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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: On Deputy Daly's point about the age profile and so forth, we had the Minister, Deputy Kelly, in this morning and he referred to housing construction as a pipeline that was being ramped up over a number of years. I want to park the question of whether one agrees with the programme; it is to grow. In terms of the mix of housing, has the Housing Agency fed into that? In other words, are the...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Is that feeding specifically into the Department and the Minister's housing construction programme?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Deputy Durkan.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: The purpose of having the witnesses here is not to make statements. We will have our own debate afterwards on the evidence that has been produced. We have witnesses here and the purpose of the session is to question them, interrogate them and extract the information we want. At subsequent meetings we will try to decide on policy responses, recommendations and so forth, but the purpose of...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Could it be built into what we call strategic development zones? Is that an ideal opportunity for it?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Those are two specifics: vacancies and the mortgage-to-rent scheme.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Please.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: When will the current census feed into this?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Before I conclude, I want to be specific with the witnesses because they have engaged with us in that they will forward us information on the breakdown of those 200,000 houses that have been vacant. The committee would also be interested to hear about what they have found to be the best practice internationally, how the UK has managed to have only 200,000 houses vacant for more than six...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I thank Mr. Silke, Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Skehan for their attendance. Their direct and frank answers and the supporting documentation and statistics they provided are very useful.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I am pleased to welcome a delegation from the Irish Council for Social Housing comprising: Dr. Donal McManus, CEO; Mr. Justin O'Brien, president; and Ms Caren Gallagher, joint project director of policy. The council has made a submission, which I presume most members have read. I invite Mr. O'Brien to make an opening statement relating to the submission.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: The full report will go on the website after the meeting, and I acknowledge the recommendations and so forth that were made in it. A number of Deputies have questions and comments.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: We will afford Dr. McManus the opportunity to explain the specific role of the housing associations and to outline what they do that is different to what is done by local authorities, where they fit-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: On that point, in his opening statement, Mr. O'Brien referred specifically to the agency having design and build capacity, and he clearly identified land availability as an issue.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: There are land banks available across the local authorities in Dublin. What is the interaction with the local authorities to access those lands? The agency has clearly identified the availability of land as an obstacle in delivery of housing. Yet local authorities have land, some of which they own and some they do not. Perhaps Mr. O'Brien could clarify the agency's engagement with local...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I will stop Dr. McManus there. The council is trying to get something like that activated. Where is it in the process at present?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: You have asked the question. We will give the representatives of the council an opportunity to respond.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: We will follow up on some points in Deputy Coppinger’s questions when we deal with the finance section.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I am sorry for interrupting the Deputy. There were two elements there. The Deputy mentioned financing a number of times. They are questions we will follow up with the other Departments. The other comments Deputy Durkan made about whether the housing bodies are the appropriate vehicle are part of the deliberations we will make as a committee. What I was trying to get at specifically was...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Thank you.