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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the gross and net average cost to the State per HAP recipient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56089/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's examination of the creation of a system of holding rental deposits as set out in housing policy objective 2.12 of Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of homes delivered though the Croí Cónaithe (cities) scheme to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56092/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applications for the Croí Cónaithe towns grant; the number approved and the number of drawdowns, broken down by local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of job vacancies that are currently yet to be filled at An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56094/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 781 of 21 April 2021, the current status of the programme for Government commitment to incentivise local authorities to bring forward pilot participatory budgeting projects; when details of same will be announced; the funding mechanism to be put in place; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Chair. The Bill is about strengthening the Tyrrelstown amendment. The Tyrrelstown amendment, as I am sure most committee members will be aware, was introduced to ensure that where ten or more rental homes are being sold together, renters would not be evicted and would be able to stay in their homes as long as they are paying their rent and comply with all the other normal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The principal Act in it is the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and it would be amended so that, in section 35A, subsection (3) would be deleted. That is technically what the Bill does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, the reasons for exemption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: No. That is the exemption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is the information I have, from Second Stage and from the Minister. The Minister obtained it from the RTB. The Minister was keen to stress that this was a sample. This is what the RTB was able to provide to the Minister and the Department. They are not saying these are the definitive figures but from what they were able to find, they were able to find four uses of the clause or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, there are difficulties around the way it was constructed. There are differences concerning undue hardship as well. I think we all are aware of individual landlords who are reliant on one particular property for their day-to-day income or pension. Proving undue hardship when it involves the sale of ten or more units, however, is going to be much more difficult. I can see the intention...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: From my knowledge of this, in terms of compliance with the amendment, the onus is on the landlord. Before the Tyrrelstown amendment, if a landlord was selling ten, 20 or 30 homes or a full apartment block, it was legal for that landlord to issue eviction notices on the basis of sale, the same as an individual or small landlord. The onus would be on landlords to ensure they are compliant in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would have to look at it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Just to clarify, for most renters in this situation, nothing changes. They will still have the protection of the Tyrrelstown amendment. In the small number of cases where, in my view, attempts are made to try to circumvent this amendment, that possibility would be removed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes. That has certainly happened in a number of instances, Tathony House being one such example. I think it has happened out in St. Helen's Court, Dún Laoghaire, as well. Therefore, by utilising this clause without necessarily being able to prove it in the end, for someone trying to get vacant possession, it can still have that effect. It kind of undermines the amendment, although the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I think it was arbitrary. It was to specifically exclude small- and medium-sized landlords from this. My view is that it would not have passed if they had been included. There would not have been that cross-party support for it, so-----