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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I imagine they are because I do not believe anybody else other than the board can issue a fine. That was the legal advice we got back on this new level of administrative sanctions. From having read some of the files, my understanding is that the board does that. Regarding the capital advance leasing facility, CALF and affordability, we determined in our conversations ahead of the budget...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes, but the Deputy asked if we can use CALF as a way of getting affordable homes and not use it for only social housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand the point the Deputy is making. No, we are going to do that with the serviced sites fund instead. That is a decision we have taken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes, the decision is to use the EIB funding with the serviced sites fund for both affordable purchase and cost rental. That is subject to the application to the EIB being successful but we know from communications we have had to date that it is supportive of what we are trying to do. It is familiar with the models we are trying to use because it is has helped us to design them. Regarding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand the point the Deputy is making. On Senator Boyhan's questions, I am hoping to have the criteria for the serviced sites fund new week but there are a number of issues I need to get through by the end of the year, for example, the commitments I made in regard to the land development agency, its board, the mica issue, etc. The point I was making in my opening comments was that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is the end of November for the current assessment. If a Dublin local authority is telling the Senator-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: We made this call out to the Dublin local authorities during the summer. Of the 11 local authorities to which we made this call, which included the four Dublin local authorities, nine have returned their assessments and we now have first sites for approval. It is not the case that a local authority is sitting on its hands and not carrying out the assessment. It is an affordability issue....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not have that table to hand. I am told three have returned them and one has not. On the circulars, we have agreed the circulars with the committee, as clarified earlier by the Acting Chairman. On the vacancy, that has been achieved in terms of putting the teams in place as per that item. The quarter 3 report on the vacancy work was published so the committee should have that report...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy also mentioned a review of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan. Consistency is key. Among the recommendations made to me one constantly repeated was the need for consistency in application in each local authority. At the beginning of next year we will be able to implement those recommendations, which I have separated into two tiers. The first tier, which is the easy stuff that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The ceiling is currently €2 million and consideration is being given to raising it to €6 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: As long as it is in compliance with the public spending code set out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Subject to the public spending code. Local authorities are telling members that there is a four stage approval process and it is taking them too long to process applications when they could have taken those projects through the one stage approval process but did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Everything is conditional on the public spending code. We are all tied by the public spending code, including Fianna Fáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: There is already an existing stick. Approximately 200 schemes could have gone through the one stage process but instead went through the four stage process. Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: This issues was raised in an engagement I had with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform about four weeks ago. There is ongoing engagement between myself, the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach. At one of those meetings this issue was raised and an agreement was given at that time by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We are almost there and hope to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: If it came to that I would seek to have the public spending code amended. I would not want to inadvertently cause a general election across the committee floor. It is such a sensitive time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy O'Brien should not believe all he reads in the newspapers. I will be facing him across the floor of this committee for some time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy's predecessor said the same and he is gone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On credit union funding, we have changed the law. The Central Bank has changed the conditions around credit union funding. We have provided funding to allow the credit unions to explore how they put together a special purpose vehicle, SPV. We cannot force a housing body and a credit union to come together in an SPV. We also cannot set up the SPV.