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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: That is why it is a priority in my Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: That is why we highlighted the site in Project Ireland 2040 and we are moving forward on that. The capital appraisal for 540 units on the Shanganagh site has been received and the Department is working with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on the appraisal. The breakdown is 200 social housing units and 340 affordable housing units, which will cost between €140 million and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the questions and I will try to answer them as best I can. No decision has been made on the homeless reporting. To be frank, I have not yet received the reports. There are two to be received, with one from the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, DRHE, which I instigated in January, and one from the inter-agency group I set up in September after the first housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: One of my structured engagements was to meet another umbrella group of NGOs that represents every different group that helps people in emergency accommodation with the needs they have. We met as a group and there might have been 30 of us in the room. We spoke about the different problems being faced and potential solutions. It was a very good engagement but nobody has raised it with me...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the Deputy want to give me a list of questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I will give as much information as I can bearing in mind that I do not want to cause any unintentional confusion around this. When the categorisation was brought to my attention, we were under pressure to publish the March numbers and I did not want to fall away from the monthly reporting with which we had been proceeding. The decision I made was to put out the numbers and also to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I will come to that question right now because the Deputy asked me about the accuracy of data.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is right regarding the accuracy of data and that is why I did that because I want accurate numbers as well. Whenever we debate, we always debate numbers and data and that is the space I like to be in because it, rather than anecdotes, can help drive better policy. The number removed from the March numbers is 578 comprising 247 adults and 331 dependants. I think I might have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: They were removed from five local authorities: Kerry, Limerick, Waterford, Louth and the Dublin region.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not have that information. What I can tell the Deputy is that from memory, the people removed from Dublin and Louth were in private rental accommodation while the people from the other three local authorities were in local authority-owned or leased accommodation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Tallaght Cross has not yet been addressed by the local authority - the Dublin Region Homeless Executive. That is something we still have to look at in terms of categorisation. What we are looking at here is people who are not in emergency accommodation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We have not yet looked at Tallaght Cross so I cannot tell the Deputy about a difference but what I can tell him is that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: What I can tell the Deputy is that we have not yet looked at Tallaght Cross. What I can tell him is that when we talk about people - because the Deputy is talking about people with or without tenancies - we have people in private rental accommodation paying rent who were at risk of losing that accommodation, who got support from the local authority and who were then counted as being in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the Deputy accept-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The homeless report gives the number of people who are in emergency accommodation. That is what it does. Regarding the definition of homelessness, it is for each local authority to decide if a person who comes to it is homeless or not and it does that based on the guidelines that are there but we are quite clear on what emergency accommodation is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In the first instance, we are talking about people in hotels and B&Bs. We are talking about people in hostels either for one night or even in a temporary situation for six months. That is emergency accommodation. It is very different from local authority-owned stock and private rental sector stock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On a point of information, I am not aware that any figures have been re-categorised in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: These are all re-categorisations. This is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am not ignoring anyone, and the charges that the Deputy levels against me are very serious. He accepts the miscategorisation. He has accepted that this has happened. I am the person responsible for getting to the bottom of this. Deputy Ó Broin does not have the complete information, and that is the dangerous thing about what he is doing. There are formal reporting structures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It takes time to collate the information correctly. I want the correct information. The Deputy's approach has been to create greater confusion around what has happened here by going out and sourcing piecemeal bits of information. The Deputy mentioned two local authorities that were not involved in the recategorisation process.