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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the meetings held between him, his Departmental officials and a company (details supplied) regarding its affordable housing proposal; if details of proposals made directly to him regarding the delivery of affordable housing will be published; and the subsidies requested by or offered to the company, for example, State land,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities whose initial homeless figures for March 2018 were amended; the number of families removed from the initial figures; the number of adults and children included in these families; and the type of temporary or permanent accommodation arrangements for the families by each local authority in tabular form....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The first thing I will say is that accuracy of data is very important. While Deputy O'Brien is right in saying that the people behind the numbers are more important, if we are not counting accurately, we do not know if things are getting better or worse and we do not know if the policies that have been put in place are the right or wrong ones. I do believe that the accuracy of the monthly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, we will go through them one by one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the sake of clarity, I am just looking for the Minister to provide that information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can the Minister tell us the local authorities from which they were removed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of those people who were removed, can the Minister tell us how many of those households had tenancies at the time of the removal? This involves tenancies with a local authority or a private landlord.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: So many of the families who were removed did not have tenancy agreements either with the local authority or approved housing body. They might have been in stock that was owned or leased by the local authority but they did not have tenancies. Can the Minister tell us how the circumstances of the households that were removed are any different from those of families currently residing in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The question is what is the difference between the people who have been removed and those in Tallaght Cross because it seems they are similar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister does not know the difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come to that in a second.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come to that in a second. A lot of work went into the underlying definition of homelessness that is used in the publication of these figures. It involved the National Homeless Consultative Committee and the data subcommittee of that in 2013 and 2014. A very clear definition of homelessness was agreed at that time underpinning the figures that have been presented since. The figures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is emergency accommodation in the Minister's view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me share some information with the committee. I have received emails from five local authorities. Since the Minister would not put this information into the public domain over the past number of weeks, I made it my business to contact them directly. Dublin City Council told me that 26 families were removed. None of those people had leases. They were in stock leased by the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Limerick. These are all-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: All of these-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely. All of this has been in the public domain over the past week. Limerick involved 24 families in Focus Ireland section 10-funded temporary accommodation with no tenancies. There is a long-term plan over four years to potentially turn those into real tenancies following refurbishment but in the view of Focus Ireland, that is emergency temporary accommodation. The case of Louth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is my final point. I call on the Minister to review this. He should put those families that are without tenancies back into the figures, and include in the figures other people who are homeless. For example, I refer to those in non-section-10 funded hostels here in Dublin. More than 100 of them are ignored. Tusla-funded domestic violence step-down and emergency accommodation houses...