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- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Members should show respect for other colleagues in this Chamber.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: We made our contributions.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: It is the councillors' decision and they are holding up the development, and the Deputy knows that. That is disingenuous. He knows-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: The development will be put back by 18 months.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Martin Heydon.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: We face a serious crisis and are putting in place emergency responses, some of which were outlined by the Taoiseach earlier today in the Dáil. We need to do more and to do better. I know that the crisis is hurting people today and that tonight children will sleep in hotels and emergency accommodation, which is unacceptable. Of course, I support people's right to protest legally,...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: If we all believe, as I do, that we are in a crisis and that we need emergency responses, none of us should leave today and oppose the development of housing in our constituencies. More than that, we should work with councillors in our own parties, or councillors over whom we have influence, to make sure they are not opposing the building of houses. Let the planners do their work,...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: As we catch up in building more homes - we are doing so - we have to protect people who may not have a home or who are at risk of losing it because they cannot afford the rent. However, freezing rent increases will not help to build new apartments and we need thousands of new apartments. Linking rent increases with inflation is fine when it is low, but what happens if inflation goes up...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: -----but they need to be strengthened. We also need proper enforcement. These changes are coming in the legislation will be brought before before the Dáil in the next couple of weeks. If we work together, we will have that legislation passed very quickly and it will make a real difference for tens of thousands of people throughout the country. It is not right when a young couple...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: We will always support people's right to protest. We will always support good ideas in this House that will make a real difference for people .
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. In the past two years since Rebuilding Ireland began, the number of people on the housing list has fallen by about 20,000. That is because local authorities throughout the country are implementing solutions to get people into social homes. As the Taoiseach mentioned earlier, we do not have an ideological objection over how they do that; we want it to...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: That is why I have been working with the local authorities' chief executives to get them to build thousands of homes.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I could answer it now.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I did not respond to the Deputy because his question was linked with another Deputy's question. The Housing Agency has a role and a fund to engage with institutional lenders and those who have homes on their books to acquire them for social housing. That is happening currently. There are almost 1,000 homes currently as part of the mandate to get 1,600 homes into the stock of social...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The first thing to acknowledge is that when we are talking about building homes that will stand for 60 or 70 years to house many generations of families, we have to get it right. In the past, certain planning schemes did not get it right. What we did in the Department was work with the chief executives of the local authorities to streamline what was an...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: That is why-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: -----I have been bringing the chief executives of local authorities-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: -----into housing summits to talk through the problems we have and to make sure they try to bring about housing provision in the fastest way possible. It is also the reason I am in discussions with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to see what we can do about public spending controls to make the one-stage process work better for those local authorities that would use it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Currently, there are more than 100 projects that should have gone through the one-stage process that did not, and the city managers did not put them through.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: The local authorities provide local authority housing.