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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: We do not have projections for the coming months, but if we look at when notices to quit are issued, they do not directly correlate into homelessness figures. The same number of notices to quit do not exactly match the numbers going into emergency homeless accommodation. There is movement within the market already. As I said earlier, we have a made a difficult decision, but it is the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for raising this most important issue. As he will know, I received Government approval on 18 January to draft legislation to establish supports for the remediation of fire safety, structural safety and water ingress defects in purpose-built apartment buildings, including duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013. I know the Deputy agrees that the legislation we need...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: As the Deputy will know, the Government decision is focused directly on multi-unit developments, apartments and duplexes initially, because that is where the predominance of the issue is. We have to focus, first and foremost, on fire safety because that is public safety. I can say, and I am happy to say it on the record of the Dáil again, that retrospective costs that deal with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: First, we used the pause and the time given through the eviction moratorium to ramp up additional supply. I will give the Deputy some specific figures and while they are approximations, they are close to the verified figures which we will have very soon. In quarter four of last year we delivered about 5,000 new social housing builds. We brought back about 1,500 voids in that period. We...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Just to remind the Deputy, his parliamentary question does not relate to this at all. The question he tabled makes no reference to what he has raised this morning but I am quite happy to answer because we made the right decision. It was a difficult decision but one that is in the best public interest in the medium term. That is what one has to do in government. One cannot just make...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I have answered, very clearly, Deputy Ó Broin's question, albeit not the question he tabled, and am happy to answer it. We have a responsibility to make sure that we work towards a functioning private rental sector. The Deputy knows why the Government took this difficult-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Do not interrupt-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: We have provided-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Can I be allowed to answer the question?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: What I am saying to Deputy Ó Broin----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy may not want to listen to the answer but I have given him the answer, very clearly. We have ramped up significantly additional accommodation through social housing new builds of more than 5,000 in the last quarter of last year and over 1,800 in the first two months of this year. More than 600 homes have been purchased since July and-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: For many reasons. It is not as simple as that and the Deputy knows it-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----but it does not suit his narrative.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: We have made a responsible decision in the interests of the public.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank Deputy Smith for the question. As he knows, the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Act 2022 was a time-limited enactment which provided for a stay on eviction notices up to 31 March 2023, with deferred tenancy terminations taking effect over a staggered period from 1 April to 18 June 2023. In terms of the longer term, my Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: In implementing the key objectives under Housing for All, each local authority has prepared a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery from 2022 to 2026. 18 local authorities with a strong and identified affordable housing need, including both Cork City Council and Cork County Council, were also set affordable housing delivery targets and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: In implementing the key objectives under Housing for All, each local authority has prepared a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery from 2022 to 2026. Local authorities with a strong affordable housing need, including both Meath and Louth County Council, were also set affordable housing delivery targets and asked to include planned...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Government is committed to meeting the needs of everyone by increasing the supply of homes through our Housing for All Plan. Since October 2022, over 5,000 new build social homes were delivered, over 500 homes were acquired by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies, and over 600 homes were delivered through leasing programmes. In January, we increased the social housing income...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Further to work commissioned by the Department, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) published a report into structural housing demand in Ireland to 2040, in December 2020. The ESRI’s research projected an annual new household demand figure for each county from 2016 to 2040, for a number of different development scenarios, including the National Planning Framework (NPF)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 101 and 124 together. Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022-2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). Under Housing for All, there...