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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: Therefore, Galway County Council will not meet the target it set for itself of 265. What was the target the Department set for the council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: Is it correct that the 265 that Galway County Council will not meet are baked into the 341 for next year already and the homes have rolled on into next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I suppose that will skew the council's targets next year. It will only perhaps meet them, rather than exceed them, by whatever figure they gave me earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Chairman. I would appreciate that.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Proposed Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the new legislation on tips and service charges will be up-and-running. [53836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Tidy Towns (27 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 137. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures that are being considered in providing grant assistance to support the important work carried out by local tidy towns committees across the country. [53841/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2023 (27 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the BIK changes introduced in Budget 2023 which will have a huge impact on workers during the cost-of-living crisis. [53902/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the witnesses for attending the committee and ask them to thank their teams because they are at the coal face of the housing crisis. We appreciate everything their teams do, especially the team in South Dublin County Council which helps me and my constituents on a daily basis but also Fingal County Council which provides a similar service in its community. It is great to welcome...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I will comment on south Dublin this time and as I said, I will return to Fingal. I will start by acknowledging the positives because they are not necessarily always aired. South Dublin County Council residents have not been shy about coming forward for the first-home shared equity scheme and I understand a number of them have already received their certificates of eligibility. As of June...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: The Deputy's time is up. We might move on if that is okay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: The time is well up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: The Fine Gael slot is next and there are then four members to come in on the following round, so we should have enough room for everybody to speak. I can allow the Deputy in after that if he wishes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: We have Sinn Féin up next. I call Deputy Gould.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I will not be lenient because the next slot is my own. I will watch it and if I have extra time, Senator Cummins can use it to finish his questions. I want to ask a similar question to that asked by Deputy Gould around previous targets. Given the context we all know in terms of cost inflation, supply chain issues, and tender hesitancy as has been noted, will both councils meet their 2022...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: If not, does Mr. McLoughlin expect to hit them next year and therefore exceed next year's targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: Fantastic. I will ask Fingal about its housing delivery action plan because I concentrated on south Dublin earlier. Reference is made to 15,000 units with planning permission that are undeveloped, 3,000 of which are due to be under construction this year, leaving about 12,000. Ms Farrelly may not have the details to hand but does she know the ratio of apartments to homes in respect of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank Ms Farrelly. The Land Development Agency intends to deliver approximately 1,000 homes in Fingal. Can she talk me through how that will work? Is that the agency's land bank or is it a joint project? What are the practicalities of that project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: To pick up on something about bats that South Dublin County Council's chief executive spoke about earlier, I think bats are breaking a lot of people's hearts in the county at the moment. I know the Chairman raised an interesting concept around it. The point Mr. McLoughlin outlined about Clonburris and having to go back again to the drawing board for more assessments sounds frustrating and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: We are out of time Deputy. Is that something that can be provided quickly? No, it cannot be provided.