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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Professor Crowe for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one observation from an exchange we had with the Department last week. If one takes terrestrial planning, and I know it is not the same, we zone certain geographical areas where certain types of activity are permissible. Even where these is one planning enforcement body, which is our local authority, and even when everybody knows there is a single form to fill in to make a formal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is statistically not true. There are 90,000-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is deflecting and distracting from his own failure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government is not meeting its targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Agreed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Planning is not the problem. Lack of Government delivery is the problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Land Development Agency cannot get these lands. It does not have the power to get these lands.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. My understanding is that of the four local authorities which received the draft regulations at the end of last year, the one in Donegal is refusing to give the Minister’s Department a formal comment because it is not allowed to discuss the regulations with its elected members. I welcome the fact the Minister has asked the SCSI to update the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that for defective blocks?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister, I suppose, is right that people can continue to apply but, as we know, there is a very significant number of people, particularly in Donegal, who are not able to get through stage 1. Part of that is because of the restrictions on IS 465. From what our committee was told, it is unlikely completion of the review or changes to the scheme, in respect of the National Standards...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is except for those who are stalled, that is, the 500 who are stalled at stage 1.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is just shy of 500.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the regulations for and the opening of the enhanced defective concrete block redress scheme. [3597/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister to give us an update on the regulations underpinning the enhanced defective block remediation scheme for homeowners in Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Limerick and an estimated date for when this new scheme will be open for homeowners in Donegal and Mayo and also for those in Clare, Limerick and other counties.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental homes delivered through the cost-rental equity loan in 2022; the number of cost-rental homes delivered by the Land Development Agency in 2022; and the number of affordable purchase homes delivered through the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022. [3842/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister in a position to tell us the number of affordable homes delivered through the three principal public housing affordable schemes set up by his Department last year before the housing fund cost-rental equity loan and the Land Development Agency's Project Tosaigh?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The housing plan has an aggregate target for affordable homes for last year of 4,000 units, as the Minister knows. At no stage has the Minister provided Deputies with a breakdown of how many of those will be through affordable housing fund purchase, the cost-rental equity loan by AHBs, Project Tosaigh or, indeed, the very controversial shared equity loan.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, the shared equity loan homes are not affordable. They are giving people an additional layer of debt but I do not want to have that debate today. What I want to know is what was delivered with the funding provided by the Minister to local authorities and AHBs? We know from the LDA’s website that Project Tosaigh delivered only 48 cost-rental homes last year. As...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concern is twofold. With respect to the affordable housing fund purchases, in my own constituency homes were effectively completed midway through the year but because of disputes over legal contracts, they have not yet been purchased. We expect them to be purchased by February. That means those homes were not ready for occupation. In the Minister’s constituency, he launched...