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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government is in its third year and during all of that time house prices, rents and homelessness have increased. As the Government announced yesterday, it has missed its social and affordable housing targets for three years in a row. To come here and say that is evidence that the housing plan is working takes a brass neck beyond belief. Let us remind ourselves of the figures from...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage had a capital budget underspend of €1 billion between 2020 and 2022; — the primary cause of this underspend is the excessive bureaucracy and red tape imposed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on local authorities and Approved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I also want to acknowledge the significant amount of work done by them and their team. We are conscious of that. For the benefit of the committee, will Mr. Ó Coigligh or Ms Timmons remind us of last year's global target for affordable housing delivery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What was the delivery reported yesterday?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. I will go through a few questions. Within that there is a target of 500 affordable purchase homes. The number delivered was 323. That is not a new scheme. That scheme, under the name of the serviced sites fund, was introduced in 2019. How has it taken such a long time to get such a small number of affordable purchase homes? I accept that it takes 12 months to build these, and 12...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Ms Timmons know how many units are currently in the pipeline for the affordable housing fund, at various stages in the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are just 1,000 units on the cost rental. Is that through CREL?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: And the cost rental equity loan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear, there are 2,400 in the pipeline for affordable purchase. Using that fund there is also another 1,000 in the pipeline for cost rental.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is 9,000 including all of the figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the expectation for delivery of units this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate the LDA is one step removed, so it is hard to have annualised targets for them. Is it the hope, as it has been since the start of Rebuilding Ireland, to have annualised targets for social housing broken down by local authority? Will we also have the same for affordable purchase and cost rental through the AHBs and CREL? Is there any reason why that could not be done in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. I have two separate questions in the two minutes remaining. Last year, as with the two years before, there was a shortfall in new builds on the social housing side. The total shortfall for the three years was 8,537 units. This is a conversation we have had before. Will those units be added to the targets as set out in the housing plan over the coming years, or will the targets set...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there any intention to attempt to make up the shortfall of 8,500 units over the past three years? That is a significant number of units lost for various reasons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there an answer on the Croí Cónaithe towns?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It took about nine or ten months to fix it for the affordable housing fund, because we had significant delays in those purchases. I know that is now resolved. Will it take as long to fix this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the information of the Chair, local authority home loans are currently not allowing drawdown of mortgages. There is an odd situation where somebody is applying to a local authority for a home loan . The Croí Cónaithe towns refurbishment grant gets approved for both but cannot proceed, because the home loan lender is not willing to allow the drawdown of the mortgage until that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are also problems with EBS, AIB and Bank of Ireland. I will forward that directly to Ms Timmons.