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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of quick-fire questions for Mr. Taaffe and Ms Leech because there are couple of issues I want to get through quickly. I will pick up on Deputy Hearne's query. The Government has obviously set out social housing targets of an average 12,000 per year each year over its lifetime. We are waiting for the affordable housing targets and I accept there is a different need in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me go through the other questions. I just note that the CCMA has not taken a formal position or made a formal submission on what it thinks the actual need for local authority HB and LDA affordable homes should be over the coming five years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: But it has not taken a view on the affordables.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: No problem. The second thing is tenant in situ. Obviously, there have been significant net cuts in the funding available for social housing acquisitions this year compared with what was spent last year. I know each local authority is going through the assessment of what I call the overhang, which are the applications from 2024 that were paused. However, it seems there is a sizeable number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept the council has to operate within the terms of the circular. I am not disputing that. That is a row I will have with the Minister separately. Am I correct in the figures that, of the overhang of the figure the chief executive gave to TDs, which I think was 70, that currently only 40 of those are still being considered? On some the decision has been made to purchase and some are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of the 30 that are dropping out, does Ms Lynch have, or will she at a later stage give us, a breakdown of how many will be because they were never going to be purchased when the process was completed, versus those that have fallen foul of the new rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. I will go back to an issue Deputy McGrath raised. Last week, when local authority re-lets were being discussed there was some unfortunate language in the Chamber. We heard about dependency culture among local authorities and local authorities looking for handouts. The NOAC report referenced by Mr. Taaffe is clear. It is an average turnaround time of 33 weeks and there is an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are casual re-lets really.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the maximum funding they can request. A local authority cannot go looking for tens of thousands. It can ask for a top-up of €11,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the voids programme, which is funding casual re-lets now, is there a period where each property has to go to the Department for sanction? Is there a turnaround time for that? What happens there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the money be spent up front or will some local authorities, such as smaller ones, be nervous about spending it upfront without sanction being provided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me make a suggestion. I have already spoken twice. It might be fair if those who have not spoken yet speak now, and the Chair can let me in after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four quick questions. We got reports earlier this year from local authority housing managers of delays in the social housing investment programme, SHIP, the capital advance leasing facility, CALF, and cost rental equity loan, CREL, first-stage approvals, either directly for local authorities or AHBs. Is that still the case or are those approvals back to what their ordinary time would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is less than €50 million per year, and that is all borrowing for all local authorities. The reason I am saying this is because the borrowing for St. Michael's Estate, which is the largest cost-rental project so far, is €22 million. Combined borrowing for all local authorities for a year amounts to about €50 million, while the borrowing for one project is €22...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: When does Mr. Taaffe expect that work to be finished? Does he think 20% extra staff are needed, or 40%, or is it too early to say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The 1930s or the 1940s.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (21 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the number of islanded data centres contracted to connect to the gas network; the number connected to the gas network of those contracted; the number awaiting connection to the gas network of those contracted; and the number of formal enquiries that have been received but which are not contracted, for each...