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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: It is not.

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 talked about this previously.

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

Eoghan Murphy: We know hotels are not the answer.

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

Eoghan Murphy: We know hotels are not the answer. Every time an individual case has come to us, my officials and I have worked to help people in such circumstances. Let us continue to do that because that is the way to get a resolution for the people concerned. We are not knocking people off the housing lists either. It is not manipulation. There are qualifying criteria that have to be observed. We...

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 Chair. I will just pick up on two points she raised a high level. The Rebuilding Ireland programme was launched in 2016 and is all about delivery. It cannot just be published and put on a shelf. It is not a document but a tool that must be delivered. We have to keep a constant laser-like focus on delivery. Where delivery is not happening or needs to be sped up or where...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Could the Deputy repeat that?

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 and Deputy for the questions. With regard to figures, the Committee of Public Accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General audit everything we do so we are accountable in that way in terms of the figures. There is no question over that at all. With regard to matters such as the number of homes completed in a year, we are doing ongoing work with the CSO to get an...

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

Eoghan Murphy: St. Michael's is currently part of one proposal related to two other sites. I had the opportunity to visit it the other day. It was not for the first time but the first time in an official capacity. I met some community leaders. The Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, was there to guide me. It is a fantastic opportunity to build homes and regenerate the community. People would 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 do not have that figure. I am sorry.

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 want to get back into the reporting method but this is not something I receive on a monthly basis. I would love to get much more information but that would require more intensive reporting. It may not be possible to do that so we have to look at the restraints we have in that area. When I receive these reports, I often ask detailed questions and the answers are not available...

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

Eoghan Murphy: When we talk about it, we talk about exits from homelessness rather than exits from emergency accommodation, and they are two different things. For someone to get, say, a preventive measure like homeless HAP they must first qualify as homeless. They get it and then they are not homeless. Does the Deputy know what I mean? It is a bureaucratic loop they have to jump through but it is an...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Once we discovered that-----

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

Eoghan Murphy: -----one local authority had made a miscategorisation, we then had to ask ourselves if any other local authorities had been doing that. We began contacting local authorities to tell them that we have discovered this in one local authority and to ask them if they were doing it.

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 asked to recategorise anything.

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 the email in front of me-----

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

Eoghan Murphy: -----but from what I heard, it did not contradict what I had said. We were not directing anyone to do this. It was only if they agreed that they were not in emergency accommodation that there was a recategorisation. I think I have answered all the questions.

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

Eoghan Murphy: In terms of what I said last night-----

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 Deputies for their questions. Regarding LIHAF 1, the drawdown in 2017 was small because I only approved a number of the projects in the second half of last year but they were already moving to the design stage and so on so there will be a larger drawdown this year. In terms of LIHAF as a tool, it was not an affordability one but we are delivering affordability through it....

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

Eoghan Murphy: It was specified when I announced the affordable purchase scheme in January that I would have to sign a commencement order and move with regulations. Each local authority will decide for itself about the management of lists. On the current affordable purchase scheme and its delivery, this is through carve-outs on LIHAF sites, through the serviced sites fund and in the larger sites, such as...

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 been good at using social media, although some are better than others. We have also seen Deputies and Senators promoting the scheme and I have seen leaflets in local authority offices which ask if people have heard of the repair and lease scheme and if people have a property that they cannot afford to get tenanted. All those channels will be helpful. I will...