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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Hogan and Ms Timmons for their responses. To reassure them, I take all of the points very seriously and I appreciate the time they have taken to consider them. I agree with them that we need an evidence base and we need to be mindful of unintended consequences, so I am not disregarding either of those points. I have read the 2012 DMK report which underpinned the review of Part...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a commitment on page 19 of the programme for Government in respect of ending the homeless crisis. On page 87 of Rebuilding Ireland, there is a promise to ensure access to free public transport for homeless families. Unfortunately, as the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, knows, families are not just homeless during the school term. It is difficult to understand the reason the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Immigration Policy (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeline for the review and updating of the Employment Permits Act 2006. [25489/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 653. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal will be published; and the action he plans to take arising from the contents of the report. [24851/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Reform (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will initiate a report on the issue of spoilt ballots in view of the high level of spoilt votes in the 2019 local and European elections; and if so, if it will include a survey of all spoils (details supplied). [24852/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the co-living planning regulations will be conducted in view of the likely unintended consequences of such developments. [24880/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Funding (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital assistance scheme, CAS, allocation for 2019 as agreed in budget 2019; the number of applications for CAS funding to date in 2019; the value of the applications; the number of approvals for CAS funding to date in 2019; the value of the applications; the amount of funding remaining from the initial CAS allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for serviced sites funding; the locations and number of units in each application; the value of the applications; the number of applications approved; and the price range agreed with each local authority for the sale price of the properties. [25421/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. A number of us on the committee today are looking to get into the detail of the projects from the Housing Agency perspective. I know the Enniskerry Road project is being developed now. Without straying into policy areas, we also want to try to get a handle on some of the financial modelling on which the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us say the Government wants to reduce rents to between €700 and €900 equivalent to rents in cost rental projects in other European capitals. Is that financially possible without a subsidy by stretching a loan over a longer period or mixing a European Investment Bank or EIB loan with a soft loan from the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Fifty-five?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 55 what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of supplementary questions. To labour the point, on the basis of the Housing Agency's own definition of affordability given at the start, and the generally accepted definition, someone would need a monthly net income of €3,650 or a weekly income of €842. I emphasis that because Enniskerry Road will happen; it is on-site. The next big project will be St....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the repayments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: There would almost be a second tranche of repayments after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that debt outstanding have to be paid as a lump sum or over a period of time? How does it work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the EIB provide that kind of loan finance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The State, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one technical question. To go back to the 25-year EIB loan for St. Michael's, if it had to be paid in full over the 25 years, would that make it difficult to achieve rent below €1,200 a month if the serviced site fund was equivalent to that of Enniskerry Road? Would that be a barrier?