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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be very quick. I have a reply here from Galway City Council. In reply to the questions I posed, the council said in October that the clients are still categorised as homeless but not being housed in emergency accommodation. I am confused because people are either homeless or not homeless. My question is whether the people we are discussing are homeless. I have a reply here from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not the question. Are they homeless or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking if they are homeless or not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are they homeless or not? It is a reasonable question to ask

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The letter from Galway County Council states that "these clients are still categorised as homeless". Ms Hurley is saying the council is wrong and should not be putting this information into the public arena. This is what all of the local authorities told us. They are telling us that in their view, the people in question are homeless but the Department is saying that they are not. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are they still on PASS but categorised as something else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Professor O'Sullivan consider that there is a reason the recategorisation has happened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does he have confidence in the figures going forward on the basis on which they are currently being collated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a "No"; he does not have confidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Without that qualification, has Professor O'Sullivan confidence in them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before I move on to the two reports, I will make a final comment on the homeless numbers and urge the Department to consider the proposal I raise. It is clear from all of the evidence that there is no longer the consensus or agreement among the different sectors that was presented previously. The best course of action would be for the Department to convene the homeless consultative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What could we, either as a committee or a Government, do about that situation even on an emergency and temporary basis? I refer, for example, to the Focus Ireland amendment to restrict vacant possession notices to quit for buy-to-let landlords who availed of those tax breaks or other policy measures that could be put in place to stop that flow. We are all conscious that the flow is too...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Hurley has to come back first. There were some questions for her.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person transfers from invalidity pension to partial capacity in order to take-up casual employment, the flexibilities there are in terms of payment of weeks in which little or no working hours have been secured. [46360/18]

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2:

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody is suggesting that HBFI should lend at rates below market rates. I refer to giving HBFI the flexibility that it may act and lend at more competitive rates but still allowing for a commercial rate of return. The Minister of State's point does not deal with that. On the substantive point, I would much prefer to be tabling amendments to section 7. I am prohibited from doing that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Data (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy grant applications received; the number of applications that reached claim stage; and the number of claims approved under the help-to-buy scheme since its inception in July 2016. [46007/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of buy and renew units delivered to date in 2018; and the average cost for each unit. [46002/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes brought into use to date in 2018 via the repair and lease scheme; and the average cost of each unit. [46003/18]