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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want to ask people to repeat answers to the questions asked earlier if they have already got to them, but there are those issues I had raised in the first round, particularly for the Housing Alliance in terms of CALF as an equity share rather than a grant, and whether it has thoughts around that, and also on the payment and availability scheme review. I will throw in two other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps I could come back on both of those points. My question about the turnkeys was not to make a case against them. I understand why they are there and as long as they are done in the right way, they make sense. The difficulty is we are not getting any cost rental in Dublin city because the cost of the turnkeys is too expensive. We cannot deliver unless the Government decides to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three quick points and some follow-up questions. I respectfully disagree with Mr. Curran on one issue. Gross social housing need is not decreasing. We have 60,000 households on the council lists, 60,000 households on HAP, and just 20,000 shy of that on RAS. Those local authorities that still retain the good practice of presenting their members with gross and net housing lists, much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps Ms Cosgrove could comment on the P&A agreement, so this does not get lost again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: To ask a straight question, is now not the time to just decouple the calculation of the P&A from market rents and base it on full-cost recovery? If it is going to be the approach, is this not what we need to do now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that be approximately 150 of the total of 200 staff, if 50 positions are reserved for Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Brilliant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: A supplementary question on this aspect, regarding the targets for social and affordable housing in the Government's housing plan, for now to 2026, for example, is if this means there is uncertainty concerning whether sufficient land will be available for the direct delivery of those targets? Are we just unsure? I ask this because projects in Dublin city will be constrained by the amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Could that information be shared with the committee? We would be interested in it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. I thank Mr. Taaffe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shocking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: And a beautiful city at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am just saying I agree with Senator Cummins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: For a change, I am agreeing with the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think we all agreed on that in the end. Senator Cummins was just confused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If only the Deputy knew somebody dealing with infill in the Department.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his comments and for the significant work his officials did with our committee to facilitate pre-legislative scrutiny. Sometimes, our debates around this Department can be fractious, but there was broad consensus throughout the committee's proceedings, not only on supporting the Bill, but on trying to work on a collegial basis to ensure it was as strong as possible...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, much of the debate about our 2030 and 2050 emissions targets has focused on energy, transport and agriculture. I would like to shift the focus to the built environment. Approximately 30% of our emissions come from the built environment, 20% from operational emissions relating to energy use and efficiency, and approximately 10% from the embodied carbon and materials...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Expenditure Reviews (5 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 142. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated impact of voted expenditure for Vote 34, subhead A32 Affordable Housing Fund which amounts to €60,000,000 for 2022 in respect of the General Government Balance. [18144/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reports (5 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the recommendation of the spending review Social Impact Assessment – SEAI Programmes Targeting Energy Poverty 2020 that the energy poverty schemes should collect information both before and after energy efficiency works which can be used to assess whether they are achieving their aims has been implemented;...