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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It got 20% of the previous phase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It got 20% of the previous amount. The developer was in NAMA subsequently and there is no reason to believe that we could not get the 20%. The situation in Dún Laoghaire is chronic. I ask the Minister to use whatever influence or power he has to make sure we get the 20% that was originally earmarked and not just 10%. Why, as I understand it, is the breakdown on public land one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked whether we were on pillar 1, 2, 3 or 4.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Houses are now being built which were originally supposed to be council houses. They could house homeless people who are on the housing list but will now be given to the private sector. Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is there-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask the Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not doing it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In my area, they are all two-bedroom units.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying that the logic of why the Minister is doing it is to facilitate the rapid build-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He should answer my question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not answer one of the key points I put to him on the issue of HAP and RAS and the fact that this is leading to a degrading of the quality of what is now called social housing. With a council house, there are standards and the council is directly responsible to uphold those standards and the tenant knows who to go to. With RAS or HAP, it is much more insecure because the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am looking at pillar 1.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It refers to the HAP scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is leading to homelessness, and in any event-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly will, if I am not attending another committee meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Right. I am allowed to talk about rapid-build housing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not answer the point I raised regarding rapid-build housing. I can only deal with the concrete reality. Plans are one thing, and they look lovely, but then the concrete reality emerges. The first rapid-build provision being pushed by a local authority proposes that they will all be two-bedroom units. The reason it is proposing that, even though what is needed is a much...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why can we not have a moratorium on evictions in the current circumstances where there is an emergency? Reference was made to unintended consequences. The big consequence that is of significance and that is at the bottom of this emergency is that people are being put out of their homes. I am not that bothered about what other unintended consequences there might be if it stops people from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What happens further down the line?