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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: The Deputy is eating into the Minister's time-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: Let the Minister finish without-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: Members, we are under pressure for time, as always, so we are going to take pillars two and three together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: Yes. Please reference the pillar or section relating to the question. If we can keep to questions as much as possible, we will probably get through it much quicker than anticipated. It is five minutes for each side, without interruption. I call Senator Boyhan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: I am sorry to cut across the Minister but we are well over time. I call Deputy Casey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: The Deputy is eating into the time for his questions to be answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: We are going around in circles on this topic. This is something the committee will discuss in private session. I do not want to eat into our time to ask questions. I call Senator Murnane O'Connor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: I apologise for interrupting the Minister. We must move on to Deputy Coppinger.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: The Minister has gone well over time and I call Deputy Cowen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: If the Minister and the Deputy keep going at one another, we will not hear what is being said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: I will ask the Deputy and the Minister to leave it at that because I want to ask some questions. I have chaired this meeting for the past three hours and I have not asked any questions yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: Deputy Cowen I wish to ask some questions. I have the floor. I thank the Department and the Minister for facilitating a meeting with the committee last Thursday when a huge amount of data, information and clarification was given to the committee. I thought that we had teased all of them out last week. Since Rebuilding Ireland was introduced, this committee has been afforded an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: Where a local authority owns a building, which happens to be protected structure, and on which it is going to carry out works to convert it into four homes for four people, the cost of purchasing that property and turning it into four homes far outweighs what one can buy on the open market, and to me this is not value for money. Is it possible for a local authority to sell that property and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: Can I ask for two clarifications? When it comes to capital funding, where there is an infrastructure deficit, for example, with water, can a local authority finance that with its capital budget until the development is finished at the rent-to-buy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: Can the local authority use its capital budget, or its capital programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: I thank the Minister, Deputy Murphy, and his officials, for allowing the extra time. I also thank the members for their patience and for staying back as well. I am also grateful for the amount of information that was afforded to us prior to this meeting. Our next session on Wednesday, 31 January at 1.30 p.m. will be detailed scrutiny of the Vacant Housing (Refurbishment) Bill 2017 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee (31 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: As we have a quorum, I call the meeting to order in public session. Apologies have been received from Deputy Ruth Coppinger and Deputy Mick Barry will substitute for her. I propose we go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members and visitors in the Public Gallery are requested to ensure that for the duration of the meeting their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode, depending on their device. It is not sufficient just to put phones on silent mode because it will maintain a level of interference with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. Baldwin. I now invite Mr. David Browne from the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. Browne and Mr. Kennedy. I invite Ms Hegarty of UCD's school of architecture, planning and environmental policy to make her opening statement.