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- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: I welcome both groups. I commend the work done over the past 18 months and longer under enormous pressure. I commend everyone who has worked tirelessly in very difficult and challenging circumstances to provide accommodation, as best as possible. There have been some challenges and a lot of misdirection or no direction by the Government. There has been no coherent policy, as I see it....
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: When will they open?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: What about the remainder of the 316?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: By the end of 2023, will we have achieved the 700 units that the Government committed to delivering last November?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: The Department is still working on the sites for phase 2. By the time procurement and everything is complete, we will not realistically achieve 700 units by the end of this year. Is that what Ms Baxter is saying?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: How many sites are actively under consideration currently?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: That is great. I know there have been real challenges around temporary accommodation. We have seen instances in recent weeks where communities have taken issue with the identification and selection of temporary accommodation. I absolutely know there are serious challenges and pressures involved. The Minister has alluded to poor communication with communities. I wish to talk a little...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: Communication is key and I welcome the belated moves of the Minister and the Department to try to address some of those issues by taking on additional staff and so on. On site selection, is the decision to use particular premises based solely on availability? What work is done to identify particular challenges in an area, including a lack of school places or challenges around access to...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: I hope I will have the opportunity to come in again to expand on some of those issues. I know communities in parts of the country have been promised additional resources, including teachers and GPs, and none of it has materialised. I would like the chance to question some of that in a little more detail. I know that talks have taken place between the Port of Cork authority and...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: In 2022.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: For all other applicants then, it takes about ten months, which I think was the figure there. Is that correct?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: I have a couple of questions for Mr. Walsh first. On the system for registering properties, there is a statistic indicating that of the 1,228 properties deemed suitable, a total of 980 or 80% have been allocated. That is a shortfall of 248 that have not been allocated that were deemed suitable. Is there a reason they have not been allocated?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: There is not a long period of time that they are lying there. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien made an announcement last month about local authority tenants being able to take in refugees or asylum seekers. Has there been communication with the local authorities on that initiative? I have heard concerns from some local authorities that they had not been given any guidelines or...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: Clear guidance has been issued.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: On inspections of accommodation that is being used, how often do they take place? Concerning my constituency, I have looked at the Department’s reports and there is a property which I will not name but where the last inspection was November of last year.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
John Brady: I will not name this one but there have been concerns it had been used to accommodate 111 individuals and a decision was taken to more than double capacity to 255. I have seen photographs of the internal layout of that accommodation. A ballroom has been utlised and bunk beds are stacked in. I do not know how it would meet any safety standards. I have concerns, particularly around fire...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I welcome the officials. It is estimated that between 1991 and 2013, up to 80% of apartments built had major issues in regard to fire safety, structural defects and water ingress. Between 60,000 and 100,000 homes are estimated to be affected. Does Mr. Doyle agree that was mainly due to the lack of build controls, poor regulation and a lack of oversight?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: There was no oversight there to ensure that compliance was met.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: On the oversight in place now, is it correct that the National Building Control Office was established in 2019?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: It operates under the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council.