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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to conduct a review or plans revisions to the local government boundaries or distribution of seats within existing boundaries in advance of the 2019 local government elections. [52704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 520 of 5 December 2017, the number of housing first tenancies in existence prior to the launch of Rebuilding Ireland in July 2016; and the number of new housing first tenancies commenced since July 2016 to date in 2017. [53001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Repossessions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of shared ownership loans that have resulted in repossession and the owner losing his or her home in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [53201/17]

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said on the previous occasion Deputy Smith raised this matter, a very simple solution would be to allow local authorities to disregard family income supplement when conducting the means test for social housing. That is already the case in respect of carer's allowance. In my constituency, a working family were €500 a year over the social housing income threshold and were...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In response to a freedom of information request, I received the net social housing need waiting list for all local authorities as of 1 September and the figure was 99,555 households. The Department uses a different methodology for the housing needs assessment it is about to publish, as it did last year, so it is important to outline to the House what is the methodology. The Department is...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they are wrong we are right to question them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have a problem with the numbers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We regularly have a problem with numbers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: All we are asking is for the Minister to tell us the prices and the numbers. It is very simple.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not think €300,000 is affordable.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme for genuinely affordable rental and purchase housing in 2018; and the funding allocated and targets for units to be delivered. [52319/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Thousands of working families and individuals are caught in an affordability trap whereby they can afford neither to rent nor to purchase a home. I have asked on a number of occasions for the Government to outline its definitions of affordable rental and affordable purchase; its targets in this regard for 2018; and the timeline for introducing an affordable housing scheme. Despite all the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister's answer is truly remarkable. While I know that he has only been in office for six months, I am really beginning to question whether or not he understands the extent of this particular issue and the extent of the pressures that people are under. According to every indicator, rents and house prices are increasing quarter on quarter and year on year. We are talking about the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: What we now know, then, is that 300 affordable homes will possibly be available next year and a further 300 possibly available the year after.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is remarkable. Fine Gael has been in government for a year and a half. It signed a programme for Government 18 months ago that promised a cost-rental and an affordable housing scheme. I have no idea what the Minister means when he says that the LIHAF developments will include affordability. The last time he answered that question he told us that in Dublin, for example, that could...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of real social houses delivered to date in 2017 by scheme including council new build, council acquisition, council Part V, council returned void, AHB new build, AHB acquisition, AHB part V, and AHB returned void. [52163/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the possible redesignation of approved housing bodies by EUROSTAT and the CSO; the contingency plans in place to deal with this in order to meet his social housing targets; and his further plans to assist approved housing bodies secure land in order to meet their social housing targets as per Rebuilding Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's inquiry into allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal. [52161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, if he will reconcile the data on voids contained therein and in the 2016 NOAC report; and if an assurance will be provided that there is no double counting of regular voids and long term voids in his annual social housing output figures for 2014 to 2017. [52165/17]