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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The hope is that targets could be exceeded next year if the Minister gets a clear year.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the clarity. I have four very quick questions, if he does not mind. Are the 700 acquisitions the Minister mentioned in response to Deputy O'Flaherty's question acquisitions or tenant in situacquisitions? I have asked parliamentary questions and the Department has told me officially that it cannot separate out standard acquisitions under the original scheme from...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I 100% agree.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister has it, which I presume will be in the first quarter of next year, it might be useful to make that distinction in any published data on acquisitions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is perfect. I have three final questions. The €70 million for Irish Water obviously arises out of the arrangements for design, build and operate contracts. Was any attempt made to introduce burden sharing or to look at the profits of the private operators? Is the State taking on the full extra cost of the increased utility charges or are the design, build and operate...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am specifically asking about the €70 million in the Estimate, which is current expenditure.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two final questions and, again, if the Minister does not have the answers, it would be great if he could share them with the committee later. Obviously, any increase in capital assistance scheme, CAS, funding is welcome. Moving capital from one area to another to avoid a surrender is valuable. It would be good to know where those extra 600 units are and what kind of CAS...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that mean some of it might have planning permission already or-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister can share that information with the committee, we would welcome it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not looking for information on the level of debt; it is more the location and size of the land.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Gould might be back. He may squeeze in just a few final questions for the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We could reasonably finish at 3.30 p.m., which will be two hours. That is reasonable enough.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am looking for a few quick-fire updates on some other matters. The quicker the Minister can give me responses, the quicker I will get through the updates, if he does not mind. The regulations for the enhanced defective blocks scheme were meant to be completed by the end of this year and the new scheme was meant to be open for applications next year. Does he expect that timeline will...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a chance they will slip?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of those homes, and the Minister and I have been in some of them, are still stuck at stage 1 -----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----because the central issue is pyrrhotite rather than mica. I will ask a follow-up question on emergency accommodation. Those families need emergency accommodation but half the applications are still stuck in phase 1, some for almost two years. The quicker we can get that pyrrhotite issue resolved and get them onto stage 2, the better.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that. I do not want to cut across the Minister but while we are waiting for the review of IS 465, there is an independent-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is an interim measure whereby there could be some flexibility in the operation of the current statutory instrument to allow those homes the Minister has been in, which are very clearly not fit for habitation, to be progressed in advance of the review of IS 465. Is that something the Minister is considering?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there any provision for emergency accommodation?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate the response. All I ask is that the sooner the Minister is in a position to clarify any of those matters regarding when the regulations will be done, when the scheme will be open, and when there will be emergency accommodation, the better. I have two other very quick questions because we are conscious of the Minister's time rather than ours. We could stay here all day. In...