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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 just saying, we discussed this at length earlier. Obviously, the Deputy had other meetings-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is fine. I know that. I am not having a pop, but we discussed this at length earlier. We have said we are looking at the completion time. The Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, answered that in detail earlier as well. Staged payments, by the way, if we brought them in, would require additional inspections. If you are going to pay €20,000 at the start for €20,000...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No, it is not just Waterford. Anyway, I know the Deputy is out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No, that is not correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It does.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: They are not really saying that. That is what Deputy Gould is saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Fair play to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Sitting on empty profits is an odd way to do it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Last year, there were in excess of 1,800 homes purchased through the tenant in situ scheme. Approximately 97 homes were purchased through the cost-rental tenants in situ scheme. We launched that on 1 April, which is just more than a year ago. Other bids have been accepted or acquired under that. We have just below 100 tenants who have been able to purchase their home through the first...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is the residential tenancies. Recently, we wrote to the committee on the pre-legislative scrutiny side of this, which has been concluded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Bill is nearly completed itself. We will be coming back before the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will let Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, come in. The part B fire regulations have been important. That review started in 2011. It has just concluded, if you can believe that. I do not know whether the committee has looked at the final version of the review but there are significant changes which will make a big difference particularly to over-the-shop housing to ensure...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: To be honest, we have not come across too many, be it cost-rental tenant in situ or tenant in situ, once the landlord and tenant are in the process. The structural report is required because we are purchasing a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not expect cost-rental tenant in situ to be expansive enough to do thousands of them. We have had about 281 homes referred. The bidding process is relatively early in it. We had issues with some of it. These are properties in the main that are occupied by people above the social housing limits. The cost-rental net income limits apply as well. There have not been that many of them...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I have not come across loads of them but if that one has gone back to the Housing Agency it is one we can certainly look at. Obviously, an offer may not have been made yet because of surveys being done but we can have a look at it certainly. I have not across that as a major issue, to be honest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator Cummins is right. I am actually quite content so far that we have schemes off the ground. If you take Blackrock Villas in Cork city, there are 274 units in that one development alone. That is the largest private sector apartment development in Cork city in over a decade. Over the five schemes, we have 582 units. A further seven proposals are with the Housing Agency for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is the reason we did this. Some people call this a bailout for developers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It is total nonsense. I am assuming in Cork city those 274 apartments are ones that will be welcomed by most people. First-time buyers are going to be able to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It will be brilliant.