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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I might take up that line of questioning. The question Deputy Gould rightly put was whether the discretion that is being applied was within the scope of the Act. Many Members of the House believe there is no discretion and it is just a matter of applying it. Would that be a fair assessment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: There is an obligation under the legislation as passed by the Oireachtas. We are going to impose other levies such as the zoned land tax from January and there will be no discretion in how they are applied.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I take on board many of the points made by Mr. Walsh. I have seen derelict sites in my own area and it is very frustrating when there is a legislation in place that many people believe would help tackle dereliction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Capacity issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Both the local authorities have made a very fair point. Both also have a figure for affordable housing. Could they separate that out into affordable rental and affordable purchase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: What about Limerick?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Out of those 1,200 unit, how many are affordable rental and how many are affordable purchase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will deal with affordable purchase first. Is affordable purchase being delivered on local authority sites? Is the local authority the developer and the body that will sell them or is that being done in partnership with a developer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Is the subsidy available to the local authority from the Department for affordable purchase €50,000?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: It depends on the density.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Nine units would appear to be an appallingly low number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The Government is providing €100,000 off the price of construction for homes that could be sold at that price.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course. That is why I hope the local authority would construct and build homes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I imagine there are many people in Limerick looking on and hoping to purchase a home. They see vacant sites owned by the local authority and the Government providing between €50,000 and €100,000 off the price of construction and they wonder why they cannot buy a home from the local authority.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The question is why the council is not providing it for the affordable purchase scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will refer to the previous question asked about land acquisition. Are you saying the local authority ran out of land to build affordable purchase homes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: What is the split between affordable purchase and affordable rental homes from Waterford's perspective?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I have run out of time. I call Deputy Leddin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: You will find that in previous meetings, a number of Deputies have slipped in to calling the officials "manager".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy could use an e-bike. The regulations for that are not in yet.