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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement tenancies at the end of 2018; and the cost of the scheme in 2018, in tabular form. [8375/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of standard and priority allocations refused by social housing applicants for each local authority in 2017 and 2018; and if the figures will be provided as a percentage of total allocations for each council. [7907/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the annual local authority homelessness financial reports for 2018. [8340/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2018; and the drawdown to date for each local authority in tabular form. [8361/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 2,610 social housing acquisitions in 2018 that were purchased vacant; and the number purchased with social housing tenants in situ. [8362/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 560 voids included in the 2018 social housing output figures were vacant for more than six months. [8363/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, tenancies at the end of 2018; and the cost per scheme in that year in tabular form. [8374/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new affordable housing scheme will be published; the income limits of the new scheme; the local authorities which will be using the scheme; when it will be available for applications; the targets for the number of affordable rental and affordable purchase homes to be delivered in 2019, 2020 and 2021; and the number...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister give the House an update on the affordable housing scheme that his Department officials have been working on? I ask, in particular, for as much detail as possible of income limits, eligibility, price, if such information is available, for renters or purchasers, and a timeline as to when the scheme will be introduced. There is a degree of frustration among councillors in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last year, the ESRI, in conjunction with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, published important research on housing affordability. While it was found that overall 32% of renters and mortgage holders were having affordability issues, in the bottom 25% of income earners, it was found that 75% of those households were struggling with rent and mortgages. That demonstrates...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps. It is on the same subject.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two supplementary questions. First, can the Minister clarify whether the regulations he has been speaking about will cover the cost-rental model, as well as affordable purchase? I have a genuine concern with the way he is structuring the financing of cost-rental projects. Because the model involves paying down the loans over 25 or 30 years, the starting rents are simply too high....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rationale for the 44% underspend in the Traveller accommodation budget for 2018; and the efforts he is making to ensure there is a 100% draw-down of funding by local authorities in 2019. [8452/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I acknowledge the good work the Minister of State is doing on the issue, particularly in the establishment of the expert group. However, I am increasingly concerned by the underspend year on year. I received the reply to a parliamentary question last night which gave us the breakdown for last year by local authority. Not only was there a 48% underspend across the State, ten local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concern is that the situation is getting worse year on year. For example, the worst ever underspend since the Traveller accommodation programmes were introduced was in 2017 and now we discover that last year the situation was the same. It is the same local authorities. This is not about one or two sites, because the Minister of State is absolutely right that there can be two sides to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I urge the Minister not to proceed with this draconian measure. I urge him to come before the housing committee and have a reasoned discussion with us about this because he is not being given the full information. There are many examples, which we can all cite from our constituencies, where people turn down offers of accommodation, for example, because they have been offered accommodation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the CSO house build completion data for 2018; and the steps he is taking to ensure house building targets for 2019 are reached in view of the fact the 2018 figures show that they were 40% below target for 2018. [8454/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The CSO released the house completion figures the week before last. They are a good set of figures, which I welcome, and I also welcome any increase in private and public sector house building. My concern is that the figure of 18,000 units reported is substantially behind the targets set out in Rebuilding Ireland. What is going to happen to ensure that this year, next year and in 2021 the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to correct one thing the Minister said. The target in Rebuilding Ireland is not to reach 25,000 units by 2020 and 2021. The target in the plan is to "ensure that an average of 25,000 homes are produced every year in the period to 2021". That is what Rebuilding Ireland says. Nobody expected 25,000 units in 2016, 2017 or 2018 so what the target suggests is that, as it ramps up, about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rebuilding Ireland is crystal clear and the direct quote comes from both the plan and the Rebuilding Ireland website. It states, "to ensure that an average of 25,000 homes are produced every year in the period to 2021". I am not disputing that the figure of 18,000 is an improvement on 14,000 in the year before and 9,000 in the year before that. I welcome every new home that is available,...