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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: They were not. This is the thing; there is a formal reporting structure to me. I can get a full and detailed report with all the information that we need to get a proper understanding of what has happened here, and then decide on the best way to move forward, based on recommendations. That is what we are trying to do. It is very important for the integrity of all involved, the integrity...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, which is a €6 billion programme over five years, we will meet the housing needs of 130,000 people, which is quite something, although only 50,000 will go into social housing stock However, as we move beyond Rebuilding Ireland into Project Ireland 2040, and the first ten-year horizon in the national development plan to 2027, we will bring an average of 12,000...
- 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 sorry, I am only going on what the chief executive officer told me.
- 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 clarify that with the chief executive officer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Was it have been built under Part V?
- 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 only making it based on the information that the chief executive officer gave me.
- 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 from the chief executive officer.
- 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 know if they were delivered directly by the local authority or if they were delivered by a different mechanism.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: All I am going on is the information I was given while I was there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Ó Broin will call the chief executive officer in Wicklow. He is good at that. I am only going on information that I was given.
- 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 because as far as I understand, it is true.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: If it is incorrect, I will correct the record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities have been out of the building game for a number of years, whether it is 13, 14 or 16 or however many years. There is a huge amount of work happening. My responsibility and that of the Department is to drive that effort. That is why we have the housing summit, the new unit and why we are providing new resources where they are needed, not only in the Department but also in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: The local authorities have come to us with a number that they think is achievable through vacancy. We will work with them on delivering that number back into use.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: There is a balance to be struck with local authorities. We want regeneration and reduced vacancy rates but we also want new schemes. We want to make sure that the resources are available in order that they can progress both.
- 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 Senator for those questions. In regard to the local authorities' build projects, I note that the local authorities are not giving me the wrong numbers. People might think the numbers are too low or could be more ambitious, but the numbers they are giving me are accurate. I have to account for every euro spent on each of these projects. Last year we spent all of our current...
- 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 mixing up any timescales. I have been clear about the timescales that are in place. Some 40,000 tenancies have been provided with housing assistance payment, HAP, so far. We have about 20,000 landlords working under HAP and an average of 300 HAP tenancies being secured each week, so it is working successfully. On our policy for rough sleepers, where people are found 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: That is what we have-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: -----put in place with the housing delivery unit. I gave an example earlier of finding a local authority interpreting government policy in the wrong way because a Deputy brought it to my attention. We can then direct that local authority as to what the actual intention of the policy is. In the example I gave earlier, it was to make staged payments. Senator Murnane O'Connor asked me to do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I cannot break the law.