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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make some opening comments and then ask some questions. I have a real concern about how long it has been since EUROSTAT's decision in March 2018. Notwithstanding the fact that both Departments have outlined the action taken to date, I am not hearing a coherent plan or strategy to get the approved housing bodies back off-balance sheet. While it may not be a problem today, our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Was that this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: May I ask one supplementary question on that? I know this is not a straightforward question, but if the AHBs were taken off the Government balance sheet today, what would that mean for the fiscal space available? What would be taken out? What would be the advantage to a Government of having it off-balance sheet in terms of how it could then use that fiscal space elsewhere? Can Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a few supplementary questions. I apologise to the witnesses. The Chairman and I had to do a radio interview but I will go back over the transcript.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not. It concerned rent pressure zones and all the great difficulty renters are having. I have three supplementary questions. I am sure Mr. McDonagh winces every time politicians clumsily try to work our way through stuff around the fiscal space because getting our heads around it is genuinely very challenging for many of us. I will relay back what I think Mr. McDonagh was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that annually?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In total.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would not say "vague". I would say "esoteric". That is not Mr. McDonagh's fault. He did not create the rules.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: This will be the last time I mention fiscal space, I promise. If, for example, the AHBs were to spend in a given budgetary year €100 million on private borrowing, that would take up €25 million of fiscal space. Does the Department know how much of the €100 million private borrowing facility was spent by the AHBs? What would be the advantage to the Government in terms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification and Future Outputs of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is only for two years and families live longer than that.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school supports in place for a person (details supplied); the number of waiting lists for schools with special classes they are on; and when they will be provided with a place in a special class as recommended in the educational assessment. [39275/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (1 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence refuges in 2017. [39477/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal will be published; and the action he plans to take arising from the contents of the report. [39599/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce regulations for a tenancy deposit protection scheme; and if his Department has commenced work on the development of such a scheme. [39727/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (1 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the quality standards framework inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and when the framework will be in place. [39788/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (1 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the roll-out of choice based letting across all local authorities as per page 5 of the guidance document issued in December 2016 (details supplied). [39798/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is hugely significant legislation, whatever an individual's view of it may be. In some respects, it is on a par with the National Asset Management Agency Act back in 2009, though it is very different legislation and its intention is positive. We are in the process of scrutinising an agency which, if it does what Government policy wants it to do, will hold assets equal to or even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are soft on guests, giving a break. Wait until they get in front of the Committee on Public Accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important that the committee is clear on two key elements of why the Bill is structured like this. It is structured as a commercial, independent entity with 60% of the units to be sale on the open market, because that is the only way one can get it off-balance sheet. We just need to be clear about that. We are talking about an investment over 20 years of between €40 billion...