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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: A number of these issues were dealt with at previous hearings. There are a number of legacy issues. For example, there is a complicated clawback relating to affordable housing involving the DDDA, especially in the later schemes. Would the community like that to be addressed in the legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I am not sure how many units are in the housing trust. Size and sustainability are issues. Is the housing trust an adequate size for it to be sustainable if sinking funds, etc., are included in the Bill? Sometimes a certain number of units is necessary to make a housing trust sustainable. Is the housing trust large enough to bear the costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: To whom in Dublin City Council is Mr. Lambe referring? Does he mean the executive or the elected councillors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: The elected councillors will do the nominations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I imagine the list would be drawn up by the elected councillors rather than the executive. We can clarify this in the Bill. When he came before the committee, Mr. Owen Keegan, the Dublin city manager, had the view that he would be drawing up the list, but it has since been clarified that it will be the elected councillors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I imagine both. The nominations would go to the councillors from those nominating bodies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: They will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Mr. Moss's submission refers to temporary usage of land for urban gardening or greening. Something given temporarily is always very difficult to get back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Does he have procedures in mind that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: There is the possibility of a surplus of money after the dissolution of the DDDA. How should that surplus be used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: The remit of the DDDA was social regeneration, which was very ground-breaking at the time because previously the focus had been on the physical regeneration rather than on the community. I imagine the argument will be made that the pension contributions currently with the DDDA should be transferred to the Department to increase the surplus available. Would the community agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Previous evidence given to this committee suggests that while the pension liabilities will not fall for approximately ten years, they are a financial liability. If that liability were taken out of the surplus, there would be less surplus money from the winding up of the DDDA. Have the witnesses examined those figures in detail and have they recommendations on how they would be broken down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Have those conversations about creating a pot of money to be invested in social regeneration taken place within the committee and working with the DDDA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: It might be an interesting discussion to have with the DDDA from the community's point of view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: In order to try to generate the maximum pot of money, it is important the community representatives and the DDDA have that discussion before it is dissolved. If long-term pension liabilities are taken into consideration it would reduce the possible surplus. I am suggesting a course of action to the community.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I might have to give it directions. That is probably not my role. Communities need to build a pot of money. Within the strategic development zone, SDZ, which is not for discussion at this meeting, the levies are site-specific. The communities, DCC and the Department will have to examine the broader prospects of securing a pot of money. There are major developers and NAMA in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank Ms Corr and everyone else for their submissions. Before I open the meeting to questions from other members, I note that although the things that went wrong within the Dublin Docklands Development Authority are often pointed out, its successes are not mentioned often enough. Ms Corr and Mr. Lambe covered some of those successes in their submissions. Certainly, the community came up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I wish to ask one question regarding the housing trust. Legislation is currently going through the House on the sale of local authority properties and voluntary properties. Voluntary housing has not, as yet, come on to the market. Does the memorandum of association for the housing trust fall under the voluntary housing area? If so, would it be affected by the new legislation going through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: So it would be caught with the new legislation concerning the differential sale of properties. Has Mr. Lambe looked at that?