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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: To follow on from my last point, is there a reason Galway City Council did not take the lead Cork took? I would be critical of my local authority for the same thing. Galway City Council is still developing the model but the legislation was published 12 months ago. Is there a reason Galway City Council did not do what Cork did and move ahead of the legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is very welcome. Where are things with the affordable element of the Clybaun Road site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Has that stage 1 been submitted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Excellent. Has stage 1 been submitted for Ballyburke?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: There was some delay on the Garraí Beag site. There were to be 58 social housing units there. There was a change of developer. Where are things on that site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Is Ms Philbin in a position, in a public forum, to go into the reasons for that switch?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is a fair answer. Is there likely to be an increased cost to the overall delivery of the project as a result of switching tenders?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Very good. I thank Ms Philbin. I did not want to turn the Oireachtas committee into an area committee, but that information is important. We are trying to see how local authorities are implementing Housing for All. Two years ago, much of the legislation, the multi-annual plan, the budget and so on just were not there. It is impressive to see local authorities respond to that. It is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The Dublin figures are not disproportionate then. We are getting similar figures for Dublin. Is that for both social and affordable purchase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Do the local authorities have a significant amount of land that they are using for these projects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That would knock a big hole in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The council will have to cost that into the final price.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: In the context of the affordable housing fund, certainly for affordable purchase, it is basically cost minus the amount that can be drawn down from the affordable purchase. If, therefore, a house is brought in at €350,000 or €400,000, do you get €50,000 at the moment off the local authority-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: It could be between €275,000 and €325,000, then, for affordable purchase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that. I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: It is fascinating to follow this discussion. This committee is starting to look at what beyond quotas will look like. The question of what happens when 50% or 50 plus one is reached needs to be considered. We are still a long way off that in many places but it is about that idea of sustainability. I was at the unveiling of a portrait of Kathleen Clarke, the first woman Lord Mayor of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: For example, would Ms Duffy like to see a prescribed quota on radio panels?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I agree on the data and that should be a given. It is something we should take up directly. How do we prescribe the outcome while at the same time not getting into the nitty gritty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: In Ms Duffy's experience, do those red flags go up? Do those red lights go on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course, but in general, in Ms Duffy's experience, does it happen?