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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: I will allow a few more minutes because it is an important question. There is no need to rush. We will jump back to Mr. O'Connor as Mr. Dunne gave us the number of houses, the number under construction and those heading to construction. Does Mr. O'Connor have a similar figure for what is under construction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: Mr. Dunne referred to a figure of 1,456 which are awaiting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: These are considerably large numbers of houses we are talking about. The figures Mr. Dunne gave were 6,036, 1,410 and 1,456.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: This is important information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: Can I clarify that? Clúid has 1,300 in the pipeline and 3,400 with developers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: That is a separate category. What is the delivery window for the 1,300 and the 3,400?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: The Senator has saved me the bother of adding up what they put in their opening statements. That was an important line of questioning there. We have had the Land Development Agency in several times. They provide us with quarterly updates of progress on sites. These updates include houses that have gone to design, houses that have gone to tender and shovels in the ground. Would a basic...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: I want to clarify the point Mr. Hannigan made. Those figures we have just relate to these four approved housing bodies, and there are many more of them. I call Deputy O'Callaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: We can try to engage and seek clarity from the Department on the CALF review.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: I would be really interested to explore Mr. O'Connor's point on ethical investment and to see what more we could do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: I will take the next slot. In Mr. Hannigan's opening statement, he spoke about community spaces and I recently had a discussion with somebody on this issue. Could he expand on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: At present, does it include places for local family resource centres to meet or to offer younger people's services? Not a permanent place but a meeting place they can go, and shared community spaces like that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: If Mr. Hannigan wanted to include that in a development of 60, 70 or 100 units he is not allowed to do that under the current-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: Would that have to be absorbed into the cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: I am finding this to be a difficulty in a number of areas I work in as well, the lack of these particular places. Did Mr. Dunne want to come in on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: I was in a local authority-built development in Wicklow, which was brand-newly opened and it was of a high standard with heat pumps and the high insulation value. That is an affordability issue as well, if you are spending your money trying to impossibly heat an uninsulated house. If you go to the stock of housing built in the 1980s or even in the 1990s or 2000s, the challenge can be seen....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Dunne and appreciate that. I wanted to ask a further question on that. There was a reference to planning being a barrier, I do not know whose presentation that was in. Mr. Hannigan put his hand up for that one and we will come back to it in a further round because he knows there was an amendment being introduced into the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: Is the question on development contributions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)
Steven Matthews: Do Mr. Hannigan and Mr. Dunne wish to come back on that?