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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Therefore, 154 is what has been delivered. In terms of derelict site properties, I think I am right in saying that the council had identified 77 properties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: In terms of vacant sites or derelict properties, the council is obliged to keep a register. Are any of those properties or sites in the ownership of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council? If so, how many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: The council is doing a great job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I will move on. I live in Dún Laoghaire and I am very aware of that area, although I am not taking anyone on a trip of the geography of Dún Laoghaire. I would be very familiar with properties that are empty and that are in the ownership of the council and, indeed, I walked around outside a few of them recently. The council has empty properties in the town of Dún Laoghaire....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: With regard to the council’s register or inventory of properties, is Mr. Curran confident that is up to date? As chief executive, is he fully aware of the properties in the ownership of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, or as much as he can be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Can Mr. Curran confirm if the council is currently purchasing or competing in the open market for properties? Someone suggested to me that Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council had recently purchased a house for in excess of €600,000 in the town. I do not know if that is correct and I am asking Mr. Curran. Is the council competing at that level, in around the €400,000 to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: The council has not purchased a house in the last 12 months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: This is not about the specifics. It is that the council is in the market. It is purchasing houses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Okay, there were certain circumstances. I appreciate that. Mr. Curran said that if he were to make an ask, it is to have more residential zoned land in the county, and I know it is a tight county. How much land is in the ownership of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and how much of that land is zoned residential?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: The detail I want here today is how many hectares are zoned residential versus the hectares of land within the ownership of the council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I do not want to take up too much time. The council might provide the committee with those figures. It was an issue that Mr. Curran himself raised in terms of the zoned land within Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. I think it would be helpful. I would like to know that about every local authority but, as the witnesses are here today, I ask them to provide the committee with an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: An overview would be helpful to get an understanding of how much land the council has that is zoned residential.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Thank you very much.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Young Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Well said.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Young Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank all our guests for their comprehensive submissions, which very much echoed what we heard during the opening session of our meeting last Friday. Key issues and recurring themes included, in their words, diversity, inclusion, integration, accomplishing more together - that is a really good line - choices in education, social mobility and access to supports for people suffering from...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Young Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Well said.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Young Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Evan, Niamh, Karina and Ashling for their contributions. I will focus in particular on Karina and Ashling if they do not mind. They shared with us, and touched a raw nerve with us, as regards their lived experiences, which were very powerful. We have listened and heard. We have had similar representations in the past about CAMHS and mental health. These contributions are very...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister and thank him for coming to the House to set out this important Bill of his. I am generally supportive of the content of the Bill. We will need to tease out one or two issues and I will flag them to the Minister rather than tease them out now. This can be done later on in the process. I also want to thank the Oireachtas Library and Research Service which has done...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Thirty, I think.

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Is there a difference?