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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 120, 121 and 129 together. Housing for All, is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes by 2030. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Management and maintenance of the approximate 140,000 local authority owned social homes is an important issue. In accordance with section 58 of the Housing Act, 1966 local authorities are legally responsible for the management and maintenance of these homes. Local authorities also have a legal obligation to ensure that all of their tenanted properties are compliant with the provisions of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs. The grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant and the Housing Aid for Older People, each of which are 80% funded by my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area are published by my Department in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). See below for links to the 2020 and 2021 summaries. SSHA 2021 www.gov.ie/en/publication/f6119-summary-of-social-housing-as sessments-2021-key-findings/ SSHA 2020...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The information requested by the Deputy is not held by my Department. The oversight and practical management of housing waiting and transfer lists is a matter for each local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated Social Housing Assessment Regulations.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department's role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless services rests with individual housing authorities. My Department does not fund any homeless service directly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The details of all approved social housing construction programmes are published quarterly in the Social Housing Construction Status Report. This report provides details of all social housing developments, which are under construction, have been completed or are at various stages of the design and pre-tender process in each local authority at the end of 2021. The report is available at the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is responsible for meeting the immediate and short-term accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from the conflict in Ukraine. Meanwhile, my Department is focusing on the medium and long-term accommodation challenges and is leading cross-government efforts through a Housing Taskforce established by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All, is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes by 2030. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: This is Sinn Féin's policies. Sinn Féin states it will deliver "the largest public housing building programme in the history of the State." We are actually doing it. How Deputy Ó Broin was saying Sinn Féin will do it is by bringing total capital spend to €2.8 billion per year. We are putting in €4 billion per year, €1.2 billion more than Sinn Féin.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Now let us talk about affordability. The Affordable Housing Act 2021 is in place. We have published the affordable purchase regulations. It is open. There will be people in affordable purchase homes this year. Deputy Ó Broin has neglected to mention Project Tosaigh and the delivery through the LDA. We will have hundreds of affordable purchase homes this year and hundreds more cost...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: They will not be eligible.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: We will not do this again, will we, a Cheann Comhairle? Deputy Ó Broin, as he behaved last week, is consistently interrupting.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin's plan is there as well. It does not address any capacity issues. We must be realistic in what can be delivered. It is important one is open, honest and realistic with people. What we have detailed for each local authority, and agreed with each of them, is their direct delivery and that does not include LDA delivery, Part 5 delivery and first home shared equity delivery.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: What have we targeted? The real target, not the targets that have come out of the mouths of Sinn Féin, that we have set between this and then is 29,000 affordable homes between now and 2026. This is happening already. How do we do that? We need to increase supply and, to respond to Deputy Gould, it is a problem when people continually object to housing. That is just a reality.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Let us see what is really happening out there. Let us look at the figures with regards to increased housing supply. In the first quarter of this year, there were 5,669 new homes completed. There were 34,846 commencement notices received in the 12 months to February this year. It was the single biggest number of commencement notices in a 12-month period since figures were collated in 2011,...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Carthy was not here last week for the debate on rent-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: -----but the Deputy is carrying on as his colleagues did last week by continually interrupting me.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I respect this Chamber and always have. Deputy Carthy may not, and that is fine. What I would say to Deputy Carthy is that his own party's spokesperson, in an article recently, talked about negotiating with developers and flipping developments, but Deputy Ó Broin will put in place a strict price control. Then Deputy Ó Broin will move people out of commercial construction with...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: One has got to build capacity. That is why the Housing for All plan has already brought back the capacity of the construction sector to pre-pandemic levels and will create at least 29,000 new jobs. Some 9,000 new apprenticeships, in the 12 months to date, have already been filled in that space. That is how one does it. One must be open and honest with people. One must realise, by the...