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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (9 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a complete breakdown of Housing Finance Agency lending in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21147/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (9 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected lending from the Housing Finance Agency from 2024 to 2027; the projected lending specifically to local authorities and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21148/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected number of units that will be delivered by the Land Development Agency in each year from 2024 to 2027; the type of housing units that will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21149/24]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Absolutely. Mayo for Sam. As the Minister of State knows, I have repeatedly called on the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, to ensure there is accountability and proper oversight in respect of all care centres that HIQA deems likely to be designated care centres. For-profit organisations that care for vulnerable people in our society...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the way up from Mayo this morning I listened to the sister of Anne Marren from Sligo talk about the horror of 17 May 1974 when her family waited for her at the train station in Sligo, as many do when people are returning from Dublin to rural Ireland. She described what the other families had gone through as well. I welcome the families here to be with us this evening, and also the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank our guests for their statements. One of the statements, perhaps Ms Larkin's, suggested there is an urgency to this issue but there is no urgency if we have been sitting on something for 12 months and nothing has been done. The first point I want to speak about is why people are not applying and there are such low numbers of applicants for the scheme in Mayo. Mr. Kelly has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Should people who are starting work on their houses today, tomorrow, next week or next month go ahead without testing the foundations? I am asking for a "Yes" or "No" answer. People need guidance and we have all the experts, the people who have dealing with this issue for years, in the room. People in Mayo want to know if they should go ahead without having the foundations tested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Nobody can give us that answer. Nobody in the room can guarantee what will happen if people go ahead. We have been with the Central Bank and Insurance Ireland and we cannot have guarantees that those houses will be mortgageable or insurable, going forward, or that they can be signed off and certified without the foundations being done, but the foundations are excluded from this scheme....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I wish to raise another issue relating to boundary walls while Mr. Kelly and Mr. McGarvey are before the committee. They will know what I am talking about in respect of the estates in Ballina and Castlebar. The boundary walls are not included in the scheme and the local authorities say the boundary walls are nothing to do with them. I know that the repairs to one boundary wall on an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The scheme is obviously flawed for all the reasons that have been repeatedly outlined. The houses at Lios na Circe in Westport were sold by the local authority through a housing body. There were 52 houses. One house at a time is being looked at when we know that all the houses are likely to have been impacted. Can those houses be looked at as a whole, knowing that? Why are we continuing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What if there are semi-detached houses where one meets the threshold and the other does not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If there are two houses, they are tested visually or whatever, and one meets the threshold because the cracks are wider while the other one does not, what happens in that case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Even though it is a semi-detached house, so Mr. Espey is stopping the one that does pass. Come on. We really need some common sense. The homeowners have provided the common sense. That needs to be looked at. Why are we putting the cart before the horse here in recommending remedial options 2 to 5 when none of those options is based on any specific science research? Mayo homeowners...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is right. Will it always be an option 1 for Mayo and its pyrite?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where there is a discrepancy between the engineers, the engineer from the Housing Agency supersedes the other one. If a test has been done, say under the old scheme, and the chartered engineer submits that, the Housing Agency can overrule them. Is that how it is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have another point but I will come in again. Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That point is crucial. It is one of the points that the homeowners in County Mayo have been making. Obviously, what they are asking for is a 20% payment upfront. We have discussed this before and with the Department. The bottom line for this scheme is that it needs to be affordable for everybody. It should be ensured that people are not locked out of the scheme because they cannot afford...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The council has departmental approval for that at this point in terms of what it is trying to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay, but that is all within the context of the €420,000.