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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his target of 33,000 new home completions a year will not be met until 2025. [34153/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On Sunday, writing in the Mail on Sunday, John Drennan included a startling revelation. Apparently, a high-level memorandum from senior civil servants to the Cabinet sub-committee on housing said that the 33,000 new home completions that will be in the housing for all strategy will not be met until 2025. I do not expect the Minister to confirm or deny the content of a confidential...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hopefully the Mail on Sundaywill let me write a critique of the Minister's plan and I can sing its praises or highlight its weaknesses, depending on its content. For the second time today, the Minister has not answered the question, which was a simple one. When does the Minister believe we will reach the 33,000 new home completions target that will be in his strategy? If he will not answer...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin makes no apology for opposing sweetheart land deals for developers that will see 50% to 70% of the homes on public land sold at prices over €400,000. That is bad housing policy and reckless use of a public resource. I remind the Minister that Members of his party sided with Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats in opposing the appalling sweetheart land deal in Oscar...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This week's Central Statistics Office, CSO, pulse survey makes for grim reading. Some 76% of people sharing rented accommodation do not believe they will ever own their own home. Tens of thousands of people are locked out of home ownership, trapped in over-priced rental accommodation or forced to move back home with their parents, who are beside themselves with worry that their children...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: If ever there was a lesson in Orwellian doublespeak and dishonesty, we have just heard it from the Tánaiste. The key problem is that almost every single policy this Government has introduced has pushed up house prices and rents. The help to buy scheme pushed up house prices. Rent pressure zones, RPZs, pushed up rental costs. The shared equity loan scheme, which we will debate later...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I did not ask about social housing. I asked about public housing, and surely the Tánaiste understands the difference between the two.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We deliver 4,000 affordable purchase homes per year. How many has the Tánaiste delivered?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: How many has the Tánaiste delivered?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We deliver 4,000 affordable purchase homes annually.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We want affordable homes for working people, and not tax breaks for big landlords and sweetheart land deals for developers.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday we heard that the Tánaiste's Cabinet colleague, the Minister, Deputy Harris, suggested that alternative sites were being examined for the future national maternity hospital. Tallaght, in particular, was mentioned as a possibility. Can the Tánaiste confirm whether the Government is indeed looking at alternative sites and, if it is, which sites, and what stage is that at?...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Bill has been two and a half years in gestation. Considerable work on the legislation and the ideas behind it started a year before the previous Government fell. As I understand it, the working group continued to work on it during the interregnum and modest changes, in my view, have been added by the Government. This means the legislation before us in fact does not represent the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 139: In page 34, line 4, after “a” to insert “public”. These amendments are very straightforward. This section provides for the Land Development Agency, LDA, to have a register of public lands. We want that register to be public. These two amendments, therefore, insert the word "public" in the appropriate place in order that the public...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. On the basis of his explicit commitment that the register will be public at all times, I withdraw amendments Nos. 139 and 140.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not agreed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The wording of amendment No. 144 is as proposed by the Association of Irish Local Government. I am interested in hearing the Minister's response to the concern expressed by Deputy O'Callaghan. I think that the Minister's amendment resolves the problem and addresses the broader issue of boards of directors, etc. I am less concerned than Deputy O'Callaghan but I would like to hear from the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to be clear. I have three amendments in this group. How far are we going up?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Chair is right.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 145: In page 35, after line 38, to insert the following: “50.The Land Development Agency shall be subject to the City or County Development Plan, the Local Area Plan, and any other statutory plans or bye-laws made by the local authority in relation to any land which it proposes to develop and including the making of a masterplan for such land.”. ...