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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Ministerial Orders to remove the residential category from zoned land under Section 31 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, in each year from 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will provide each Ministerial Order, the local authority, the size of the land in hectares, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the affordable purchase and cost rental homes delivered in 2024 by the delivery streams (details supplied); and the average delivery cost per unit, for each of these delivery streams. [39445/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all assessments and analyses undertaken by his officials in the preparation of the Planning Design Standards for Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2025, including analysis of the cost reductions per unit of accommodation arising from the revised standards; and to publish these assessments...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the research papers on which his claim that Irish apartment design standards are the highest in Europe; if this research was produced by his Department; if not, the name of the organisations that undertook this research; and to publish the research on which this claim was made which is being used to justify the new...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 773. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the recent refusal of visa applications for a group of 33 Palestinian children who were due to travel to Ireland as part of a cultural and sporting exchange organised by GAA Palestine; if he is aware that this trip had been in planning for months and involved the support of over 150 Irish families across the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 695. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm whether IPAS has, or is considering, entering into a contract with the owners of a hotel (details supplied) for the provision of accommodation for people applying for international protection, or people in receipt of temporary protection. [39008/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 749. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently being accommodated in the City West campus, County Dublin; the breakdown of the number of people in receipt of temporary protection; and the number applying for international protection. [39502/25]

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Since we have a bit more time, it might be better to give members more than the five or seven minutes.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Gould will be here but Senator McCormack obviously will not as she is a Senator.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister and his team for the briefings. To be clear, will he confirm whether the figures in front of us do or do not include the committed €715 million Supplementary Estimate? I assume not, but just so we are clear.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does include that.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will focus on comparisons between the spend at the end of last year and what is allocated in the Supplementary Estimate on the key capital programmes for social and affordable housing. When I look at the outturn across the three key social housing programmes, namely, SHIP, CAS and CAF, the spend at the end of last year was €2.662 billion. That is for new-build social housing as...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister saying the Department might come back for an additional Supplementary Estimate to make up that shortfall later in the year, if it is approaching its targets?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister accept the Department will not be able to meet its targets unless it has more in the capital funds for SHIP, CAS and CAF than the €2.24 billion in front of us?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. It is about the same as where we were the year before but the Minister is correct on that. Regarding the cost rental equity loan scheme, CREL and the affordable housing fund, the outturn last year was €761 million and what we have here is €750 million, so there is an €11 million shortfall. We know that, particularly with CREL, the cost of the units is...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important that we do not waste our time having rows over numbers. Chair, it might be really useful if the Department were to furnish us with the outturn under each of the heads and programmes across the Department. This would mean us having the two sets of figures which would be useful. I could ask for them through parliamentary questions but it would be useful if the Department were...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That has the 10,000 social homes but it does not have any commitments on affordable targets. I am thinking particularly about cost rental and affordable housing fund purchases.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Regarding the housing targets, is the Minister hopeful that he will be able to set those out in September or at the end of August?