Results 3,781-3,800 of 26,565 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not being allowed to answer, so I cannot answer the questions. If the Deputy keeps interrupting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy can come back in after. I ask for a little courtesy please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We were delivering no affordable homes before this Government came in. In the first year, 1,757 were delivered. In the second year, more than 4,000 - I think 4,017 - were delivered. This year, more than 6,000 will be delivered. Delivering homes through local authorities for-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is not showing any respect because he is not letting me answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will not be badgered. If I am asked a question, I am allowed to answer it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: If the Deputy keeps coming back and forth on this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----we could be here all day. The difference in our approach is we have published a plan that is funded, that shows the delivery and publishes, on a quarterly basis, what we deliver on social and affordable housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will say no more, Chair. I am not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----getting into this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I have not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I think-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will behave myself, even if the Deputy has not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I was very clear when we brought it in, with the approval of all three Government parties and the support of Cabinet, that this would be a time-bound measure and that it would not continue for ever. The scaling down of the waiver is basically to send a very clear signal that at the end of this year, the development levy waiver ends completely and to show that the phasing of that is ending...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, it is very clear. That has been understood by them as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I completely agree. It shows the flexibility that I referred to. We need to have that approach, particularly when we are seeing increasing costs and recognising the need to reduce them. We worked very well with the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe and the Minster for Finance, Deputy McGrath to get an agreement on that. It has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Not yet. I can give overall vacancy. I want to say that the Senator played a key role in that. I remember visiting Waterford with the Senator. We looked at a lot of vacant public houses, many of them very substantial buildings. For some reason, they were not included in the original commercial to residential planning exemptions. It has been done really successfully and Waterford led the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We do not have figures for 2023?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: There has been a greater uptake as well. It can be seen in the quarterly reports that we are now including the vacant homes that are coming back in. I want to emphasise that the voids are not part of this. I always resisted that. The voids are separate. They are important under social housing. Actual housing stock that is coming back into use is being reported on a quarterly basis. We...