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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]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the findings of the 2013 departmental review into shared ownership schemes; the reason the report was never published; the actions he took following the report; and the advice that is being given to councils dealing with distressed shared ownership mortgages. [52164/17]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: With regard to subhead A3, there is a proposed increased to €356 million. How many units will that deliver by the end of this year? There is a table in the second briefing note relating to local authority capital expenditure. How many units has the €177 million indicated in the table delivered to date? How many units has the €107 million billed delivered to date? A...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked about repossessions which are referred to in the third column of the table. It is the first time I have seen the term used. What is the category?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister talking about the voids but calling them repossessions?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the fine detail on those in the social housing construction pipeline or if not, can we get the same level of detail so that we know exactly what they are?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the table if we take the regenerations out of the existing targets my understanding, based on an announcement from earlier this year, is that there will be approximately 4,300 new units between acquisitions and builds for the year. I presume repossessions are in there somewhere. The Minister is saying, however, that by the end of September 1,300 of those were delivered. Is he saying now...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Cowan raised this the last day we met. None of us is complaining about additional spend and if that is producing additional units it is very welcome. Many of us want to know how many units under each of the headings have been completed by now and are in the process of being tenanted. If the Minister cannot provide that information today, could he do so as soon as he is in a position...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume that under each of those headings from the Minister's targets the Department provides updates through the year. My worry is that the only area of delivery which is ahead of target is the housing assistance payment, HAP. The worry is that because there is such a focus on construction if the Minister is falling back on the construction targets they are being replaced in respect of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: On acquisitions, just over 1,800 units have been offered to the State and various agencies for purchase over the past 12 months through several different schemes by banks, funds and other parties. Obviously, the €70 million Housing Agency scheme is the principal one. As of a couple of months ago, the State, in all its forms, was in the process of purchasing only 600 of these 1,800...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question was more specific than that, because I already knew all of that information. Some 1,800 units were offered. None was offered on the open market. They were all offered by banks, funds or other parties to the Housing Agency or to local authorities that contacted the Housing Agency. That is my understanding. Has the Minister seen that full list of 1,800? Is he satisfied that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps we might be able to discuss more of the detail in private session next week.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Accommodation Funding (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the associated costs provided by his Department towards the funding one Housing First tenancy. [51772/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 28 November 2017, the details of activities covered by the funding from his Department to an organisation (details supplied). [51762/17]