under A3, local authority housing?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: Okay, but let us take the example of a local authority drawing down money from A3 for a building project. There would be a land element to that and that makes complete sense. Separately, however, funding was set aside. The former Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, brought a Supplementary Estimate in his last year where, because there had been an underspend in the building of social homes...
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: Would that be in the agency's subhead here or in a separate account?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: That is really helpful. I have a couple of small points to pick up on pieces of the REV. The last time we spoke about State regeneration, one of the points I made to the Minister was that Dublin City Council, in terms of its proposals for the refurbishment of flat blocks from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, which are some of the poorest quality rental accommodation in the State, had been told...
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, it is a legal requirement under one of the national policy objectives of the NPF. There is an explicit NPF obligation that regeneration funding has to be linked to an increase in density, although that is very unhelpful. Even insofar as requiring no reduction in density, Dublin City Council has been told that is a requirement for specific developments. I know there is some...
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of quick things to cover. I very much welcome the transfer of responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 and the Property Services Regulatory Authority to the Minister's Department. It is where it should always have been. It means that we can, hopefully, do some work on it. The Act is outdated and not fit for purpose. In the context of it being here in the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister refers to the Department of justice's piece, what is that, for our information?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: The Department of justice is going to finish its review and the Minister is saying it might then make some legislative changes on foot of that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: Would the Minister be hopeful that he might initiate his element of that review next year? Is it in a spreadsheet or calendar somewhere? Does he have a notion of when that might start?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: I am out of time but I will come back in the next round.
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: I have more, but-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: While we are on legislation, the comprehensive multi-unit development defects scheme and the legislation for that are relevant to the REV, in that that area of expenditure is ultimately going to increase and require the legislation. Is it the Minister's intention to bring a general scheme or a completed Bill forward and is there a timeline for that?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: And pretty much every other county, unfortunately.
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: To say the least.
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good to know first of all if it is going to be a general scheme or a Bill, and when. On the pathfinders and also the pilot scheme for the retrospective payments, which is coming out of the €118 million, am I right in saying that no money has still actually been drawn down on any of the pathfinders because of some of those challenges?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025) Eoin Ó Broin: On the pilot for the retrospective payments, am I correct that no money has been drawn down on that side either?