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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: When this Dáil started in February 2020, the only toolbox that the local authorities had was to build social housing. If the council was going to build a development, that is all it could provide and everybody in that estate was going to be earning less than €42,000, and the limit was lower again in some parts of the country. Inevitably, the only tool available to the councils...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I got the impression from Ms Curley’s answer that the councils do not yet have an affordable purchase scheme in place. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I mean a selling scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is the word I was looking for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I warn Deputies that we have reached the end of the rota. Rather than go through a new circle, I will ask for lámha suas from anybody else who wants to come in. With regard to voids, the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, issued its report on Friday, and Limerick had a 56-week waiting time for voids and in Waterford it was 31 weeks. Rather than me editorialising, I will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Ms Curley is talking about long-term voids.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: To continue Deputy O’Donnell’s point, the council’s issue is money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What is the position in Waterford?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That would have brought Waterford to having one of the best performances.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I can see Deputy Gould is shocked with that answer and I was too. It shows how the housing crisis is very different in different parts of the country. Four speakers are indicating. Does everybody wish to speak? We might do the officials a favour. Rather than the officials coming back a second time, we will give all members eight minutes each and have one more round. Is that okay? Okay....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Thank you, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy, you got an extra minute so you would stay within the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: No. You are not doing that either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will take an opportunity to speak and will let Deputy Gould in for a moment at the end. To reflect Deputy O'Donoghue's point it is important that we say to anyone looking in who is from a town or village that a huge number of the schemes available in Housing for All are available in towns and villages. I refer to schemes such as Croí Cónaithe, the affordable rental and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is it 40% one bedroom properties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I know in Dublin city the demand for one and two beds is 80%. Would Dr. Daly say that it is maybe not as high as that in Limerick but in the same area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: If we are building social housing should we build one and two bedrooms in order to satisfy the need for housing units that exists and given that many of these households have been on the list for some time it is likely to be the family-sized units they will have as well. What about Waterford?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Again, close to 80% of the demand would be for one and two bedrooms.