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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the defective block remediation scheme; the number of applicants in each of the qualifying counties; the number progressed to stage one; the number progressed to stage two; the funding approved at stage two; the funding drawn down to date; the number of applicants in each county who have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans to deliver 1,500 social homes using modular building technology, including a list of projects proposed to date, by local authority, with information on number of units involved and stage of delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant and derelict homes brought back into use for each year from 2020 to 2023, under the following schemes with a breakdown, by local authority, buy and renew, repair and lease, ready to build, refurbishment grant, CPO activation, UDF €150 million fund and over-shop/pub planning exemptions, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is on target to complete action 2.10 of Housing for All to examine a system of holding rental deposits by the end of Q2 2023; the anticipated process following its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26673/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (20 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26674/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by local authority, of the number of tenant-in-situ properties bought by local authorities since the measure was introduced, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26675/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes delivered by the LDA to date, broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26676/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [24005/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet again. [26145/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [26984/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the rough sleeper count published recently by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive. The number of people living on the streets in Dublin has increased by 54% in the past year. There are now 128 people sleeping rough. That is 128 people without a bed to sleep in and without somewhere safe to go home to. It is 128 people without any shelter, who have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. There was no mention of homelessness in his opening statement; why not? Since he has become Minister, we have had record levels of homelessness. When he took office in June 2020, there were far too many people homeless with 8,699 people living in homeless emergency accommodation. There are now more than 14,000 people living in homeless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister often references the exits and permanent, secure housing and tenancies. It is very welcome when people exit homelessness to permanent, secure housing tenancies. What he did not mention is that a lot of the exits are back into precarious situation with people sleeping on floors, couches and even ending up in hospital and so forth. When he speaks about exits, he should actually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Then I will have two further questions after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: No, they are not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: He or she has gone onto a floor or a couch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have two further questions. It simply is not true that the vast majority of exits are into permanent, secure tenancies; that is not the case. Approximately half the exits are back into precarious situations with people back to sleeping on floors, couches, sometimes ending up in hospital and so forth. To give the impression that the vast majority of people exiting emergency accommodation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are a lot of recommendations in the Housing Commission report in a number of key areas but one of the key arguments is that the housing deficit needs to be addressed and that there needs to be a delivery unit to do that. When the Minister published the report he was quite dismissive of that recommendation. He did say he would take a closer look at it. Is that still his position? He...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The question was really on the delivery unit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: How long will the work the Housing Agency is doing take to complete?