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Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Say that to the families in emergency accommodation.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister want to talk to the families who are in emergency accommodation on his watch?

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The highest levels of homelessness in modern history.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does not suit the children who are in emergency accommodation on his watch.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Highest levels in modern history.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Because they push up house prices.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a pity the Minister is not spending it.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: People cannot live in planning permissions.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We need 50,000. It is too little.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just give us the figures for this year. What has the Government done this year?

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What has the Government delivered this year?

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: How many have been delivered so far this year? It is a simple question.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister today launched a report on quarter 2 and he could not answer the question.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: No answer to the question. Remarkable.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: His press office did provide his statement in advance and he was complaining that I was repeating myself. I will continue to repeat myself, as will my colleagues, with the right policies until the Minister listens. What are we proposing today? It is what we have proposed before, which is an emergency three-year ban on rent increases for all existing renters, new tenancies and new...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Fine Gael have now been in Government for 12 years, propped up by Fianna Fáil for the past seven years, and Darragh O'Brien TD has been the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for three years; and — during this time the housing crisis has deepened, and is the biggest threat to Ireland's economic and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree but two of these sets of regulations are significant so we also need to give them adequate scrutiny. With regard to the first of the regulations, does the Minister of State know how many buildings have availed to date of the two existing sets of exemptions for people with temporary protection orders and in the international protection system? How many buildings are currently in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I can get them from the Department myself but does the Minister of State know of the buildings that have availed of the exemption to date and how many of them are subject to enforcement proceedings by local authorities? There is a reason I am asking this question I am and I am not trying to trap or trick the Minister the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: This one I have the answer to. It is three. South Dublin County Council forced the evacuation of Dolcain House, which housed about 189 individuals in non-fire safety compliant conditions. Fingal County Council recently initiated enforcement action in similar circumstances and Kildare has had to do the same, not on fire safety grounds but for breach of protections in the original...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that. That is not my point. It is a problem that, in bringing forward a significant change to the two sets of regulations, which we willingly supported previously, no assessment has been done by the Minister of State or his officials of the operation of the previous two. It is not the fault of the Minister of State's Department’s or his officials that the Department of...