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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under pillar 3, we reference the reactivation of vacant stock and unfinished housing estates. It is there in the plan. They are there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Barry for his questions. He is right that under my watch as Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of people living in emergency housing has increased. It is my responsibility to put in place every support I can to prevent people from ending up homeless or in emergency accommodation and to try to remove people from such accommodation as quickly as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: No. Applications can continue to be made. We have not reached the drawdown limit. As per the latest status I have in January, we have only reached €107 million of a €200 million fund. Based on the estimates for loans approved, that equates to about €186 million that will be drawn down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Kildare County Council is one of the ten local authorities that reached its limit and so we have reallocated resources to Kildare over the course of 2018. We are now engaging with Kildare County Council and the other nine local authorities that have reached their allocation limits about ensuring that they will continue to receive applications while I continue my discussions with the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: They are ongoing. I have regular engagement with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, so they are ongoing at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We had to delay one particular meeting on it because a motion of no confidence in the Minister, Deputy Harris, had been tabled and we had to attend in the Dáil. Another meeting was delayed due to a Brexit meeting. However, this is something we have been discussing. It has been on the radar of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and my Department since the end of last year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: May I come back on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: That is not how they found out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Any confusion is caused by people asking questions that they either know the answer to but want to cause confusion-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Hold on, Deputy. The Deputy should please show me the respect I am showing him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am trying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: One important thing is that any loan approval that has been given will be honoured - of course it will be. Applications are still being received and it is a matter for the Housing Agency and the credit committee of each local authority how they deal with those applications and whether they give approval or not. That is what is happening and it is continuing. I have been very clear with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In January, either in response to a parliamentary question or when speaking in the Dáil, I said we had reached about 50% drawdown, which suggested we had been more successful than we anticipated, given €200 million was the tranche for three years. At the beginning of February, in reply to a parliamentary question, I reiterated that point and said it required further funding to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I have not seen it. It is not from my Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It was not released from my Department. I do not know what it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Let us step back. I am taking my time to answer the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy waves this memo and says I have been causing confusion. I am telling him I do not know what the memo is and that it did not come from my Department, and that is what I have been informed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am telling the Deputy that memo did not come from my Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not have the memo. It is not my memo.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The FOI was released by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, not by my Department. It is not my memo.