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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We have a plan-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----that is working on the ground.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin, you might show some respect-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am endeavouring to do so. I did not interrupt Deputy Ó Broin once. I know he gets a little bit hot-headed from time to time. The reality is his plan is full of holes. His promise of home ownership is an illusion. It is a convoluted illusion of leasehold affordable purchase that not one bank has said it would lend to. It is a scheme that would restrict to whom people could sell...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin picks figures out of the sky because he believes they will be popular. The reality is the public sees through his alternative plan, which is a home someone will never own, because that it what Sinn Féin is proposing.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I take it very seriously. I have respect for this House, unlike you or your party.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: - Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland, now in its third year of implementation, sets out a comprehensive suite of actions aimed at addressing affordability in the housing sector; - Housing for All and the Affordable Housing Act 2021, have put in place...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt once.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We know this is not correct. Deputy Ó Broin knows this is not correct. It is also very misleading. Deputy Ó Broin himself admits there are concerns to be addressed with his party's scheme. His proposed solutions to the concerns are simply quite bizarre. On 3 October, in response to questions from the Business Post on security risks and securitisation risks with the scheme,...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Do they recognise the inherent unfairness in a cohort of purchasers having a State guarantee, a safety net that Sinn Féin is providing, if they were to default on their mortgage, while the majority of other mortgage holders would not? Are they aware of, or have they had conversations on, the state aid issues for such a guarantee scheme? To further complicate matters, Deputy Ó...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am also interested in what Deputy Ó Broin has to say to a couple earning the average wage on a joint income of €90,000. Deputy Ó Broin floundered on this the last time we debated it on RTÉ. His plan excludes such couples entirely from the Sinn Féin scheme. Through his plan, he is telling them Sinn Féin does not want to know about them. Does Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Interim Remediation Scheme for the funding of eligible emergency fire safety defect works in apartments and duplexes has been in place since December 2023. The Scheme, which is being administered by the Housing Agency on a nationwide basis, is open to applications from apartment Owners’ Management Companies (OMCs) via the Housing Agency’s website. In the period since...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Addressing homelessness is a priority for Government. Critical to supporting households to exit homelessness is increasing the supply of housing. Record state investment of over €5bn has been made available this year to support the largest State home building programme ever. Budget 2025 will provide €6bn in capital to help us to deliver more social, affordable and cost rental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government has targeted delivery of 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency and via the First Home scheme, a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021 sets out the statutory arrangements for the administration of Affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All commits to increasing the housing options available to older people to facilitate ageing in place with dignity and independence, including the development of a policy on right-sizing. The Housing for All policy objective to make more efficient use of existing housing stock includes tasking my Department with the development of a national policy on right-sizing and to explore...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department is currently putting arrangements in place regarding a phased commencement of the enacted Planning and Development Bill 2023 to facilitate the transition to the new legislation across the planning system and to take into account the need to liaise further with local authorities, planning bodies and other stakeholders. It should be noted that the existing provisions in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82, 440 and 441 together. Tackling vacancy is a key priority for this Government. The Vacant Homes Action Plan, which I published in January 2023, built on Pathway 4 of Housing for All and set out the various actions that were being pursued to return vacant properties back into use as homes. Earlier this year I published an update on the Action Plan which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Ghaeltacht (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Tá Grúpa Idir-Rannach (a chuimsíonn mo Roinnse, an Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán (RTCEGSM) agus Údarás na Gaeltachta) fós ag leanúint lena chuid oibre chun treoir phleanála faoi leith a fhorbairt do cheantair Ghaeltachta. Tá Grúpa Oibre ar leith ann chomh maith atá...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing out to 2030 comprising of 54,000 affordable homes to be delivered by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency and through the First Home Scheme, which is a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. The Plan set ambitious targets for affordable housing and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Government maintains a strong focus on the use of vacant and underutilised public land for housing. The transfer of over 30 state owned sites to the Land Development Agency (LDA) for regeneration and development of affordable and social housing has now been agreed under the Government’s Housing for All Plan, and following assessment of state lands identified in the LDA’s...