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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: When do we hope to have that database?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Senator Seery Kearney raised a very important question. There is nothing simplistic about it at all. I would be less generous. The use of the derelict sites register is appalling. The record of almost every local authority when it comes to putting sites on the register is very poor. I know local authorities will argue that it might be an ineffective mechanism, is resource-intensive,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: So she expects we will get about 4,000 this year from the seven or eight schemes that are actually about bringing vacant and derelict units back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Ms Timmons run through those figures again? It was 4,000 activation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about on the refurbishment grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do we have a target for how many we expect to be delivered this year across the various schemes? Again, it goes back to the conversation around whether or not there is progress. The only way we can measure progress over a period of time is the actual number of units through each scheme that are brought back into use each year. One of the very frustrating things for many of us is the fact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Here is the frustrating thing. I am not complaining that a new scheme is not performing overnight. Some of these schemes are six or seven years old while others are only a few months old. Under the last and the current housing plan with social housing, we have had annual targets broken down by local authority and by delivery mechanism and it was very easy to track. That is also very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, that is not what I am saying. When the voids programme was initiated, it was a specific intervention to address long-term vacancy in local authority stock and it did a very good job. I have to say that it was a good programme. What has happened over a number of years as local authorities have cleared out their long-term vacancy stock, is that funding from the voids programme has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do the witnesses think four is an appropriate target?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I question even 150. It is an activation programme that will run over a number of years. They will not be delivered this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To initiate, but not to bring into use.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have just had a look at the report but, unfortunately, it only gives percentages rather than numbers. Does Ms Timmons know what the GeoDirectory vacancy and dereliction rate is in Dublin city?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is very important. That is for Dublin county, and it has a whole set of newer suburbs with low vacancy rates, and then a historic city which has very high vacancy rates. Using the percentage for the county, as opposed to the number within the local authority area, would not be my initial point. The second point is that Dublin city does not have pockets. We only have to walk through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be allocated a placement in a special school setting; and the efforts that are being made by her Department and the NCSE to ensure an appropriate placement is available to the person at the earliest opportunity. [28998/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (14 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he was consulted regarding the announced increase in toll charges from 1 July 2023; if he intends to intervene in relation to the charges given the financial pressures experienced by households at the current time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28815/23]

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: When I read the Minister's amendment to the motion I thought he was simply not going to make things better. Little did I know that when he read the text of his speech he would make things immeasurably worse. The mood with which the retained firefighters present in the Gallery walked out just as the Minister was finishing his remarks speaks volumes. There is a fundamental flaw at the...

Retained Fire Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: expresses its admiration and appreciation to the Retained Firefighters who keep our communities safe across the country at huge personal sacrifice to themselves; recognises: — that Retained Firefighters are restricted from travelling outside a radius of as low as 2.5 kilometres of their station without first obtaining permission, which has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everyone for the presentations. The opening statements deal with a wider range of issues than was the intention of the committee. They are all important issues but I want to focus specifically on the interaction between the utilities and developers in new residential construction, both in terms of the demand-led approach that Mr. O'Connell spoke about and then also the future...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a round robin. It is really to invite people to contribute and we might have a second round for those who we miss.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To go back to why we take witnesses from their day jobs and bring them in here to answer our questions, we are keen to try to explore ways to improve things. I acknowledge there is a lot of very positive information in what today's witnesses have shared with us, as well as some of the challenges, but this committee is useful only if we take these opportunities to inform ourselves. We try to...