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

Cian O'Callaghan: Is there a timeframe on that?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Finally, I just want to ask about the development levies being waived. Is that funded or is that just not funded? Are the levies needed for infrastructure lost altogether or is there replacement funding for them?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Were the paid in full?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I earlier raised a point about exits from homelessness. The quarterly report published by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The quarterly reports by the DRHE provide more than the number of exits into secure housing tenancies. The reports on local authority homeless performance published by the Department give a detailed breakdown of exits from homelessness and show that a considerable number of people do not move into secure housing tenancies but back into precarious situations. I am sure the Minister is...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The homeless performance reports that the Department publishes-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Does that include in the local authority homeless performance reports published by the Department?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: They are not in the Department's-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I will print off a copy of a report and show it to the Minister the next time I see him.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I do.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is not the case in respect of the local authority homeless performance reports.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On the steering group that is examining the resourcing of planners, is the Irish Planning Institute, which represents the professional planners in both the public and private sectors, represented on that steering group?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is interdepartmental. Will that steering group engage with them?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: They will, therefore, be engaging with them.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On a separate theme, we talked earlier about the need for private investment, which I certainly agree with. We need plenty of private and other forms of investment in the housing sector. I think the Ministers will agree on that. I have a strong view on how that private investment is channelled into what types of housing. One issue that is brought up by constituents consistently,...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I was asking about apartments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: What was the underspend on subhead A3, local authority housing, last year?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is the amount that was actually spent.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: What was the underspend?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay. Is there a reduction in the amount allocated to local authority housing in this year's Estimate?