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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: In terms of the expertise needed, it is very much on the environmental side?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are just not enough people with the skills available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. McLoughlin. I address the same question to Fingal County Council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Can Ms Farrelly expand on the higher densities and making them viable? It seems to be an issue across the country that some of the higher density planning permissions are not getting built out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The pipeline of land was very much highlighted as an issue in the comments here today and in the Dublin task force delivery report. Can the witness tell us a bit about increasing the land bank? How is it funded? Is it primarily focused on land that is zoned for residential development or is it focused on land that is not currently zoned for residential?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay, so there has not been a funding stream for that forward funding to date to ensure there is a sufficient pipeline so that land can be purchased at good value as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is fair to say that forward funding for land assembly and land pipeline is very important for the medium and long term.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the criteria local authorities use when buying homes for social housing under the Social Housing Investment Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52509/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for a school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52512/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the funding for buildings at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52510/22]

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank my colleague Deputy Cairns for tabling this motion. I will take up the point that Deputy Whitmore made. It is profoundly worrying and disturbing that the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Minister do not seem to understand the importance of the early stages of childhood development up to five or six months. One would have thought that, of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the number of acquisitions that have been made by local authorities of homes with tenants in situ and at risk of homelessness, broken down by local authority, the amount paid and type of unit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51437/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the Government’s intended response to TRIS notification numbers 2022/376/IRL and 2022/184/IRL with respect to the Electoral Reform Act 2022; the expected timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51438/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay. Many of these are SHDs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank representatives from both councils for the information they have given. I have a question for Cork City Council first, following what was said about the 8,000 planning permissions that have not been activated in Cork city. How does this compare with a few years ago? Is there a growing number of unactivated planning permissions? Could the witnesses give us a sense of those figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: A few owners hold the bulk of these 8,000 unactivated planning applications.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: If we could get some of these sites activated, that could lead to 220 or 230 cost rental homes a year being delivered. What measures would help to activate them? What measures at local or national level could be taken to help local authorities activate some of these unused planning permissions? This is a key issue across the country, with approximately 80,000 unactivated planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Should penalties or disincentives be considered for people who have planning permissions but are not activating them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: If there are no apartments being built by private developers who have all these planning applications, we cannot get less than zero if penalties are put in place to encourage people to stop sitting on planning permissions or to release the land to people who can make it viable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses from Cork City Council for their replies. As regards Galway city, lower delivery is anticipated this year in terms of the build of social houses. It will be coming in at about 154 or 158 homes. The reasons cited by the witnesses are the number of delays on a local authority site, a turnkey site and an AHB site. Is there anything that could be done to reduce or...