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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school places currently unfilled in schools in Lucan, County Dublin at both primary and secondary school level. [51449/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that her Department is taking to increase capacity in schools across the Lucan, County Dublin area at both primary and secondary level. [51450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 578. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children with leave to remain living in direct provision, with a breakdown by local authority area and by household size, one and two-adult household with no children, households with one child, two children and three children and with more than three children. [51978/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 668. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to delays relating to security clearance for prospective employees of an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52004/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank both local authorities for the presentations and all the data. I acknowledge the enormous work both our guests and their teams in both local authorities do on their housing and homeless brief. If that can be conveyed to the teams, certainly, on my party's behalf, I would appreciate that. I will not ask lots of questions about figures because our heads are probably pickled at this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Where does the figure of 12% come from? How is an affordability requirement of 12% determined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for pressing Mr. Ó Donnabháin on it but will he explain how it works? We understand that the HNDA is a tool provided by the Department but how is a figure of 12% or 1,700 households in need of affordable housing generated? I ask him to explain in the simplest terms possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: How does it work in Galway?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, I am out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Deputy have a particular interest in Cork?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank all of the witnesses for all their answers. Apologies, I had to step out for a little bit of work. I know it is a long meeting but the information they have given us is genuinely valuable so I hope they do not feel we are having them here under sufferance. I have one request and two questions. This committee is doing a separate piece of work trying to understand housing need and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they were included, would we be looking at a total of 7,500 to 8,000 households?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The split is approximately 50:50 in terms of the council list-plus. This point is important because it is not common practice for all local authorities to present their elected members with a gross and net need. Having a gross need figure is a really useful tool. When the Housing Agency publishes its summary of housing needs assessments, which it will do again later this year, it only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was I who asked the question and that is my interpretation of the answer. There was not clarity in the response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is very good news. I presume then that when the council reports back to its elected members, the reporting mechanism will reflect that? I take it, then, that what is in the December housing delivery action plans is one thing but the figures are adjusted by councils as they move through the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The previous Government's housing plan expired in 2021. From that plan, 6,000 or so units were missed across the State over the final two years. Those 6,000 units have not been added into anything else. The councils have a separate set of targets they have agreed with the Department under the new plan and if those targets are missed, they will be rolled in and carried forward. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: My point is not to criticise the lost targets, which happened for a bunch of reasons. It is more about wanting to understand the transition from one plan to another and what happened to the very considerable number of units, numbering 6,000 between 2020 and 2021 across a range of local authorities, that were lost. Where do they go? Are they subsumed into the new targets, added to the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: My observation is not specific to Galway City Council but is a general one. If we take the social housing target in the first year of the Housing for All plan, it is approximately 9,000 units for the new-build programme, whereas Rebuilding Ireland was to end in 2021 with delivery of 10,000 units. Even though there was a significant loss of units from the targets in 2020 and 2021, the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses and apologise for taking more time than I should have done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On section 10s, what kind of timelines are we looking at?