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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am. The ECB rate increase has had an impact on the cost of development finance, not only the increased cost of construction materials and labour. Looking back to 2022, what concerned us at the time was that we needed to get more commencements going to feed into the pipeline for this year and indeed next. The mechanism that we used provides between €13,000 and €20,000 of a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We were able to flag it with the sector in good time. Obviously, I had to get Government approval because there is a significant cost involved. We cover the costs of the development levy waivers directly, so no local authority is out of pocket at all. These are real commencements although some have been saying they are just commencement notices. There are much stricter criteria in this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am listening to the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I wholly reject the Deputy's analysis. I will answer his question first and then look to what the alternatives are. This year, we will deliver more than 6,000 affordable homes through our delivery schemes. Last year, more than 4,000 were delivered. Looking at the pipeline of affordable housing through local authorities alone, we have approved more than 5,000 for affordable purchase. That...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am absolutely addressing the question because the Deputy's analysis of Government-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I have two minutes and 40 seconds left. We have already amended the cost-rental equity loan, as the Deputy knows. We are taking equity in that as well. While he may like to talk down cost rental, it has been an extremely popular tenure-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Chair, I am trying to answer the questions but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: They are not being blocked. I will look at the delivery measures we now have, including the first home scheme. I will give the Deputy a real-life example. The week before last-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not being allowed to answer, so I cannot answer the questions. If the Deputy keeps interrupting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy can come back in after. I ask for a little courtesy please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We were delivering no affordable homes before this Government came in. In the first year, 1,757 were delivered. In the second year, more than 4,000 - I think 4,017 - were delivered. This year, more than 6,000 will be delivered. Delivering homes through local authorities for-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is not showing any respect because he is not letting me answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will not be badgered. If I am asked a question, I am allowed to answer it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: If the Deputy keeps coming back and forth on this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----we could be here all day. The difference in our approach is we have published a plan that is funded, that shows the delivery and publishes, on a quarterly basis, what we deliver on social and affordable housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will say no more, Chair. I am not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----getting into this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I have not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I think-----