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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That flows as well, because I wrote to Deputy Ó Broin recently asking him to publish his analysis of the impact of the abolition of the help-to-buy grant and first home scheme on house building and new housing supply.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Mazars has published it. The Department of Finance commissioned a report. I will send it to you.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Strangely, Deputies Ó Broin and Doherty decided not to respond in any way to those letters. That is the contrast between what we do and what others say they will do. In the background, other party colleagues-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Read the Mazars report from the Department of Finance. Read your own Government's report.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Sorry Eoin, I am not talking to you.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am just trying to be helpful-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That would be a first.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----because the Minister seems not to know his own Government's analysis.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Deputy will have an opportunity in a minute.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The uplift in commencement activity is being mirrored at local level across the country. For example, there were 1,019 new homes commenced in Cork county in quarter 1 2024, the highest for this period since records began more than a decade ago. The national surge in April was also seen in Cork county, with a record figure of 806 commencements in April. While it will take time to see recent...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for his response. Before coming in, I looked at a few newspaper articles going back to 2023. The hard, raw statistics the Minister quotes are impressive. It is good to see the journey we have gone on. The trend is more impressive. The figure from 2023 is 2,232 homes in Cork, a 16.6% increase on 2022's 1,913 units. In the city in the first 11 months of 2023, there...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We know there is a lot more to do. There are people who want to buy their own home and are being helped by the Government schemes but we need to further ramp up supply. I thank Deputies O'Sullivan and O'Connor and other Government colleagues for their support for the delivery of housing. That is in stark contrast to the main Opposition party, whose members are serial objectors to new...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking the Minister of State about early stage finance to get the affordable purchase homes we need. He is not answering. He clearly cannot answer and the Minister who can answer is sitting beside him and will not answer the question, which is completely unacceptable. I will read from correspondence sent to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, recently by the Ó Cualann Cohousing...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will not get into a response on specific projects. The local authorities are delivering affordable homes with funding approval in place to assist with the delivery of more than 4,135 purchase and cost-rental homes across 21 local authorities with support of more than €335 million from the affordable housing fund. Again, I will not get into specifics about-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Is the Minister of State going to say anything about early stage finance? That is what my question is about. Does he have anything to say about it?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: That is what the AHF is for.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: It is for providing early stage finance for affordable purchase homes.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Then why are these not getting off the ground?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not getting into specific issues relating to that particular-----