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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is not because you are not loud enough. Everybody else is too loud.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to halt and reverse the rise in homelessness. [37052/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will continue the conversation about the tenant in situ scheme because the information both the Minster and Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, have presented is not the same as the information given to local authorities in the circular of June this year. There is a cap - it is 50% above the targets that have been set for local authorities. Anything above the 50% cap must be submitted...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: For example, they tell us that the first instance focus on prevention and the requirement that all other options have to be exhausted will create further delays.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is hugely restrictive and it is a change.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What the Minister is saying is not the same as what is in the circular given to local authorities. For the sake of clarity, if a local authority has a target of 50 units, it can have a pipeline of 75 units without going back to the Department.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is stated in the circular. Every single property beyond those 75 units, no matter what it costs, has to go to the Department for individual sanction. That is what the circular says. That will take time and is causing problems. Second, the Minister introduced a new and much more restrictive set of criteria. One criterion is that all other options have to be exhausted before the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It does not exist.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: None of those-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: None of those are paying cost rents.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Housing Agency has not been able to sell any homes to approved housing bodies. Will the Minister explain that?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The circular states that for acquisitions above the local authority allocation, plus 50%, advance approval will be needed to be obtained from the Department. That is in flat contradiction to what the Minister said. The cost-rental tenant in situ scheme was meant to be that the Housing Agency would purchase the property, sell it to an approved housing body and the rent would be reduced to a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: However, they are not cost-rental tenancies. First, the Minister is restricting and causing further delays to tenants in situ for social housing. One year and a half in, the Minister is essentially admitting he got it wrong with the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme and is now trying to scramble to introduce amending legislation. What he has said is different from what is in the circular....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Marine Protected Areas (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. As the Minister of State knows, this is an issue that we have raised regularly in the committee. "Frustrating" is probably an understatement. We were led to believe at an earlier stage that the legislation was nearly ready to go at the end of last year. Now, we are hearing that it has not even been completed. Even if it is published before...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There is nothing new.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The numbers continue to rise.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the wider redress scheme, we are very keen to see the general scheme. We will engage on it constructively, as we have done previously. On the basis of the press release the Minister issued, he has made a huge mistake. A grant scheme to owners' management companies to fund very complex remediation works in multi-unit developments is a mistake. If I am reading the press...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is it a grant scheme?