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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the indulgence of the Chair, could the same point be made in respect of other changes in policy? We teased this out with the Department. For example, when the updated design standards for apartments were published in 2018, including, for example, for the first time, co-living and build to rent, they obviously had an impact on land values. We saw that then in purchase prices. There is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is interesting, because the Department seems to make a distinction between the market value and the transaction value, which, to me, just seems to be the market value at the most recent point at the purchase or sale of it. It had this fixed view that the market value is the value with the residential zoning at the point of the development plan. It was only indicating that the review was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department said that where there is a dispute, the same arbitration mechanism that is used for compulsory purchase orders will be employed. Do the witnesses think that could also contribute to delays, particularly with the very tight timeframe for the register?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Very diplomatically put.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan and the Social Democrats for tabling this important motion. The more I listen to the Minister of State, the more I am of the view that it is just not possible to take the Government seriously when it comes to housing. If there was ever a definition of Orwellian doublespeak, it is coming to the House today and telling us that he believes in home ownership while at...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: He has to ask himself why it is so difficult to own a home. The reason is the policies the Government and its predecessors have introduced have pushed up house prices. Today, house prices are higher than they have ever been in the history of the State. Let us consider those policies. The Minister of State's predecessor, Michael Noonan, introduced egregious tax reliefs for institutional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I want to acknowledge the significant volume of work being done by our guests and by their teams in all of the organisations. While it is those people who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness who have the most difficult job, the staff of our guests, particularly front-line staff in the local government and NGO sectors, have to work with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two supplementary questions before I go to Simon. I know that in a number of locations in Dublin, additional beds have been put into rooms that are already being shared. I am not criticising that decision. One has to provide accommodation for people. How widespread is that to increase the number of beds in particular facilities? Regarding move-on accommodation, on one hand, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the witnesses from Simon address the regions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will pick up where Deputy Higgins left off. It is important for people to know that separate to the homeless HAP, there is that discretionary uplift in financial hardship cases. Outside of Dublin, the two are not differentiated. Strictly speaking, it is not permissible to go from HAP to homeless HAP in the one property but that discretion can absolutely be given. That tool is there. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a long list of questions. The Chair does not need to worry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across. Does that mean the DRHE has some visibility on the picture across Dublin city and county?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: A concern some of us has is, if the number of people with notices increases, the number of people overholding will increase and emergency accommodation options may become more limited. It already takes the RTB, on average, four months to deal with adjudication in an overholding case. Is there a concern that the length of decision-making could increase because the RTB itself has a challenge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am interested to hear the views of Threshold, the Simon Communities of Ireland and that of Ms Hayes's team on the following. Like Threshold, most of us who understand how notices of termination work were not predicting a "tsunami" or a "wave" - some of the more colourful language some Members of the House chose. There is a concern that, given all of the information we have, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I ask Mr. Stanley for a response, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think the tenant in situscheme is a really good initiative on the part of Dublin City Council, born out of a particular set of circumstances. It was not widely applied across local authorities. I know our own local authority did not pick up on it. The real issue is that it should never have been shut down. It was shut down from 2020. When it was was reopened last April, there was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There were only three more and they were shorter questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that point, the report is very strong and it may something for the committee to consider in the autumn. When we discuss our schedule, we could agree to consider the full report. My final question was on the eviction ban.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protections, if any, that are currently in place to ensure vulnerable, elderly people who live alone are not disconnected from their utilities due to increased energy prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24110/23]