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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: The programme for Government refers to putting in place measures that would allow tenants to avoid future rental increase shocks, yet on Monday we learned that, according to daft.ie, there have been year-on-year rent increases of 11% nationally. There has been an increase of 14% in my home city, Cork. For tenants who have suffered rent increases of 14% and more over the past year, the rent...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: The rent pressure zones are not working.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: The Minister says there is no need for a legal framework and talks about a working alliance with USI. Has he asked USI whether it feels there is a need for a legal framework because, increasingly, I hear about issues and problems that are arising in the digs sector? One in ten students lives in digs. This is not surprising given the fact that the major student accommodation providers in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I would say that students should have legal protection for their deposits; rent controls should apply; if there are grounds for eviction, they should not be unlimited; and any student should be entitled to a reasonable notice period. The last census showed that 8% of homeless persons in the State were students, which is incredible. The Minister said that he has not been asked to regulate...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if regulations will be provided to protect the rights of students renting accommodation in an owner-occupied home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47212/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Will the Minister provide for regulations to protect the rights of students renting accommodation in owner-occupied homes or so-called digs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: The statistics for quarters 1 and 2 for local authority house building in 2018 have been published. The total number of new local authority builds completed by the end of June was 350. The figure for Cork city was zero. The figure for County Cork was one. Twelve of the 31 local authorities had completed zero new local authority builds by the end of June, yet we are in the middle of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Sure. I will finish on this point. It seems possible that something that is on the market for €350,000 could be offered for less than €200,000 instead. Will the delegates who are supporters of providing public housing on public land comment on whether these are realistic figures?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the spending of local authority Traveller accommodation budgets for 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47162/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the Land Development Agency and the use of public land for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47160/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the recategorisation of persons on the PASS system and the statistics on homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47159/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Repossessions Rate (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he maintains statistics on the number of repossessions; and the services available to those that become homeless following repossession. [47161/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of regulation on short-term letting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47158/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Recently, Fr. Peter McVerry stated that he estimates that there are now 500,000 persons living in the State who experience distress on a daily basis on foot of their housing situations. We are in the middle of the greatest housing crisis this State has known. Whenever Brexit is discussed we hear much about its impact on jobs, wages and economic growth. It is not a criticism of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Dr. Healy said a figure of 20,000 job losses in the event of a hard or chaotic Brexit was perhaps an underestimate and that it could be significantly higher. When he says "significantly higher", what is he talking about?

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: No they are not. We checked it at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government last week. Women living in domestic violence shelters, 5,000 people living in direct provision, people living in emergency shelters that are not funded by local authorities, and couch surfers are not counted in the official statistics. If these groups were counted what would be the...

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I would like to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I want to read into the record of the House new information that comes from the Rebuilding Ireland social housing construction projects status reports for the first and second quarters of the year. They contain new information on the number of new local authority homes that were built in the first six months of this year. The total for the 31 local authorities throughout the State was 350....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: My question is for Mr David Kelly. From where did the idea to recategorise come? Did the Department pitch it to the Minister or vice versa?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Therefore the person who got the ball rolling was the Minister.