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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That has not been used by many local authorities. I would like feedback on how the council found that process. There is often criticism of the four-stage approval process. Projects can be delivered through a single-stage process. I assume there are risks in the single-stage process, but the council has overcome them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Has Kildare County Council utilised the single-stage process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That is interesting. I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: There are a few associated issues with delivery and maintenance of stock, if I could just diverge slightly. One of the advantages that the AHB sector would see in terms of cost rental, in particular, is that there is a sinking fund built into the calculations for the units for maintenance over a period of 30 or 40 years. Obviously, such a maintenance sinking fund does not exist in local...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: What was it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That is a major jump.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Some 22 weeks is probably average or better than average.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: There is a balance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That is an exceptional length of time for a unit to remain vacant, given all of the associated elements with that. Is there a framework system in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: There is a framework system in place and it is still at 39 weeks. They do not go out in bundles-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Kildare County Council is introducing a framework.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Does Meath County Council have a framework in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Again, similar to the vacancy and dereliction on the private side of things, we must give a good example from the local authority side. These are the calls we always get as public representatives, concerning, for example, a council property that has been vacant for six months or a year. We must be acutely conscious of this type of situation in respect of leadership. If we are preaching one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Turning to allocation policy for units as they come on stream, either directly to the local authority or via AHB sector, is a choice-based letting, CBL, system operating in counties Meath and Kildare? What percentage, typically, of units would go on CBL?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Is there a reason it is so low? Is this a new system that has just been introduced and the number of units is being gradually increased in this regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: What level is it intended to get to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Wow.