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

Eoin Ó Broin: 799. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the unallocated spend within his Department for 2017; the expenditure allocated to programmes in 2017 which are due to cease in 2017; the funds that will become available within his Department's expenditure profile in 2018 due to changes in demand for services and goods and or changes to costs within his...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 803. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the ringfenced funding of €10 million in 2016 under the CAS, specifically for the provision of accommodation for persons with disabilities transitioning from congregated settings as mentioned on page 55 of Rebuilding Ireland; the areas in which this funding was utilised; and the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (11 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 805. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the homeless families accommodated in the family hubs are recorded on the PASS system; and if they are included in his Department's monthly homeless report. [32366/17]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 806. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the allocation for Traveller accommodation in 2017; the amount of funding drawn down from this budget to date; and the amount his Department expects to draw down by the end of 2017. [32367/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (11 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 807. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount allocated from his Department to fund homeless services in 2017; the additional allocation to homeless services allocated by the local authorities; the amount spent to date on homeless services; and the expected final expenditure on homeless services by the end of 2017. [32368/17]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 811. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of the €70 million allocated by his Department in 2017 for the Housing Agency fund to purchase vacant houses which has been drawn down to date; the number of units which have been purchased with this fund to date; the number of these units which have been sold onto local authorities and-or...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 812. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of units brought into use via the buy and renew scheme pilot in Louth County Council by unit size; and the average cost of returning these units to use. [32400/17]

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...