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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (1 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the Not Our Fault 100% Redress conference held in Tallaght a number of weeks ago, the question that all of the affected homeowners had was when these supports would be provided. They made it very clear they wanted, and I support their demand for, 100% redress because, as the Minister rightly said, they did not cause these defects. They made a very clear call for retrospective provision...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (1 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (1 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully accept the need for legislation, although I still believe that the Pyrite Resolution Board could be repurposed. It could start its work pending the enactment of the new legislation, and then be underpinned by that. I urge the Minster to consider that. Yesterday was the first anniversary of the announcement of the enhanced defective block scheme. The regulations for that scheme...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the emergency measures he is introducing during the winter ban on evictions to avoid a significant increase in homelessness when the ban ends on 1 April 2023. [60044/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister is aware, many of us on this side of the House welcomed the introduction of the winter ban on evictions. However, we urged him to use the breathing space provided by the ban to introduce emergency measures to increase and accelerate the provision of additional social and affordable housing during the five-month period when the ban will be in place in order that many renters...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The way in which the Minister has designed this ban on eviction - it is very different from its predecessor - means there will be a large build-up of notices, the due date of which will fall on 1 April notwithstanding the stagger included by the Minister. I have not heard from him what measures above and beyond those that were in place prior to the ban he is taking to increase that delivery....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: With regard to the tenants in situscheme, the problem is that local authorities are still applying the allocation scheme when taking decisions. That means local authorities are taking decisions not to buy, notwithstanding the numbers mentioned by the Minister. I urge him to issue a circular to local authorities asking them to suspend the scheme of lettings for an emergency period of six...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his opening statement and briefing paper. I have some very specific questions on the Estimates. Perhaps we will take them in turn. Page 5 of the briefing document tells us that the voted capital allocation for housing was €2.46 billion. We know that up to the end of the third quarter, approximately €990 million was spent, leaving €1.46 billion...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that the Minister will not know until the end of the year but I will ask a factual question. Is the Minister confident that he will get as close as possible to spending all of that €1.22 billion?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a question on that which we will deal with separately if the Minister does not mind.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that. I am just asking the questions for the sake of clarity. I am not looking to have a row with the Minister. I will do that on the floor next week. On underspends and carryovers, I appreciate that there is a range of reasons for these. Where there has been an underspend and carryover in previous years, it has obviously meant that certain targets were not met. One of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have another question which I again ask only for clarity. If, for example, the number of new builds last year was several thousand units shy and if the number is 1,000 units shy this year - we will wait and see - is the Minister saying that those lost units will be caught up with by the end of 2025 or 2026 or is he saying that such a shortfall of 1,000 units may hypothetically be met by...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will they be rolled into subsequent years up to 2025 and 2026?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that mean that the annual targets within those five years that have been agreed with the Department in the housing delivery action plans could be revised annually such that, if a local authority missed a target in the first or second year, its target would be increased for the third or fourth year? How is that going to work practically?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is clear.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand. I was just seeking clarity on what happens with the targets.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The hope is that targets could be exceeded next year if the Minister gets a clear year.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the clarity. I have four very quick questions, if he does not mind. Are the 700 acquisitions the Minister mentioned in response to Deputy O'Flaherty's question acquisitions or tenant in situacquisitions? I have asked parliamentary questions and the Department has told me officially that it cannot separate out standard acquisitions under the original scheme from...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I 100% agree.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister has it, which I presume will be in the first quarter of next year, it might be useful to make that distinction in any published data on acquisitions.