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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: How long will it take?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to address Financial Resolution No. 4. I have to say I am not surprised that none of the Ministers from the relevant Department are here to defend it because it is quite clear they were not in favour of the introduction of this particular policy measure. There is no doubt there is a challenge in terms of affordability and viability but the suggestion that a reduction in VAT on new...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is absolutely correct. There are planning permissions for 40,000 apartments that have not yet been commenced. The Minister claimed that this measure is to activate those permissions. Why then provide a VAT reduction in respect of apartments under construction? All the expenditure being provided for this measure next year is for apartments that are currently being built. It...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he intends to take in the coming months to halt the relentless rise in adult and child homelessness and to reduce the number of people presenting as homeless and accelerate the number of exits of persons currently in emergency accommodation. [54228/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, homelessness is at the highest level since modern records began. Over 16,000 people, including 5,000 children are officially categorised as homeless and in emergency accommodation funded by the Department. Astonishingly, neither the Minister for Finance nor the Minister for public expenditure and reform even referenced homelessness yesterday. The budget book simply...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, in response to the budget, Focus Ireland said: "Budget 2026 has failed to deliver for the record number of over 16,350 people now homeless as the Government did not take any decisive action on housing to help the most vulnerable in society." The Simon Communities of Ireland in a similar vein said: "It is deeply disappointing that yet again there was no mention of homeless...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Simon Communities of Ireland went on to say yesterday, “The measures announced today will do nothing to reduce the numbers of people being forced to experience the trauma of homelessness.” What it is saying and what I want the Minister to respond to is, of the €235 million of additional funding for homeless services on the allocation to date of this year, how much...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he is taking to tackle high rents in the private rental sector and the increasing unaffordability of rents in the Government-funded cost rental sector. [54230/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government had a clear commitment to progressively increase the renters' tax credit. Obviously, that promise was broken in yesterday's budget and as a consequence the vast majority if not all of the renters' tax credit will be swallowed up by rental increases based on the most recent data from Daft. Likewise, an increasing number of people who apply for cost rental...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Average rents for new tenants increased by over €1,000 last year and for existing renters by almost €800. Despite the Government's renter's tax credit, the majority of renters will either be worse off or marginally better off. When we change the legislation, however, those rent increases are going to be even more dramatic for people who move tenancy or enter into a new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Prospectively or retrospectively? Apologies; I am not heckling.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: So they will not apply to existing tenancies.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The potential saving for a cost-rental tenant paying an average rent of €1,500 per month would be €225. That is €2,700 a year. I hope that he would insist rather than expect that the LDA provides that. Equally, the VAT reductions on apartments could also be a helpful way for reducing the rent if the VAT reduction is passed on to the AHB or LDA through Project Tosaigh...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the cost reductions to the developers be passed on to the LDA, yes or no?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is the tenth budget I have had the opportunity to respond to as the Sinn Féin spokesperson on housing. In every single year, the Minister for housing presents a budget and tells us it will address and improve the housing situation across the State. In the 12 months that follow, house prices, rents and homelessness rise, and social and affordable housing targets that are too low to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Emergency Services (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider and respond to concerns around the air, sea and rescue helicopter expressed in correspondence (details supplied). [53272/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of the legislation he intends to bring forward during the current Dáil session. [52965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the annual expenditure on LIHAF; the total number of homes in each year activated via this measure; the total number of discounted homes delivered each year; and the average value of the discount, in tabular form. [52967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether any of the properties bought by the Housing Agency under the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme have been sold on to approved housing boards and have been converted to cost-rental tenancies. [52968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the prohibitions that exist preventing local authorities selling Part V, social housing acquisitions and other social homes purchased from the private market under the tenant purchase scheme; and to list each prohibition and provide a summary of its rationale. [53057/25]