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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of active rental accommodation scheme tenancies currently in place. [44643/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a general prohibition on local authorities purchasing vacant second hand homes and second hand homes occupied by tenants in receipt of social housing support, other than derelict homes purchased under the derelict sites act CPO process and other than one bed and four bed vacant units under the Call for Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the final proposed shared equity local scheme proposal will be submitted by his Department to the Central Bank; and the precise matter on which his Department is seeking approval from the Central Bank with respect to this scheme. [44768/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all persons and organisation who lobbied him, his predecessors or his officials seeking an exemption from the 20% Part V provision of social and affordable homes for landowners who purchased their land between 2015 and 2021. [44769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental equity loan, CREL, funded cost rental homes that will be purchased and made available for tenanting in 2021; and the details of the location, unit size and costs of same. [44770/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of serviced sites fund, SSF, and affordable housing funding, AHF, affordable purchase homes that will be completed and offered for sale in 2021; and the details of their location, unit size and sale price. [44771/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the social housing programme output to date in 2021; the number of units completed under each category to date; and the publication date for the second and third quarter social housing output report. [44772/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the parts of and the way in which the 29 recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government pre-legislative scrutiny report on the general scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Bill are dealt with in the initiated Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021, in tabular form. [44957/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the regulations detailing the eligibility and terms and conditions for the affordable purchase and affordable cost rental scheme will be published; and the interim eligibility criteria that are currently in place for affordable rental and purchase homes that will come on stream in advance of the publication of the final...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rental Sector (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of active rent supplement payments that are currently in place. [44644/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Irish Water and the Department for all the information provided so far. I want to broaden the discussion a little to water and wastewater quality. It is a bit disappointing that the Department did not include in its opening statement an update on the ongoing European Commission enforcement for our failure to meet adequate wastewater treatment standards at a number of locations. As...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to go back to a question asked by Senator Malcolm Byrne in respect of Gorey. When there were not dissimilar problems at the Leixlip wastewater treatment plant in October 2019, one of the issues was the non-detection of several alarms. The EPA was very critical of that when its representatives came before the committee in December that year. As Irish Water is now going to conduct a...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I had a terrible sense of déjà vu when listening to the Minister's speech. So many of the rhetorical flourishes of what he said were used by the then Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, when he stood in this Chamber and told us it was the most ambitious and radical State-backed plan in the history of the State, and again, when former...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes he plans to make to the rent pressure zones if the harmonised index of consumer prices hits and breaches 4%. [46715/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister introduced legislation to link rent reviews to the harmonised index of consumer prices, HICP, he said that inflation was running at approximately 0.4% in the previous four months. Of course, in the month the legislation was enacted, rental inflation was 1.9%, thereafter went up to 2.2% and is now at 3%. What will he do to ensure that if inflation continues to rise, people...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. The difficulty for many on this side of the House is that for a long time we advocated for rent certainty when that was the right policy but rents have now risen so high that a rental increase of 2%, 3%, 4% or possibly 5% is not sustainable, particularly for renters who have experienced a more than doubling in the cost of renting in the past decade....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. The crucial point is that the clock is ticking and that this was entirely foreseeable. In fact, I was not the only Deputy on the Opposition benches to say when the legislation was brought forward in May that this was likely to happen. If the Minister brings forward such a measure, it will get the support of the Opposition and, therefore, I urge him to bring it forward...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is committed to introducing some form of redress mechanism for homeowners with defective homes in Budget 2022 arising out of the ongoing work of the independent working group examining the issue of defective housing. [46716/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister is aware, the programme for Government includes a commitment to "examine the issue of defective housing in the first twelve months of Government, having regard to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing report, 'Safe as Houses'". That report included the call for a latent defects redress scheme for homeowners who are affected by fire safety and water...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The difficulty is that, from memory, the Minister announced the working group in September 2020. He appointed the Chair in January or February. The group did not have its first meeting in March. A lot of time was wasted because, in my view, officials from the Minster's Department were trying to impose very restrictive terms of reference. That is a matter of public record. Thankfully, we...