Results 3,881-3,900 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: The Deputy and I can go back and forth as often as he wants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Will the Deputy repeat that? I missed it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will deal with the homeless question and the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, will deal with the board, to which I made reference earlier. I mentioned homelessness in my opening statement and the Deputy asked about exits from homelessness. The exits we track are into tenancies. I want to be clear on that point. The exit may be to a housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancy, an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am saying that the exits we track and that I publish are exits into tenancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The quarterly reports that are published show exits into tenancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is absolutely the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Does the Deputy look at the quarterly reports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The exits that we track and publish are exits into tenancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I have said it and have been clear. The Deputy was disputing the point earlier and I have clarified the situation. Does Deputy Ó Broin find homelessness funny?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We engage with stakeholders all the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: There is no issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not going to go into the politics of this. Thankfully, we are seeing just short of 600 first-time buyers buying homes every week, so I will leave that where it is. The Deputy made the point, though, with regard to apartment development and the channelling of investment where we need it. We need investment to back the building and funding of housing estates and multi-unit developments....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, apartments are tricky. Now, the Croí Cónaithe city scheme is there. I answered that earlier. I do want apartments for purchase to be available. We have seen some in my constituency recently as well. We have apartment developments in Swords and Malahide that are for purchase. It is not, therefore, correct to say that every apartment development that is out there is for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank Deputy Ó Broin. In that intervening period, we did give it additional funding. I discussed this at the NHAC and I was the one who approved that we would go ahead and do the review because I wanted it done with regard to the section 10 funding. They wrote to me and we discussed it on the margins of meetings. The CCMA review of section 10 funding is ongoing and we are awaiting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Terms of reference were agreed in 2022. I will get Deputy Ó Broin the exact dates, but I believe the review was in 2023. It was before the revelations to which Deputy Ó Broin has referred. It was not in reaction to that at all. Some of the organisations Deputy Ó Broin has referenced will tell you that I discussed it directly with them on the margins of meetings and gave a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will deal with the Peter McVerry Trust issue in a moment. I do not think there is any difficulty in providing the committee with a timeframe. The terms of reference were agreed between the Department and those groups and we will just need to check with those groups whether it is okay with them to share the terms of reference. I am not sure until we talk to them but I do not expect there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: But I understand. Many people have not sold apartments individually in a long time.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (13 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Under Section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he/she is responsible. My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of local government sector employment levels. To this end,...