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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It was. Having visited it recently, I was genuinely shocked to find that many of its fixtures and fittings were in place when I was a pupil. The school's condition is unlike that of my secondary school, which has been completely transformed. The windows are held together with plywood and there are large gaps in them. There is woodworm in old parquet floors, which are coming apart, and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I welcome all of our witnesses. They have been with us several times in recent years. I appreciate the engagement, in particular in light of the report, which we published. It is important to continue coming back to that and make sure that actions follow from it. I will return to that in a moment. I am interested in how Ms Hayes mentioned that on balance we have the same level of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: How big is that cohort?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: There are 2,500 there who may not have eligibility for HAP.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. That is interesting because it is an area of the system we probably have not focused on. Is there a cohort that will have no entitlements?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Ms Hayes is talking about fewer than 50 or 100 people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The core thing is those who currently may not have eligibility but who may develop it in the future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Obviously, the supply issues are paramount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That brings us on to the report, which talked about establishing an inspectorate for the quality of service provision, both by NGOs and by private operators. Where is DRHE on that? What have its findings been over the period since the report was first published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Are there any that fall into that category of extreme concern?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: How many of those require fire remediation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I might come back to that during the next round but I want to touch on the tenantin situscheme. From my experience in our clinic, it has had a transformative impact on people who are in the incredibly devastating position of receiving a notice of termination. Within a matter of weeks they have some comfort that the home they are in, that has been their home for many years, will be their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: We have been dealing with about 15 cases in the office and I have not come across a case where the landlord just is not interested. Is that something that happens?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Anecdotally, what is the feedback? Is it in 10% of cases that the landlord is not interested or is it 20% What sort of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: In the majority of cases the landlord is interested. The only other reason they would not be able to complete the tenant in situscheme would be where the local authority is refusing to purchase. My experience is that this is unusual but people report that the local authorities are declining the tenantin situscheme. Is that something that has been minimised as well:?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Household mismatches are not something the DRHE-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Chair. Unfortunately, the PC did not connect so I am making this connection from my phone. I want to return to the tenant in situscheme. Ms Hayes gave us an indication of where things were from her perspective. I would be interested in hearing from Simon and Threshold as to how they are finding the implementation of the scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: As practitioners, Ms Hayes was indicating that she might have a figure. She was being general in her comments in stating that it might be 10% to 20% of landlords who were not be proceeding with the scheme. Is that the experience of Simon and Threshold? My second question is on the roadblocks which were flagged at the beginning, such as domestic violence cases where people have an interest...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: In some cases, it involves elected members doing a bit of hand-holding or case management on some of these. That should not be the case and there probably should be better systems to prevent interventions for those more complicated cases. From Threshold’s perspective, does it have worries about people falling between the gaps? Is a structural change needed for those cases? Second,...