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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I completely understand it is not the Department's responsibility to create the SPVs, whether for the approved housing bodies to borrow or the credit unions to lend. However, what we are hearing from both of those sectors is they do not feel they are getting enough assistance from the Department of Finance, with its expertise in this area, and possibly from the Minister of State's Department...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why only 529 properties out of 3,967 offered to the Housing Agency for purchase have been acquired to date; and the reason the vacant homes strategy published over the summer contains no targets or new funding allocations to ensure the maximum return to the housing stock of vacant homes across the State. [39020/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rebuilding Ireland promised the delivery of 1,600 homes over a number of years through the Housing Agency's €70 million fund. It was a good initiative which Sinn Féin welcomed at the time, although we felt it was under funded. Of the 3,967 properties offered to the Housing Agency for purchase under this fund, only 529 have actually been formally purchased which is a success rate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. There are two issues. One is the length of time it is taking to purchase these properties and get them tenanted and the other is the very significant number of properties for which bids have not been made. I did not table this question in order for the Minister to outline how the scheme works. I understand that very well and the Minister has just...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that this process takes time and that multiple agencies are involved. However, with a 15% purchase rate to date and a 30% bid rate, it seems the Department will not meet the target of 1,600 homes by 2020, although I hope it does. If Sinn Féin can assist in any way with any local authority, we will do so. Where local authorities are not expressing an interest, is the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce a State-wide affordable housing scheme for local authorities; and the reason the €75 million allocated for O Cualann type affordable housing developments has not been made available to local authorities. [39021/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's attempt to secure the reclassification of AHBs as off-Government balance sheet. [39018/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financing arrangements envisioned in the delivery of social, affordable and market priced housing on the first eight sites to be developed by the Land Development Agency. [39019/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The homeless figures are on the website but the report on the reclassification is not. I am not going to ask any questions about that because I have not read the report. I ask that the Minister gives the committee a commitment that when we have had time to read and digest that report he will come back to us to deal with that issue specifically, because he knows that we are very concerned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that, will the Minister give us the commitment that he will appear before the committee to talk to us when we have had time to absorb the report? It is important to us in committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the answers he gave to the previous questions, some of which were interesting. I have a few follow-up questions. The homelessness figures for this month and last month are now on the web and I have had two quick reads of the reclassification report. My questions are factual and we will come back to the substance of this at a later committee meeting. There has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister would accept that this is very similar to Tallaght Cross. In Tallaght Cross people have an apartment and a key. They have a nine-month, 12-month or 18-month licence agreement. There are 65 of those units. I am not looking to have a political row. I am trying to understand the rationale.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not having an argument with the Minister about that. This is quite important. My question is purely factual so I can understand the logic of the report. Tallaght Cross contains 65 units that were purchased from a debtor to the National Asset Management Agency NAMA by South Dublin County Council. South Dublin County Council took a decision to use them as emergency accommodation. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Have those living in the Tallaght Cross units been recategorised out of emergency accommodation as part of the figure of 741?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Ms Hurley know?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: My understanding is that those living at Tallaght Cross have not been recategorised, and this is my point-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Chair to let me press one thing. I refer to the decrease in the August figures by 270 adults and children. There are 190 fewer adults and 80 fewer children in emergency accommodation. Is it fair to assume that there is a possibility that some of those have not exited homelessness, but have been recategorised under the change in counting method? People will see those figures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can the Minister comment on the framework agreements for procurement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to ask a practical question. This is merely a factual query. If a local authority wishes to have a tender arrangement with say, maintenance contractors, it puts out a general call, a bunch of applicants come in and it makes an agreement with three contractors, each of which has a contract for three years or five years. The authority hands out the jobs as they come. Is the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.