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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 543. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update for passports by persons (details supplied) which have been overdue since 15 June 2022. [34464/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The committee is joined from the Irish Council for Social Housing by Mr. Pat Doyle, president, and Ms Tina Donaghy, vice president. We are also joined remotely by assistant professor Orla Hegarty from University College Dublin, UCD. The opening statements have been circulated to members and with their permission, we will take them as read. Has Ms Hegarty prepared an opening statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: If Ms Hegarty wishes to read her opening statement, she is more than welcome to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that. There was a group outside Leinster House and I wanted to attend to them. I thank the witnesses for appearing before is. I was here for the meeting's beginning but missed its middle, so I apologise. One of the principal issues around the cost of delivery is that it impacts our ability to deliver – that is stating the obvious – and particularly the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is it fair to say that is not really at a policy level but a project management level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Was that with or without the €100,000 subsidy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That would have brought it in between €175,000 and €195,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The serviced sites have merged into the affordable fund. Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is encouraging.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am anxious to let in Ms Hegarty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In the context of the two specific sites and the numbers I mentioned, there is very little in there for speculation or developer profit. I do not understand how that comment could relate to the two sites I referenced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I suppose they would be similar to any Housing for All sites where properties would be built under the affordable purchase scheme. That is where the land is owned by the State and the process would go to market to see how many units could be built and for what amount. If that comes in at €300,000, the maximum subsidy is €100,000, so the price per unit would be €200,000....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In Dublin city, the majority of available land is public rather than private. I come back to the point about there being no plans for affordable purchase for people earning €36,000 and €80,000 in Dublin city. Those sites I mentioned, which are being developed by Dublin City Council, would deliver units at earnings of €51,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There are other sites in construction as well. They are in Kildonan and many other sites planned by Dublin City Council that will form public housing on public land. They are all part of Housing for All. The worry is that inflation in construction costs will evaporate the affordability we have built in. I accept Ms Hegarty's point on the €100,000 subsidy and how sustainable it is....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am very familiar with the schemes at both O'Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road, and to be fair, they are from before Housing for All. They were developed by the previous Government and they did not have the €100,000 subsidy or the affordable purchase fund. The biggest problem at O'Devaney Gardens and the reason we could only deliver 80% public housing on the site was that the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his plans for housing provision in north-west Dublin. [33216/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his plans for affordable purchase, cost rental and social housing in Dublin 9 and 11. [33217/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the jobseeker's benefit application by a person (details supplied). [33201/22]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister and the committee for processing the Bill, particularly the sections that deal with scrambler bikes. As the Minister is aware, it is an issue that I am very passionate about. The legislation will make a real difference to the lives of people living in my area. Is the Minister in a position to give a commitment on the timeframe of the passage of the Bill through the...