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Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: -----and one can touch and see them. I ask that the Senator please not come to me and tell me there are no houses.

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: I have been on sites all over the State, and there are real houses. The Senator should try to push one over and she will find out how real they are. This mantra that no houses are being built is not true. It is not fair to all those people who are involved in delivering houses, and who will this year deliver more than 8,000 social houses.

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: Senator Warfield referred to the 7,900 houses, which is the figure for this year. There will be more than 7,900 houses provided this year. The Senator might be referring to next year, when the figure will be 10,000. The full 10,000 houses to be delivered next year is a combination of direct build, acquisition and leasing. That will be 10,000 new houses in the system, not all of which will...

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: -----and it should not, and cannot, happen again.

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: On RPZs, I have often had colleagues of different parties in the Houses looking for their areas to be zoned. It should not be an ambition to have one's town or county in an RPZ. Such as zone means that people are paying too much rent. People should not campaign to be in an RPZ. I often get criticisms from colleagues in my own town that the area is not in a zone. There is a science behind...

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: On the staffing issue, local authorities have been given 700 additional staff over the past 18 months to work in this system. They need more staff in many areas and we have asked them to put together their applications for staff that are mission specific to housing and housing delivery. This is being responded to when they need that staff. We recognise that housing teams had to be...

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: The legislation is also committed to doing that. Much of the purpose-built student accommodation is under a licensing arrangement which is why it does not fit in under the current situation regarding rent pressure zones and so on. It is a legal issue which is currently being dealt with and it will be in the Bill which will come forward in the coming weeks. We will have a chance to debate...

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: We try to if we can. Senator Warfield had another question but I cannot find it.

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: That is something that we can look at in the legislation. We have been involved in some of the Union of Students in Ireland campaigns such as the Home for Study campaign. We have seen cases of properties that are not suitable to be advertised that were taken down. The last time I checked there were a couple of hundred rooms or properties to rent. There are other solutions for students...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (18 Oct 2018)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 341 and 342 together. I note the motion passed by Dáil Éireann on 19 June 2018 regarding Dublin Fire Brigade's emergency ambulance service. Responsibility for the provision of emergency medical services, including pre-hospital emergency care, rests with the Health Service Executive (HSE), which operates the National Ambulance Service (NAS)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (17 Oct 2018)

Damien English: I refer to the reply to Question No. 677 of 16 October 2018 which sets out the position on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (17 Oct 2018)

Damien English: The provision of fire services in local authority areas is a statutory function of the individual fire authorities under the provisions of the Fire Services Acts, 1981 and 2003. My Department supports the fire authorities through setting general policy and through a range of service development programmes. The issuing of 1916 – 2016 Commemorative medals was a commitment in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (16 Oct 2018)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 654 and 655 together. The Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 provides the statutory framework for the establishment of the Pyrite Resolution Board and for the making of a pyrite remediation scheme to be implemented by the Board with support from the Housing Agency. The pyrite remediation scheme is a scheme of “last resort” for affected homeowners who...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (16 Oct 2018)

Damien English: The Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014, known within the industry as BCAR, require owners, builders, and registered construction professionals to demonstrate through the Statutory Register of Building Control Activity that the works or buildings concerned have been designed and constructed in compliance with Building Regulations. The roles and responsibilities of owners, designers,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Damien English: There is an ongoing conversation on the local needs aspect of the rural planning guidelines. We expect to see some movement on that in the autumn. To be clear, more than 6,000 one-off houses have been built every year in this country for the last several years, so many one-off houses are still being built. Each local authority is its own planning authority. The local councillors will vote...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Damien English: That is true.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Damien English: That is its choice. I have to judge it on its choice which is to do nothing but talk. We have had five or six years of jobs budgets which are very important. Deputy Micheál Martin was the first to claim, as did others, that the Action Plan for Jobs had nothing to do with job creation, yet when we produced the action plan and said we would create 100,000 jobs, everyone laughed and...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Damien English: It was factual.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Damien English: I thank my colleagues for sharing their time. I welcome the budget. It is quite a good budget. It is a prudent and balanced budget, which is key. We were using the money of the taxpayer wisely in this budget. I have listened to people today and in the past weeks comment on the different options and choices. Budgets are about choices and direction. I heard many speeches today about...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Damien English: We need to do both.