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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: There was a cut that the Deputy's own government had agreed year by year-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: There was an agreement made by the Deputy's party, when it was in government, that the capital budgets would be cut gradually over a period of five years, and they were built into our figures over the last three years, unfortunately including cuts for this year, which I regret very much and which most Deputies have raised here over the year. There will be some increase in the private house...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: They will not all be constructed. Some of them are coming from a variety of ways, as I said in my initial reply.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government's housing policy statement, published in June 2011, clearly identifies that the priority for Government will be to meet the most acute needs of households applying for social housing support. I am determined to ensure that the social housing programme optimises the delivery of social housing and the return for the resources invested. To achieve this, it is essential that we...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I point out a simple fact: it takes quite some time to build a house. We need to use methods such as leasing in the short term in order to provide houses next year for people who are on the waiting list. We are starting a construction programme. We have finally stabilised the spending and are starting to increase the spending, which is quite an achievement, considering that we are coming...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Part of the delivery next year will be bringing voids back into use again - I know there are many of them particularly in the Dublin and Cork regions.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: And the waiting list was growing.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I did not say that. Let me explain-----

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: First, the Deputy is using fairy-tale figures.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: If the Deputy believes we could build that number of houses with that amount of money, I think he has another thing coming. Perhaps Deputy Wallace might enlighten him on the cost of building houses.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I just explained that, but the Deputy was not listening. I explained the figure for next year is partly to do with bringing voids back into use, which can be done somewhat quicker than constructing. Generally speaking it will take at least a year to construct a housing development.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is why much of the money next year will be delivering through voids. As we move on - we hope we will get more stimulus money - we are developing and we will increase a house-construction programme. We are in a real world where capital budgets have had to be shrunk.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are also carrying out an assessment of the waiting list. That list needs to be updated so we can get accurate figures. The Deputy should be happy that we are finally spending a little more money given that we have had to reduce it over the past five years.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: If Deputy Boyd Barrett had new solutions instead of fairy tale solutions, we might get somewhere.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is a specific question that I am answering. My Department does not hold information on the number of households on local authority waiting lists. These figures fluctuate as households are allocated housing and new households apply for support. In accordance with section 21 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, I directed all housing authorities to prepare a summary of...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister, Deputy Hogan, and I met representatives of NAMA approximately one month ago and discussed this issue again. We have met them several times. There have been improvements. NAMA has set up a special purpose vehicle which is assisting in moving the properties more quickly. More than half the units, including houses and apartments, suggested by NAMA as being available for social...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have to hand a list by county of those units that are considered suitable. It is part of an answer to another question tabled by Deputy Troy.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: There is a variety of reasons. They may be in parts of the country in which there already is an oversupply of NAMA units, which are not in places where people are seeking social housing. Some may not be suitable for other reasons and may not be appropriate housing. While there is a variety of reasons, the Department must rely on local authorities to make these judgments and assessments....

Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 9 and 148 together. The capital loan and subsidy scheme, CLSS, was introduced in 1992 for the purposes of providing long-term mortgage finance from the Housing Finance Agency, HFA, to facilitate the provision, by approved housing bodies, of standard rented accommodation for low-income families. The scheme is administered by the local authorities and...

Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: To clarify, this is simply an accounting exercise whereby something the Department would have paid in December now is being paid in January because the amount is not actually due until the end of January. It will be a once-off change for this year but in the future, the money that is owed for the last six months of each year will be paid in the January of the following year and-----