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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Ó Broin is trying to give the impression that the Department is not being transparent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is again personalising this to me. I think it is a weird pursuit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes I am responsible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I am responsible. That is why I set up the inter-agency group. That is why I came forward with recommendations. I am responsible, that is why I asked the DRHE to do this work. That is why I have published these reports. That is why I did not delay the publication to wait for the completion of a survey. It is why I published them and we are discussing them today at this committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: -----to try to help people out of emergency accommodation into homes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is obsessed with the politics of a number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I have no difficulty in my job. I have no difficulty appearing before the committee, or speaking in the Dáil every day, as I do, on these issues or going in front of the media to be held to account. I do it every week in this job. My concern here is that the Deputy is obsessed with the number and the politics of the number. My only obsession is finding solutions for people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Do not let me be accused of withholding information from Deputy Ellis. I may not have time to even get to him. This is the type of language Sinn Féin is using and it is completely political and obvious and transparent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: In response to Deputy Casey's question on the quarterly reporting we report on the monthly numbers. Eoin O'Sullivan's analysis is not ours. He includes other figures such as direct provision and everything else. All other matters that we report on in respect of housing are quarterly. Most organisations report quarterly because that allows them to better understand trends, analysis and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand the point. I am not familiar with the site but if there are 130 homes and 50 might be in HAP, the positive point is that 80 will be there for people in the private rental sector. We have to bear in mind that people have needs in that area as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We have to focus our resources on building our own stock as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is happening. It is ramping up and we see that in the numbers but we have to find that balance and I agree that we would not choose some of the economics here if we were starting from here but unfortunately we were not starting from a stable housing market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Prevention is key and that is the reason I told the local authorities to be innovative to prevent people from going into emergency accommodation. That is why some of them use section 10 funding to keep people out of emergency accommodation and why they should not have been categorised as being in emergency accommodation. That is the reason we have that issue. They are doing what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It can do it for more and it is not hitting its cap.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It can go to 20%-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: -----but the evidence shows it is not even going to 20%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The average rate of discretion is approximately 15% in the Senator's local authority area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There is still room. It is only being applied in 13% of HAP cases.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Staff Data (21 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I have appointed two special advisers in my Department since my appointment as Minister, both of whom work across a wide range of areas within the remit of my Department including Housing, Planning, Local Government, Water Services and Electoral Reform as well as liaising with the media and other Government Departments and advisers. The names and salary details of both...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (21 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 251 and 274 together. The Mortgage to Rent (MTR) scheme introduced in 2012 is targeted at those households in mortgage arrears who are eligible for social housing support whose mortgage is unsustainable and who have very limited options, if any to meet their long-term housing needs themselves.  One of the main criteria underpinning the MTR...