Results 641-660 of 6,904 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024) Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask the Minister about housing adaptation grants. As he will know, there is significant unmet need in this regard. There are also a lot of waiting lists operating in different local authorities. It is something that comes up in the Dáil frequently. Deputies from different constituencies frequently raise issues around housing adaptation grants, people not being able to get them...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024) Cian O'Callaghan: I hope there will not be underspends in other areas towards the end of the year. I if there are, could putting more resources into this area be considered?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024) Cian O'Callaghan: What is the timeline on that review?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024) Cian O'Callaghan: It is a very important area.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024) Cian O'Callaghan: There was a €220 million underspend under that heading and that was reallocated elsewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. There was no mention of homelessness in his opening statement; why not? Since he has become Minister, we have had record levels of homelessness. When he took office in June 2020, there were far too many people homeless with 8,699 people living in homeless emergency accommodation. There are now more than 14,000 people living in homeless...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister often references the exits and permanent, secure housing and tenancies. It is very welcome when people exit homelessness to permanent, secure housing tenancies. What he did not mention is that a lot of the exits are back into precarious situation with people sleeping on floors, couches and even ending up in hospital and so forth. When he speaks about exits, he should actually...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Then I will have two further questions after that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: No, they are not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: He or she has gone onto a floor or a couch.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I have two further questions. It simply is not true that the vast majority of exits are into permanent, secure tenancies; that is not the case. Approximately half the exits are back into precarious situations with people back to sleeping on floors, couches, sometimes ending up in hospital and so forth. To give the impression that the vast majority of people exiting emergency accommodation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: There are a lot of recommendations in the Housing Commission report in a number of key areas but one of the key arguments is that the housing deficit needs to be addressed and that there needs to be a delivery unit to do that. When the Minister published the report he was quite dismissive of that recommendation. He did say he would take a closer look at it. Is that still his position? He...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The question was really on the delivery unit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: How long will the work the Housing Agency is doing take to complete?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Is there a timeframe on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Finally, I just want to ask about the development levies being waived. Is that funded or is that just not funded? Are the levies needed for infrastructure lost altogether or is there replacement funding for them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Were the paid in full?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I earlier raised a point about exits from homelessness. The quarterly report published by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The quarterly reports by the DRHE provide more than the number of exits into secure housing tenancies. The reports on local authority homeless performance published by the Department give a detailed breakdown of exits from homelessness and show that a considerable number of people do not move into secure housing tenancies but back into precarious situations. I am sure the Minister is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The homeless performance reports that the Department publishes-----