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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The jury is out at this point on whether there will be any actual substance. On the basis of this motion it does not seem to be the case. It has nine demands, none of which has any specifics. There are no targets or costings and the idea that setting up an agency, which would take at least a year to do, is any quicker than what the Government has proposed is absolutely absurd. It...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----I took the time to table what it actually delivered on-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What it actually-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What Fianna Fáil actually did-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind the interruptions. Let us look at Fianna Fáil's record. Over those 14 years, it delivered on average 5,500 real social houses a year. That is less than the current Government is delivering. During that same period of time, the number of subsidised private rental tenancies for social housing actually increased. They increased beyond recognition. By the end of the...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What I would like to hear from Deputy O'Brien, whether it is today, later on in the debate or between now and budget time, is what increasing capital investment he would like to see in budget 2019-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and what specific targets and specific interventions. Sinn Féin will not be supporting the motion. We have tabled an alternative set of proposals which are based on what we have done in the past in the costed delivery of social and affordable housing. The measures are very clear. Our view is there needs to be a doubling of capital investment by the State in the delivery of...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind the interruptions.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What we also need is for the Government to immediately introduce the affordable scheme it has been talking about. We are happy to work with it to ensure it has the right design. It needs to deliver homes, not at €320,000, but for families between €35,000 and €75,000 a year at genuinely affordable prices. That is somewhere between €170,000 and €280,000....

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was beginning to get worried there. There was so much the Minister said I was agreeing with, I thought something had changed radically.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us see if I can change that.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will start with some disagreements with the Minister. The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, started by stating that the broken housing system is now being fixed. The problem, of course, is the facts tell a very different story. The affordable housing crisis is, in fact, getting worse. House prices are rising, rents across the country are rising, home repossessions are increasing and...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not for the Dáil to get into the details of either scheme. Rather, this is a matter for the communities concerned and their local elected representatives and the councils. They are unique sites on which there is strong local community involvement. There is strong political consensus in both areas for the proposals we are putting forward. The Minister of State's reply is...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State knows we have been strongly critical of the land initiative model being used elsewhere in the city and country. This originated at a time when capital budgets were more constrained and local authorities were desperately trying to find some way to fund public housing. That is no longer the case and, according to the current senior Minister and his predecessor, money is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroom local authority new build apartments on the basis of costings submitted to his Department by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroomed local authority new build units on the basis of costings submitted by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all in costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit size. [21568/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of recipients of the housing assistance and homeless housing assistance payments by area and household income at the time of entry to the scheme at 12 and 24 months in the scheme as appropriate. [20922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the development of five year strategic plans by each housing and disability steering group. [21322/18]