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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Construction Defects Alliance, the Department and the Minister, if he is willing to attend.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have read it twice, the Minister will be happy to know.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I welcome the Minister. I have a series of very practical questions to put to him. On the Estimates for local authority funding, the rates funding is hugely welcome but there is a significant volume of funding at issue in regard to the loss of non-rates revenue, particularly for some western seaboard counties, as well as other Covid-19 factors. I understand it was €10 million...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister and I were both critical of his predecessor for presenting information in a way that was less than clear. It would be helpful if the Minister were to provide a report on voids, broken down between long-term voids and casual vacancies. Some 1,200 properties were funded through a similar programme last year. Only 300 of those were long-term voids. The rest were casual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and the estimated start and completion date. [28970/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (7 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the way in which the pandemic unemployment payment is to be treated for the purposes of means tests for social welfare payments such as the disability allowance. [29102/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of efforts by his Department to deliver affordable housing on the Glass Bottle site, Ringsend, Dublin; and if the delivery of the homes has been affected by the inability of NAMA to reach a commercial agreement with Dublin City Council and his Department prior to the competitive process commencing for the site in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish a quarterly Traveller accommodation construction pipeline report similar to that currently produced for social housing to enable the Houses of the Oireachtas to track the progress in the delivery of Traveller accommodation under the new TAPs. [29869/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish a quarterly serviced sites fund accommodation construction pipeline report similar to that currently produced for social housing to enable the Houses of the Oireachtas to track the progress in the delivery of affordable accommodation to rent and buy under the fund. [29870/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the delivery of the 20,000 homes including 8,000 discounted price homes assisted through the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund which was to see the delivery of these homes by the end of 2019; the status of the spreadsheet of each LIHAF funded project including the number of discounted units...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to publish new heads of a Bill for the Land Development Agency; and if he plans to consult with the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage before proceeding to finalisation of the legislation and publication of the final LDA Bill. [29872/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing first tenancies created in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the breakdown for each local authority for each of the years and to date in 2020. [29873/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: To follow up on Senator Fitzpatrick’s point, it would be good to have Dave Kenny in as he is going to be the Government’s tsar on retrofitting. My understanding is that at some point the Government is going to merge social and the non-social housing into a complete programme. I am sure he would be happy to attend the committee, as well as the local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We must keep in mind that the discussion we had about Home for Good earlier is on the constitutional right to housing because it is on that matter that they are seeking to make the presentation . If I understood the conversation we had earlier correctly, the idea would be to have a stand-alone session on that where we could invite Home for Good and others in before the committee. On the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I only sent my communication to the clerk this morning but I had asked if the proposal that the committee had agreed previously could be re-circulated before a decision was made on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We agreed at the previous meeting that we would have a stand-alone session to look at the cost-effectiveness of various social housing delivery streams. A number of us want to do this, and it can be informed by the Department's report. Separately, we need to do the same thing with all of the various Government interventions on affordable housing, such as the local infrastructure housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a need for a stand-alone session to look at the impact of Covid-19 on a number of aspects of the business of the committee. One is that which Deputy Cian O'Callaghan has mentioned. The ESRI has compiled two very detailed reports on the impacts or potential impacts of Covid-19 on housing output. Given the nature of Covid, that is something we should prioritise to happen before the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree with Senator Cummins. My worry is that if we keep loading everything into the meeting with the Minister we will not get to most of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The former Chairman of the committee, former Deputy Maria Bailey, did a really good report for the last committee. It fed into the aforementioned former Minister of State's housing strategy for older people so we could do a really useful session reviewing the previous report, the Minister's strategy and then looking at other issues like the nursing home support scheme. That would be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was not a report on the nursing home support scheme, it was a report on housing options for older people but it did include stuff about that scheme. We should keep in mind that we could decide to do some of these meetings virtually over three hours with a half-hour break. In the first hour and a half we could look at housing options for older people and in the second hour and a half look...