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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the question relate to the actual criteria?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: They will look at the lifecycle cost of the building over time.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not know what they are comparing it to when they do it, but obviously they are looking at the lifecycle costs of the building, the potential maintenance costs, any investment that is required and the liability that will fall on their side at the end because they will own the stock.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I think in the first instance they will compare it against traditional leasing arrangements, in other words, the lease arrangements that we have-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Of course. Whenever a value for money review of a project is done, it must be judged against what we have been doing traditionally to ensure the stream is delivering something with as much value for money, or something the same ball park, as traditional schemes. Otherwise, why introduce a scheme? That is what they will do.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Absolutely, but with all the usual caveats around certain commercial sensitivities. Certain parts of the document might have to be blacked out from public consumption.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is referring to the construction status report.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: To clarify, the construction status report from quarter three of 2017 mentioned that more than 3,000 homes were on-site at the time, with a further 1,000 plus units coming on-site in the coming weeks. The quarter four construction report is imminent; we will have it very soon. It points to the fact that there was a significant stream of delivery actually coming on-site for local authority...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am confident.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his questions. An important policy change on acquisitions was announced at the first housing summit in September. I did not believe that local authorities should compete in high-demand areas with young couples and people trying to buy homes because it was pushing up the prices of houses and was not contributing to our stock of social housing. As a result we made a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is a short-term measure in some respects but it is not necessarily a bad measure. Many people like the options that HAP gives them. They prefer to remain in the private rental sector, are happy to have the State support to be able to do that and their housing needs are being met. When one looks at the funding that is being provided this year, we have effectively doubled the budget for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Casey and I do not disagree very much on this issue on which we take a similar approach. However, Rebuilding Ireland has a target of adding 50,000 houses to the social housing stock, with a further 88,000 people on the housing list to be accommodated through the housing assistance payment. In the years leading up to 2021, people will present with a housing need the State must meet....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On people who exit emergency accommodation and subsequently re-present, we collect a large amount of data across the 31 local authorities. It takes considerable time and effort to drill into the data, to present them again and check them before publication I want to do more with the information available to us. As I signalled on the previous occasion I released figures on the number of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I think a lot of people are appreciative of the fact that they are able to get private rental accommodation which they can source themselves, in a location that they want to be in and still be supported by the State, which was not the case under previous schemes. That is one of the benefits of HAP and the reason it is proving to be successful. I do not think we have a different view on HAP....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Again, as soon as the Deputy lets me out of committee I will endeavour to publish them as quickly as possible. That said, the last time I said that to him, I left the committee, looked at the numbers and published them, and I was criticised subsequently for my strategy in releasing them. Is Deputy Ó Broin going to do that again if I go back to my office now, pull up my figures and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: That was a backhanded compliment. Deputy Ó Broin is very good at those.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am hoping to get them out tomorrow.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chair.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chair, and the Deputy for his questions. We face a number of challenges in the provision of water services at the moment. We have planned a number of different capital projects to that end. The main constraints we face relate to the construction sector and the supply chain. This is something we normally face when it comes to the provision of water infrastructure. We face it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The case closed on 5 February of this year and the decision of the court is awaited. The Commission has also informally indicated there may be some further updates coming in respect of other urban agglomerations that have since been identified as non-compliant as well. We are in the middle of a back and forth with the Commission on this. Given what we are planning to do, we are hoping it...