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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the clarification with respect to duplexes. There are schemes, such as Millford Manor in Kildare, where the houses had the same defects as the apartments and there was a very serious fire. I ask the Minister to look at that in the context of the legislation. Has the Minister made up his mind yet on whether this will be an end-to-end scheme similar to the pyrite...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on both the provision of emergency funding for multi-unit developments with building defects and the legislation to underpin the full defective buildings redress scheme. [6825/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that 79 applications have been received by the Department for the interim remediation scheme for apartment and duplex owners with Celtic tiger-era defects across 22 counties, representing almost 7,500 residential units. Will the Minister provide an update on where those application are at and when he expects owner management companies, OMCs, to be able to draw down the funding?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. With respect to fire safety, I would be interested to know if, even at this stage, he has an indication of how much expenditure is likely to be required for the applications and specifically when people will be able to draw down the money. I welcome the fact that decisions will be made soon. Regarding the legislation, does the Minister envisage an end-to-end scheme...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House and he will have to correct the record.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: You should not be allowed mislead the House, Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Stick to the question. What is the Minister going to do about record homelessness?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What are you going to do about record homelessness? This is not a laughing matter, Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Smirking at such an important issue.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, Chair.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes delivered in 2023 via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan and the Land Development Agency's Project Tosaigh; and his views on the rising rents and house prices under these schemes. [7244/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister in a position yet to tell us about the final delivery of social new build and affordable housing under the three affordable housing schemes were for last year? If not, can he indicate if he believes the targets set out in his housing plan will be met on those four crucial schemes?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In fact the figures for delivery under the genuine affordable housing schemes are much worse than the number the Minister quoted here. In his first year as Minister, no affordable purchase homes were delivered and only 65 cost-rental homes. In 2022, there were only 323 genuinely affordable homes to purchase delivered and just under 700 cost-rental homes. The Minister is right that we do...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is that the Minister keeps missing his target. For example, he did not meet his affordable purchase or cost-rental targets last year. He will not meet them this year. On the first homes scheme, which the Minister is correct that I oppose, the Minister missed his targets by 50% last year and by even more the year before. But also, increasingly the homes he is talking about are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is paid back in the end.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Either by their children, as a penalty, or when they sell. They pay the full price.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: And very unaffordable.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional measures he plans to introduce in 2024 to address the deepening homelessness crisis. [7243/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will be aware, the December homeless figures showed a record 13,318 people, including 3,962 children, in emergency accommodation funded by his Department. That is a 20% increase in family homelessness on the previous year but there was a month-on-month increase in single-person homelessness and pensioner homelessness. While I welcome the fact there was a slight decrease in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the December figures were published, Simon Communities stated that homelessness is poised to increase in the coming months. They would know because they are on the front line. The problem is there is a growing gap between the answers that the Minister gives to these questions on the floor of the Dáil and the reality for many thousands of adults and children who are experiencing...