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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Meetings (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet the residents and committee that have organised the recent protests in the East Wall area of Dublin. [59592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will commit to real engagement and consultations with local people before refugees and asylum seekers are placed in their community; and if he will develop a community dividend for communities to ensure that enough doctors, school places, transportation facilities, housing units and supports are in place...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees and asylum seekers who have been located in each local authority area; the number of modular homes that have been built; and the timeframe for the delivery of same over the next few months. [59594/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of the 500 public buildings that were identified for use in the housing of refugees in April 2022 that are currently in use; and the number of the homes and rooms in private homes that were pledged for use to house refugees that have been activated. [59595/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of buildings that have been purchased by his Department in the past two years to house asylum seekers and refugees; the number of these that are currently in use; and the number of empty buildings and vacant sites that are in the ownership of or that are being rented out by his Department. [59596/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage rate at which new housing starts are reducing; the steps his Department is taking to tackle the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58972/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Only 390 applications have been made to the Croí Cónaithe initiative so far, according to a reply to parliamentary question I received only in the past week.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I am not looking to ask this particular question in a combative manner because there is a crisis and the Minister has an interest in trying to fix it, but I still believe we are not focusing on the builder-level reason homes are not being built. When I talk to dozens of builders in my constituency, they tell me they are not building and they have not built in years. We have to get to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: With all the figures, plans and language, if we are to boil this down we have record house prices, record rents and record homelessness. We are at the worst point so far of the housing crisis over the past ten years. Last year the Government missed its target by 5,000. It had a target of 28,000 builds and it built 23,000. This year's target is smaller than last year's target of 28,000...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister is the fifth holder of the office to read roughly the same script into the Chamber-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The language is a single transferable speech over a decade at this stage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The key issue is that a construction company in Navan that was building for the council went bust very recently. We need to know why builders cannot build and make a profit. They are scared of the risk that exists in the market and, therefore, they are not getting involved in it. The costs are not being mitigated at some level by the Government, such as through a reduction of taxation on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not want to get into the rhetoric.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will elaborate on his interpretation of rapid build technology being used to tackle Ireland's housing shortage. [57518/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The issue of rapid building technology in dealing with the housing crisis was raised several years ago and has been raised again recently in the context of how we deal with the pressures on the system as a result of the refugee crisis in the country at present. Many Ministers have said the technology will be part of the plan to house refugees and it will be part of the plan to build homes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: In relation to refugees and asylum seekers, most people want to be generous and to be the Good Samaritan. The way the Government has handled this, with the lack of consultation with communities, has created division in large number of areas. Consultation is very important, for example, in the building of wind turbines, pylons, hotels and such things. People should have a role in the future...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We support safe harbour. It is a moral and international responsibility when people are fleeing war, violence or famine to stand up and give them shelter when it is needed. Nobody is arguing that point. We are simply saying there must be equality in the delivery of services in this State. The only baseline we are asking for in this situation is one from which everybody who is resident in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Other places have.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: They have.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Thus, modular homes will not be used for housing.