Results 261-280 of 1,040,557 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív OR speaker:Michael McNamara OR speaker:Michael Collins)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy will get a chance to come back in.
- 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)
Darragh O'Brien: The principle of the purchase of homes of tenants in situ is one that everybody in the House supports.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Last year, we bought 1,830 homes. The original target had been 200. It was reset to 1,500 and we increased it further. Deputy Troy, the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, and I met the chief executive of Westmeath County Council yesterday. For clarification, so that everyone is clear on this, there is no ceiling on the number of homes a local authority can purchase under the scheme...
- 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)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- 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)
Darragh O'Brien: The cost-rental tenant in situ scheme is working very well and has been set up on an administrative basis.
- 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)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt the Deputy once. I ask him to let me answer. The cost-rental tenant in situ scheme does exist. It is administered by the Housing Agency and we have purchased more than 200 homes in that space already.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: None of those-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Let me answer the question.
- 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)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is in bad form today. I do not know why.
- 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)
Catherine Connolly: Please, Deputy. The time is running out and other Deputies want to come in.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will attempt to answer the question because I respect Members when they ask questions. They might respect that I always speak through the Chair.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputies should speak through the Chair. Time is running out.