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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Cowen stands over it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy stands over the assertion that I reduced the build target for 2017. I did not reduce the build target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: That included the voids. If the Deputy does not understand it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: -----we can explain it here again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: We separated the voids, which are not in the build total. The Deputy said that I had reduced the finished targets for builds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: We did not reduce the target for builds. The Deputy asked if I had reduced the target for builds in 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Did I reduce the target for builds in 2017?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Cowen claimed that I had reduced the target for builds in 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Cowen claimed that I had reduced the target for builds in 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Claims have been made about my credibility as a Minister that are very unfair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: The claims go against confidence and supply also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: The confidence and supply works both ways.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chair for her compliments in regard to the Department and the staff who do a huge amount of work. I think they have been engaging very positively with members of the committee even when I cannot do so. Sometimes we will have testy exchanges, which I understand, but, by and large, the committee and the Department work very well together. We are all trying to work to the same...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: It is possible but I do not want to interfere too much in what local authorities are doing. What I do not want to do is have a local authority in a high demand area all of a sudden making acquisitions where either it fails in the acquisition, which then drives the price up for the private buyer who actually buys it, or where it takes away much-needed stock from young families and couples....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: On the capital side in regard to Irish Water, the answer is "No". That would not come from our side; that is an Iris Water issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: No. That would be a matter for Irish Water but what we would want to do with the new delivery unit, the land management office, is to make sure that those problems would not arise and that there would be consistency between a local authority's priorities for large-scale housing development and the priorities of Irish Water for its infrastructural development. In regard to rent-to-buy,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I cannot confirm that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I expect that construction is going to commence on some of those affordable houses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Not necessarily. We are looking at a couple of mechanisms whereby we might be able to fast-track some of the affordable purchase schemes, depending on some of the sites that are currently being identified for local authorities. It might be the case that in a month's time I will not be able to confirm, but right now we have only just landed this with the local authorities. There may be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: No, not at the type of scale that we are talking about in terms of our ambition. I talk about identifying, through land and finance, the potential for over 3,000 affordable purchase scheme homes. However, we are not talking about a large percentage of that being delivered and tenanted this year.