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Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. Some 19 years on from the publication of Rachel Carson's book, Christopher Fettes formed the Green Party in Ireland. That was 40 years ago. His vision was international, as a global movement began in earnest to protect the path to which Rachel Carson referred. For 40 years, the Green Party has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: The Green Party will not support this amendment. The Land Development Agency, LDA, will be implementing or master-planning this process. Its remit is to assist local authorities and the affordable housing bodies, AHBs, in delivering affordable housing. Therefore, in that tendering process, they will tender out projects and the contractors who take on that work will get their profit within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...15%. I go back to the Government agency that will deliver these, namely, the LDA. It is a Government agency; it is not interested in profit. It is interested in delivering public housing on public land. I do not think it will be looking for that. There will be a tendering process within which one invites contractors to tender to the agency to deliver the housing. It will work with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...and I am encouraged that the intent of the agency appears to be moving away from private housing towards public housing. I hope that in the future we might reach 100% public housing on public land. However, we are where we are. As I believe should be the case, the primary remit of the LDA is to utilise State land for public housing. This is in the context of a severe housing crisis....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...up to 6,000 units per year, as what we really needed. Have the witnesses engaged with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on multiannual funding and access to local authority land, given that AHBs will have to deliver cost rental units on such a scale? Second, we often cite the success of the Vienna model, which has exemplified the housing model centred on...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...negative outcomes for society. However, I also welcome its potential to assist in the mitigation of our housing crisis. The two points on which I wish to speak are public housing and public land, and the removal of councillors' voting rights. I must begin by stating that we are in a housing crisis. Therefore, it is without doubt that the primary remit of the LDA should be to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (17 Feb 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing tenure mix for a Land Development Agency development (details supplied); the breakdown of private and affordable purchase, affordable, cost rental and social homes; the model of the agency for contracts with tenants; the way these tenancies are allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8051/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (17 Feb 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land the Land Development Agency is expected to purchase from local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8052/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...concerning cost rental, stock and permanent affordability. As I have often mentioned in the Dáil and in this committee, increasing our cost rental stock by developing new units on public land will eventually drive down rent prices going forward. Based on the witnesses' research and expertise, what annual target should the State work towards to deliver enough cost rental units to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (9 Feb 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...to the rental price? How will that money then be used? Can the witnesses provide any examples of the new shared equity scheme? How do they think it will work on private and local authority lands, respectively? In what way will it improve housing supply? Has the Department worked out models of how this will play out? Will the cost rental equity loans and other supports for cost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...capping the rental market and how we fix that problem. I know and Senator Fitzpatrick mentioned that there are provisions in the programme for Government to look to build affordable models through the Land Development Agency. If housing does come, do the witnesses have faith in the ability of the programme for Government to deliver? Regarding the figure of 15,000 more HAP tenancies...

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...that are sustainable, equitable for society and built with future generations in mind. The cost-rental model is a practice used internationally where the State provides public housing on public land and in doing so deflates rental costs. The Vienna model exemplifies this. I welcome the budget which has mandated approved housing bodies, AHBs, to provide such units next year, albeit a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Francis Noel Duffy: While we might get the Land Development Agency to talk to us and the Minister, I believe the Department should talk to us also. It is its baby and it will have a different perspective of what it actually is, so the Department representatives should also come in, although they have briefed me.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (23 Jul 2020)

Francis Noel Duffy: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will provide full details on the draft land development agency Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17506/20]

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...to extending such freezes for longer than three months. Similarly, according to the Free Legal Advice Centres, FLAC, several protections have been put in place to assist borrowers, such as the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Act 2019, but there have been delays in the implementation of the legislation and its benefit has yet to be felt by the public. There is much...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...the world per capita. I truly hope those people are in the Minister's sights in the Covid-19 recovery and that the State ceases to be party to the provision of private developer-led housing on public land, at least until we have secured housing for those who are homeless, those living with their parents, those locked out of the market and others living in cars. We truly have an...