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Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy has voted against every measure on home ownership. He continues to oppose schemes right across the country.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: We are now able to start building at Oscar Traynor Road. The Deputy's party opposed that development for years and years and years. I commend the countermotion to the House.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: — the Government is taking the challenges in the rental sector and the increase in the number of people accessing homeless supports in recent months very seriously and, through the implementation of Housing for All: A New Housing Plan for Ireland, the...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Home permissions, completions and purchases, as well as first-time buyers and mortgage drawdowns, are all at record levels. There was an annual increase of 37.8% in the total number of new homes approved for planning permissions in quarter one of 2023 compared with quarter one of the previous year.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt the Deputy. He should try to behave himself for once. There were 3,059 commenced in May 2023, an increase of 11.4% over the same period. Since January, nearly 13,000 new homes have been commenced, which is the highest ever for this period. A total of 6,716 new homes were completed in the first three months of this year, a near 20% increase on quarter one last year....

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The number of homes purchased by all buyer types has gone from a low of just 25,699 in 2011 to more than 52,600 last year. First-time buyers remain the largest segment, by volume, with more than 25,000 drawdowns in 2022 and many of them accessing the schemes the Government has brought forward. More home mortgages were approved for first-time buyers in May this year than in any other month...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Some 10,263 social homes were delivered in 2022, representing a 12% increase on 2021, the highest annual output of social homes in decades and the highest level of delivery of new-build social homes since-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: It is a pity the Deputy was not here to ask questions last week and most of his colleagues were not here either. Please afford me the opportunity of responding on the Sinn Féin motion. A strong pipeline of social and affordable housing is now in place, with more than 19,000 new build social homes in the pipeline and during-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: A Chathaoirligh Gníomhach, it is impossible to respond to-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: During quarter one of this year, 1,454 adults, as well as children, exited or were prevented from entering emergency accommodation-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----by way of a tenancy being created-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Not true.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 324, 325 and 326 together. Finance Act 2021 introduced Part 22A Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) into the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. The RZLT is designed to prompt residential development by landowners, including farmers, of land that is zoned for residential or mixed-use (including residential) purposes and that is serviced. The tax applies to land that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: In relation to the Residential Zoned Land Tax, only land that has been zoned for residential use or for a mixture of uses including residential within a local authority development plan or local area plan, as adopted by the elected members of the local authority, and that is serviced, will potentially fall into scope for the tax. Zoned land that is within the scope of RZLT will be identified...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Finance Act 2021 introduced Part, 22A Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT), into the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. The RZLT is a land activation measure identified in Housing for All and is aimed at increasing housing supply by prompting residential development by landowners, of land that is zoned for residential or mixed-use (including residential) purposes in a development plan or local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: An Bord Pleanála (the Board) is the national independent statutory body with responsibility for the determination of planning appeals and direct applications for strategic infrastructure and other developments under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and certain other Acts. Thetotal number of Board members currently serving in An Bord Pleanála is 14, with a further...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The flexibility of Housing Assistance Programme (HAP) as a social housing support is one of the scheme's key characteristics and was one of the primary benefits envisaged at the outset of the scheme. With this in mind, my Department issued circulars relating to inter-authority movement in 2017 and 2019, with the aim of facilitating movement of HAP households from one local authority area to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The most recently published summary for all counties, conducted in November 2022, is available at: www.gov.ie/en/collection/62486-summary-of-social-housing-ass essments/. My Department publishes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Under the provisions of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (the Act), each local authority maintains a Vacant Sites Register in respect of their functional area with sites listed in such registers being liable to the vacant site levy, also introduced under the provisions of the Act. As provided for under the Act, the register in respect of each local authority is available for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 354 and 355 together. The draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 was published in January and the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has undertaken a significant pre-legislative scrutiny process on the draft Bill. Their report contains more than 150 recommendations, which I am considering carefully. My Department continues...