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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA).  The SSHA captures the total number of households qualified for social housing support across the country whose social housing need has not yet been met and helps better inform policy and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (5 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Local Authority Home Loan has been available nationwide from local authorities since 4 January 2022. The Housing Agency provides a central support service that assesses applications for the Local Authority Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. Each local authority must have in place a credit committee and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (5 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Following on from the Government decision of the 30 November 2021 in respect of the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme, the Government approved the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022 on 21 June 2022. The purpose of this Bill is to implement and give legislative underpinning to a series of measures to improve and enhance the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (7 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Programme for Government sets out a number of commitments in respect of the important policy area of addressing building defects. These include a commitment to examine defects in housing, having regard to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing’s report "Safe as Houses?" and to assist owners of latent defect properties, by identifying options for those...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Risk Management (7 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My officials in the Department are currently reviewing the correspondence received from the OPW regarding flood relief measures at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon and will issue a response to the OPW in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All (published in September 2021) provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030 with the overall objective that every citizen in the State should have access to good quality homes through a steady supply of housing in the right locations, with economic, social and environmental sustainability built into the system. The strategy sets out, over four pathways, a broad suite of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Local Authority Home Loan has been available nationwide from local authorities since 4 January 2022. The Housing Agency provides a central support service that assesses applications for the Local Authority Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. Each local authority must have in place a credit committee and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (7 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The "Framework for future delivery of water services" which was developed through an engagement process facilitated by the Workplace Relations Commission, will enable the delivery of the Government's ambition for a world class public water system as set out in the Government's Policy Paper on Water Sector Transformation (February, 2021). The Framework restates the Government's vision for...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach and leis the Senators who are here as well. As I said in the Dáil, the defective concrete block disaster has haunted the lives of people in Donegal, Mayo and beyond for far too long. People who built and bought family homes have had to watch those same homes crumble before their eyes while others potentially face...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank all Senators for their contributions. I have taken a detailed note of all contributions. I will, during the course of Committee Stage, get an opportunity to respond to many of them. This legislation, as Senator Blaney rightly said, has not just come about in the past two months. It follows more than two years of direct engagement with homeowners through the various fora we have...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I did.

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I am just trying to be helpful to the Senator. Amendments Nos. 71, 72, 81, 94, 106, 111 and 150 were accepted. Perhaps not all of them were Deputy Pringle's, however, a number of them were and his name was on a number of them. I welcomed his engagement on it, in fairness. It is not a criticism. It just shows that we accepted amendments in the Dáil and I would expect that if there...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My God, Deputy McDonald, your arrogance today has not just gone stratospheric; it has gone intergalactic.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: We would need NASA's Webb telescope to be able to track it. Housing is a key political issue of our time. We know people stuck in a rent trap or on social housing waiting lists are desperate for somewhere to secure and afford.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Parents and grandparents want to see their children buying a decent home, like they did at a similar age. The Government is committed to tackling this as our number one priority. After a decade of undersupply, as the Taoiseach said, the numbers of new builds, commencements and planning permissions are up. More and more people are drawing down mortgages and buying new homes. The first...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: This is a real plan. I say to Sinn Féin Deputies, if they want to deliver homes, they should stop objecting to measures like the 6,000 homes in Dublin to which they objected-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: -----including the schemes for Oscar Traynor Road, O'Devaney Gardens and Ballymastone. I could go on.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: They say one thing and do another. They block progress, delay delivery, disrupt and sow discontent.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: We have a housing plan that is taking hold. It will work and the Deputies opposite should support it.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: You never even responded-----