Results 321-340 of 708 for speaker:Rory Hearne
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: What was the reason for that?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: In the context of delivering social housing, inflation is an ongoing consideration. Everybody is talking about it. The Minister is trying to bring about an increase in the delivery of such housing. However, he is saying that basically we have more or less the same budget this year as last to facilitate delivery.
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: Is the Minister disappointed that his decision has affected the delivery of social housing projects?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: My final question relates to affordable housing. The figure provided in respect of affordable housing units is 6,400. Could the Minister break that down in terms of vacant, cost-rental and affordable purchase houses? I would question the officials in the context of vacant housing units being included in the numbers for affordable housing. Can the Minister explain how such units are being...
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: It was 4,979 in 2024 and it is 4,100 for 2025. Is that right?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: Sorry, it is output versus target. There is no affordability measure regarding vacant properties. If someone receives the vacant property grant, there is no affordability assessment. In other words, there is no assessment of whether he or she needs or does not need affordable housing. In addition, there is nothing which guarantees that the housing being delivered through that mechanism is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: I would ask the Department to look at that. I think it should be recategorised.
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: I will see how many of my questions I can get through in five minutes. My first question is on affordable purchase housing and home ownership rates among young people between the ages of 25 to 29. Less than one quarter of people in that age group own their own home and there is no real sign of that changing. My question is on the lack of ambition in increasing home ownership and what is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: To follow on from Deputy Ó Broin, when can the Minister give us the LDA analysis of the cost savings on the regulations?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: It is disappointing. Maybe in future decisions it would be helpful to have that evidence directly from the source. We completely support the LDA in what it is doing around social and affordable housing delivery but there are questions about what is in its own interest in increasing units and so on. There is no increase in funding for communal facilities in social housing in the Estimates....
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: Is there any plan to fund communal facilities within cost-rental and affordable rental housing developments?
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: This is something that will have to be looked at. As we increase the delivery of cost-rental housing, we must ensure that sufficient community leisure facilities are provided within those schemes. Turning to Uisce Éireann's capital allocation, the 2024 Estimate was €1.03 billion, while that for 2025 is just under €1 billion. I estimate there is roughly a 4% fall. I am...
- Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Rory Hearne: The concept of affordable housing for elderly people was mentioned. Given we know many elderly people would not qualify for it, especially in terms of renting, has this aspect been explored and the possibility of delivering it examined? On student accommodation, and while I understand it is under the remit of a different Department, does the Minister have any comment on providing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: I thank the witnesses for attending. I will go to the people from Threshold first with my set of questions. They highlighted the concern that rents will increase as a result of the latest changes. What level of rent increase do they foresee? Do they see homelessness rising as a result of those changes and will they give some estimation of the impact? My other question is to the landlord...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: I have question for Threshold and then one for the landlords. First, on the scale of the housing crisis, from rents to homeless, the Housing Commission called for a radical reset of policy. Threshold has outlined its agreement with that. Does it see evidence of that in the current Government policy? Is the Government doing what is needed to address this emergency?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: Great. For the landlord organisations, Threshold’s research shows that most renters do not want to rent. Just 6% of those surveyed are renting by choice. Most renters want to own their own homes or be in social housing and have permanent security of tenure. Is there an issue with that? Just 8% of housing in Ireland in the 1990s was owned by private landlords. There was majority...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I emphasise the question of resourcing. As to how the RTB responds to this, it is a difficult question, but given the complexity of the new measures that have been introduced, do the witnesses expect that there will be an increase in disputes as a result? Maybe they could give us some sense of their expectation. Has the RTB done analysis of the work...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: Does the RTB have an estimate of the number of landlords it thinks are still unregistered out of that 25,000?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: The outstanding figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: Just the rent question then.