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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: I will allow Deputy Boyd Barrett to speak for 30 seconds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: Deputy Boyd Barrett asked Ms Bryce if the National Development Finance Agency was looking at any Part V projects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: I will make a comment on that. The State has land in that area and I agree in part with what Deputy Boyd Barrett is saying. We need to move on the land that we have right now, which we are not doing in many cases. Rather than moving further down the road, we need to work with what we have now and keep adding to it. Those sites will come on-stream soon enough. We should focus on building...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: I am asking the same question from a different point of view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: As Chair, I am also a committee member and I am entitled to ask the same questions as the Deputy. On both sides of the coin we all want the homes as an end result. My view is slightly different. Do the witnesses have a view on that matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: On behalf of the committee, I thank all our witnesses for attending and for the information they continue to supply. Some are repeat attendees. If there is any further information they want us to have, we would appreciate if they would send it on to us. I know we have delayed our witnesses this morning and gone well over time. It is a crucial part of this committee's work, so we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: On behalf of the joint committee, I welcome from the Irish Council for Social Housing, ICSH, Dr. Donal McManus and Mr. Sean O'Connor. I also welcome Dr. Rory Hearne from NUI Maynooth. By virtue by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence given to the committee. However, if they are directed by it to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: I call on Dr. Hearne to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: Will the Deputy, please, move on to his question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: We are pressed for time. I will bring in Dr. McManus and Dr. Hearne, and if we have time for quick-fire questions, we will do that, but we have to be out of the room by 12.10 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: Will we do one minute of quick-fire questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: We have run completely over and I am sorry for that. On behalf of the committee I thank the witnesses for their ongoing attendance at the committee and if there is further information that is considered relevant to our research and ongoing policy-making, please send it on. This meeting is now adjourned and the next meeting of the joint committee will be held next Tuesday, 20 November at 11...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: Today’s meeting will involve resuming consideration of the impact of Brexit on Ireland's housing market. On behalf of the committee I wish to welcome to today’s meeting from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government Mr. David Kelly, Mr. Paul Hogan, Ms Sarah Neary, and Mr. John Wickham. I draw the attention of the witnesses to the fact that by virtue of section...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: On a point of clarification, what is the remit of the accreditation bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: That involves looking at a whole-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: Just to let Ms Neary know, we have-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: I just want to clarify something. Ms Neary was filling in for somebody this morning at the last minute so she might not have seen the pack. We do have some information from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation in the pack that deals with competitiveness and the bulletin. I do not know if Senator Conway had a chance to examine that but we have written to the majority of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: If Deputy Ó Broin does not mind I will tag my question on to the end of his because I have to go to the Chamber at 12.30 p.m. and then to the Business Committee at 1 p.m. Mr. Tom Healy of the Nevin Economic Research Institute, NERI, mentioned to us last week - I am not quoting him word for word – that in general we have had nearly two decades of a dysfunctional housing market....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: No apologies have been received.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Maria Bailey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members and visitors in the Public Gallery are requested to ensure that for the duration of the meeting mobile telephones are turned off completely or switched to aeroplane, safe or flight mode, depending on the device. It is not sufficient to put telephones in silent mode as this will continue to cause interference with the...