Results 6,401-6,420 of 25,732 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I can give those figures now.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: The number of commencement notices for October was 2,624. That was an increase of 42.5% on the number of new homes commenced in the same month last year. That brings us to a rolling total of 26,547 commencements in the first ten months of this year. That is an increase of 16.6% on the same period last year. Effectively it is 4,000 more homes that we have been able to commence. On...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: That is a very good question. The Supplementary Estimate is giving just short of €150 million to the Department, which is not insignificant. We have looked at some areas where developments may not conclude in December but in January. That is always a risk where the historical dependence on quarter 4 delivery, which we are turning around, continues. What we have done here is that...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: We wanted to expedite the implementation because we worked hard, and everyone did, to conclude a deal that worked for our firefighters and our personnel across the country. There will be €8 million in additional expenditure this year because the payments are backdated to July as part of the deal. This is additional pay and other allowances for training, turning out at incidents and...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: It will be closer to 8,000 in total, if we go back to 2020, which was the year we came into office. This year we are providing an additional €15 million in this Supplementary Estimate for this year's expenditure. Some of that is due to increased cost, but it is targeting additional homes to come back in. This year we targeted about 2,300 vacant dwellings to bring them back into use...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: No, and I never have.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: They were previously in stock. It is still important they are brought back in. Some are in really bad shape. I will not mention the county, but I was there recently and the homes had been four or five years out of commission. That is the county that was spending €90,000 per home. That is good stock coming back in. I do a report on them separately. They are real homes for real...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: That depends which county you go into.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: That is what we are putting into the land acquisition fund.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: That will make a change.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I am quite happy to.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I am going to come in, okay. So I am not rushing off-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: You are basically looking at some projects that will not conclude this year and that will conclude next year, so we are allocating the money into areas where there is room for more houses. It is pretty clear.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: For other social housing builds.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: Will the Deputy hold on and let me clarify this? We deliver social homes in different ways. In Dublin, which all of us here represent, 50% of social homes, and it is targeted in Housing for All, are delivered through AHBs.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I have gone through it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: Yes. We are in November. The next six weeks will be important for housing completions. These are projections. I cannot tell the Deputy how many. I am telling him that, from what we estimate, and what has come in on CAS-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: That will be spent this year to deliver additional stock.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: The affordable housing fund purchase through local authorities in their delivery will be substantially up on last year, but will be behind-----