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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I completely agree with that. I tabled a parliamentary question on the matter some weeks ago. The reply details the average construction and all-in developmental costs over the past 12 months for one, two, three and four bedroom houses and apartments of various sizes and indicates that the average build cost for the houses is €140,000. I do not dispute the figures given by Mr. Kenny...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I said seven months, not seven years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the voids, we have had Mary from the Department discussing this and we have been around the houses. My understanding is that the bulk of them are casual vacancies; they are just the ones that cost over €40,000 to refurbish because of the lack of cyclical maintenance. Am I to take it from Mr. Kenny's report that those 800 units are the re-lets that are coming out through that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me ask the question in another way. In the 2017 output figures that the Department gave us at the start of this year, telling us about additions to the stock, there were figures for voids including figures for Dublin city. Is Mr. Kenny saying that all the voids Dublin City Council did last year are expensive casual re-lets and that there were no long-term voids among them?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if AHBs are charged development levies by local authorities for social housing new build units; and if so, the amount of levies paid into each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [39124/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is 80,000 families, not people.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We set up a housing and homelessness committee that sat for weeks.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is only embarrassing himself.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That Dáil Éireann:noting that:— Fine Gael have been in office for seven years and during that time homelessness has increased to unprecedented levels, house prices and rents have spiralled out of control, and tens of thousands of households are unable to access secure and affordable homes; — the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not personalised at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It might force the Government to change its course.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Policy after policy, budget after budget, the Minister has received more policy documents from us than he has had-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Never once has Sinn Féin voted down social housing in this city. Never once.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach cannot lie in the Chamber. Sinn Féin has not voted down social housing. Councillors from the Taoiseach's party have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach is lying in the Chamber.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach is misleading the House. He is knowingly misleading the House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has been seven years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is seven years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Slashing expenditure on public housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: For cutting funding on housing.