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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It is very hard to hear.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is not because you are not loud enough. Everybody else is too loud.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is a matter of a timeline and we all know the issue. Even when people get the grant - in Louth County Council it is upwards of €30,000 - it might not cover what it takes to keep somebody in their home and do the works that are necessary. I am dealing with a daughter who is very worried about her mother. It is not only the backlog and how long Louth County Council will take, it is...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Alan Dillon: I thank the Deputy for his question. We understand the importance of housing adaptation grants for people with disabilities, mobility aids and housing aids for older people. These grants are 80% funded by our Department. The Exchequer funded the provision of €74.5 million for the housing adaptation grant for older people and people with a disability scheme, which has increased by...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I will not ask the Minister to respond.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry about that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It was my fault.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Housing Schemes
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to halt and reverse the rise in homelessness. [37052/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will continue the conversation about the tenant in situ scheme because the information both the Minster and Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, have presented is not the same as the information given to local authorities in the circular of June this year. There is a cap - it is 50% above the targets that have been set for local authorities. Anything above the 50% cap must be submitted...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Which ones?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: For example, they tell us that the first instance focus on prevention and the requirement that all other options have to be exhausted will create further delays.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy will get a chance to come back in.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is hugely restrictive and it is a change.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The principle of the purchase of homes of tenants in situ is one that everybody in the House supports.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Last year, we bought 1,830 homes. The original target had been 200. It was reset to 1,500 and we increased it further. Deputy Troy, the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, and I met the chief executive of Westmeath County Council yesterday. For clarification, so that everyone is clear on this, there is no ceiling on the number of homes a local authority can purchase under the scheme...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What the Minister is saying is not the same as what is in the circular given to local authorities. For the sake of clarity, if a local authority has a target of 50 units, it can have a pipeline of 75 units without going back to the Department.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is stated in the circular. Every single property beyond those 75 units, no matter what it costs, has to go to the Department for individual sanction. That is what the circular says. That will take time and is causing problems. Second, the Minister introduced a new and much more restrictive set of criteria. One criterion is that all other options have to be exhausted before the...