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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to come back on a previous query about the fact that the CSO's registration data for local authorities is very similar to that of the National Oversight and Audit Commission. It reported in its 2022 report that there were 146,000 local authority properties, while the CSO reported around 150,000. There is a strange anomaly because the public private partnership social homes are owned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will remind Mr. Byrne if he forgets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the figure of 246,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the 2023 numbers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The rents reports the RTB is now publishing are great. The fact it is doing them in a periodic way and there is a form of prenotification is good. Will the RTB get to a point where it will be able to give quarterly updates on the total number of registrations at any one time in real time? With an annual report, Cabinet approval is needed, and I appreciate that. We are all interested in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just do not press Ms Crimin on a date yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked Mr. Byrne about the AHB bulk registrations, the funding and who is responsible for the website.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Byrne have an idea of what quarter of next year the RTB is aiming for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What are the costs involved and who is looking after the system’s upgrades?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Who are they? Can that information be shared with the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is that contract costing annually?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Byrne could share it with the committee in writing after the meeting. I presume there is a base figure and then there is a figure for maintenance or additional work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If Mr. Byrne could share that information with us, it would be great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Byrne said that with a straight face.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Byrne is absolutely right. That is a political decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the RTB have the capacity to take on the additional 150,000 social rental tenants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The point is well made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good to give the parties present an open invitation to give us advance notice of when the research is done so we can schedule another discussion. That would not only be helpful for the committee, but would also help to inform the accuracy of the public debate. We would be keen to reconvene when the research has been done. No pressure.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is telling that the Minister, in his five-minute contribution, spent only two minutes outlining his budget measures and three minutes attacking the Opposition. That is two minutes of more empty promises that will be unfulfilled and three minutes of deliberate misrepresentations of Sinn Féin's position. The reason, of course, is that yesterday we learned the emperor has no clothes....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on required works at a school (details supplied); if her Department will immediately replace the fire-damaged and hazardous prefab buildings in situ; if her Department will commit to prioritising the school's infrastructure needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43452/23]