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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 813. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of his Department's capital expenditure allocation in 2016 of €534 million and in 2017 of €732 million by programme or project type, in tabular form. [32486/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (11 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 814. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the 30% capital advance leasing facility, CALF, payment to approved housing bodies for social housing projects funded with Housing Finance Agency, HFA, or private finance comes from his Department's current or capital budget. [32489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 817. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of his Department's expenditure allocation in 2016 of €401 million and in 2017 of €566 million by project or programme type, in tabular form. [32576/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Carville for his presentation. By way of context, we are in the middle of the worst housing crisis in recent history. The ability of the State to invest in social housing to meet growing housing need is limited because of the financial constraints. Capital investment from central government in social housing remains at historic lows, even with the increases in the past two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Carville provided probably the most positive read of where we are at that I have heard in a long time. That is good news and gives me much more hope that we may see progress on this issue. While I acknowledge that the Central Bank is independent and makes the decisions in this matter, the statement from the Department is very positive. My question follows on from Deputy Casey's. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear about the question, I am not asking Mr. Carville to comment on the discussions in respect of the possible redesignations. He should park that. Perhaps if I phrase the question differently, I will get the answer I am seeking. If, for example, a local authority was today to borrow money from the credit unions or the Housing Finance Agency, because a local authority is on-balance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Sibley for his presentation. I have a general comment and a couple of short questions. It is always funny when one repeats to the second set of witnesses the same general context as given to the previous delegation. There is huge frustration for those of us in the Oireachtas who are dealing with the housing policy agenda. This frustration is borne out of a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a memento of the occasion.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Bodies Data (5 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of times the working group established to review the 2005 sustainable rural housing guidelines for planning authorities has met; the engagement it has had with the European Commission; and the position regarding the progress of the working group to date in 2017. [31646/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Many of us are enormously frustrated, as is the Irish League of Credit Unions, with the fact that for two years the league has made a series of presentations to the relevant authorities but we are still here discussing it. Many of us in this committee, and across the House, share this frustration. Our party has advocated, in the Committee on Housing and Homelessness and previously, that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their answers. I have two follow-up questions, the first of which relates to the possibility of 70% loans, as opposed to 100% loans. The approved housing bodies have an availability agreement that is guaranteed by the State. They also have the step-in clause that has been mentioned, which means that the local authority can step in if something happens to an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the payment and availability agreement being linked to a percentage of market rent, does this create an uncertainty? In Mr. Farrell's view, would it be better if the way in which the payment and availability agreement was calculated was the paying down of the loan plus something additional for the maintenance of the property? Credit unions would then not be dependent on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Brennan for his presentation. At the risk of us boring other committee members, some of us will probably repeat some of our comments from the start of the previous session so that the witnesses can know where each of us stands. Sinn Féin supports the work being done by the witnesses' organisations and their efforts to access credit union and other sources of funding. As...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their answers. I have a couple of follow-up questions. How do the housing bodies envisage that the special purpose vehicle fund will emerge if the Central Bank and the Registry of Credit Unions consent to change the rules to allow credit unions to provide such funding? Do they envisage that funding from the HFA will form part of that fund, or will funding from the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Community Sector High Level Forum (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a report on the work of the high level forum on the community and voluntary sector which is led by his Department; the names of those on the forum; the number of times the forum has met; and the specific issues the forum is currently working on. [31073/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Data (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the place finders service that was promised to assist programme refugees find private rented accommodation has been established; and if so, if he will allow the 399 persons with a form of status that reside in State provided accommodation to access the place finders service in order to find private rented accommodation....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Data (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 855 of 20 June 2017, the number of adults and children that are part of the group of 399 persons with a form of status that reside in State provided accommodation. [31052/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the regulations in place regarding accessibility in private sector housing developments to ensure the needs of persons with disabilities are met in the provision of private sector housing; and if he will provide copies of relevant regulations or legislation. [31033/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (4 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 2,100 of 20 June 2017, if these persons will now be included in his Department's monthly homeless statistics in view of the fact it is now sourced and funded by Dublin City Council under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 (details supplied). [31037/17]