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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: To make the more efficient use of the time remaining, I will call Deputy O'Dowd before reverting to the delegates. Is that all right with Deputy O'Dowd?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: I will start with Ms Keatinge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: We only have 20 minutes left, so I was going to take Deputy Barry and Senator Boyhan together. If the Deputy wants, I can take Senator Boyhan first and then he can do his bursts. I also wanted to ask questions but we are going to run out of time so I will not be able to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: That is okay, but I need to take Senator Boyhan at the same time as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: If the Deputy does not mind. When we have this volume of witnesses, by the time we get through everybody, the time will be up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: I thank the Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: We are somewhat pressed for time. I invite Ms Keatinge to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: On behalf of members, I thank the witnesses for attending. We all found it interesting and will be able to develop some recommendations from this meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: Apologies have been received from Deputy O'Dowd. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: At the request of broadcasting and recording services, members and visitors in the Public Gallery are requested that for the duration of the meeting, mobile phones be turned off completely or switched to airplane mode. It is not sufficient to put phones on silent mode, as it maintains a level of interference with the broadcasting system. The next item is on affordable housing and I welcome...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. O'Neill and call on Mr. Baneham from the Housing Agency to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: We will come back to Deputy O'Brien.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: We will do one quickfire round of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: I have just a couple of quick questions before we start the quickfire questions. The three members in the room are very familiar with the Enniskerry Road site as well; I do not believe the knotweed was the big cost on the site. We can make light of things but that is not the big cost on the site. One is hitting pure granite on a sloping site there, the excavation of which is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: While €1,200 is high for cost rental in that area and I would like the figure to be a lot lower, the reality is that the average rent in that area is in the region of €1,800 to €2,000. While it is not ideal, I presume that when calculating the figures, one always goes for the lowest rent possible. That would be site specific; other sites may not have the excavation or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: I have a final question on areas outside Dublin, because as a committee we look not just at Dublin but at the 31 local authorities. For the local authorities where there is natural affordability, is the agency asked to help in any shape or form? Is there a requirement to intervene?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: I am going to Senator Boyhan next. The Housing Agency and NDFA representatives might not have specific answers to some of the questions. That is okay, but they may wish to send them to the committee afterwards and we can then circulate them to members. Senator Boyhan is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: I thank all our witnesses for attending. We went on a bit longer than intended, but we can all agree that it was very informative. We appreciate the information they have given us and thank them for engaging with the committee today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: At the request of broadcasting and recording services, members and visitors in the Public Gallery are requested that for the duration of the meeting, mobile phones be turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode, depending on the device. It is not sufficient to put phones on silent mode, as it maintains a level of interference with the broadcasting system. No. 7 on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Maria Bailey: I call Mr. Brendan Kenny to make his opening statement.