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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: A lot of that would be inflation, which is fair enough, but the big-ticket item from last year's expenditure is that there is under-expenditure right across the programmes. Owing to that, there is an overspend in housing. The outturn turned out to be €50 million more than anticipated. What was budgeted for was €50 million more. There was €193 million allocated and the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: Some of them involve leasing. A lot of them are welcome, which I accept, but the big fall-down concerns the provision of local authority housing. I am easy about how it is provided, whether it is by AHBs, turnkey arrangements or otherwise, but the big failure is in addressing the capacity of the 31 local authorities. The Department has a substantial staff and a big budget but is not...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: Will Mr. Doyle include an up-to-date report on what is happening with The Limekiln in Clogh, County Laois? Related to the point Deputy Burke made, this is a fairly significant problem. It is a small estate. A reed bed system was put in. It was totally sustainable. It is working and there have been no problems. It is heading towards the end of its second decade in operation but for some...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: I raised it but I want an up-to-date report. Somebody at Mr. Doyle’s level needs to make a call on Irish Water. The Department has the two arms of the State involved, namely, Irish Water and the housing programme, and Mr. Doyle can make a call on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: I do not want you to answer now because it would be unfair for me to expect that.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: Can we go back to that issue of speeding up supply for a moment? Based on what we have seen for the first two quarters of the year, the Department has struggled to hit 1,666 builds by the local authority. One of the things that strikes me with the multitude of schemes, and I am sure it is the same with the Department, is that locally, they increase that in the local authorities, which we can...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: That is the other reason for trying to increase what the local authorities are doing directly. That might be one are the Department might want to look at. Another area, and Mr. Doyle and I have had a few conversations about this, is the design. Mr. Doyle did give a response with regard to standardised design in the correspondence we got back from the Department recently. In that, Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: -----supply and reducing costs. From the committee's point of view, I have to raise this with officials.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is important. I agree.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: Ask the people who make any product on the planet. You mass produce when you want to speed up delivery and reduce costs. I am not advocating reduced standards. The officials know that. I want delivery of the highest A-rated homes and the provision of good homes to continue. I am saying we have to mass produce.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is going half way.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: You are going halfway. I am asking the Department to go the whole way. We have a housing crisis. My previous contribution was on the underspend. The only area where there is an overspend is in providing homeless accommodation. Why? We have underperformance right across the board. We are at the end of the year. I am sure we are all interested and want to provide more good-quality...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: We could put 20 houses in Rathdowney, however, that look the same as 40 houses in Mountmellick, which is a bigger town, that are the same as 60 houses in Portlaoise, which is a bigger town again, and nobody would object to that. The texture could be changed slightly, the cost and the architectural fees could be reduced, a lot of the nonsense, bureaucracy and back and forth could be cut out,...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: I appreciate that. Before we finish, I acknowledge the progress with the land aggregation scheme, LAGS, sites in Laois. They are nearly all either active or a plan is in place for them, including the ones in Portlaoise and Rathdowney. I will ask about the one in Mountrath. The HSE may want a site on that. The officials might be able to tell me whether there has been agreement on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is on its way. Okay. There is no resistance from the Housing Agency to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is a need for housing at the Mountrath site as well because it is in a population centre. The Housing Agency might look at that. The site on the Portlaoise Road at Mountrath is fairly big. The question is about the 90-day limit relating to Ukrainian refugees. We have done well in the context of helping people fleeing the war in Ukraine. What effect will the 90-day limit have on...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: Would it not be the case that people in the temporary international protection system will be going into the mainstream housing system and the housing pool in the private rented sector and will be receiving the housing assistance payment?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: That comes under the Department of Social Protection.