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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: They benefit from the affordable housing fund as well, which is quite unusual but there has not been a change. They will still be managed by the LDA and so it will effectively be LDA stock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, sure. I suspect when John Coleman is in front of us, he might account for them differently in the sense that they are his targets. It is just so we are clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that really the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is good to know. On affordable housing, I am open to the idea of availing of opportunities in the market, subject to value for money, location and proper design style acquiring. The challenge, however, is that at the moment it is virtually impossible to do affordable cost rental as turnkeys in Dublin city or Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown as prices are just too high. Even in O'Devaney...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Keegan should not take this as a criticism, but that is getting lost in our conversation. When it started, the affordable housing fund was the serviced sites fund, with all its imperfections. The assumption was there would be all-in delivery costs of €300,000, €40,000 would be knocked off with the equity share and someone would be able to sell the property at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask the question in a different way. I am not trying to be difficult. Brendan Kenny gave a figure of €1,300 per month for St. Michael's back in 2019. Knowing what we know about cost inflation between then and now, we are probably looking at €1,500, depending on what a tender would come in at today. That might go down at a later stage but we are not expecting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am looking for an educated guess.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has CREL been increased to €150,000 as well or is it just the affordable housing fund? Is it that the local authorities can use the affordable housing fund for cost rental if they are doing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think Ms Keenan knows the answer to my question. Has CREL increased from €100,00 to €150,000 or is that yet to be decided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: To what percentage has it increased?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, the challenge here is entry-level rents. Have there been any successful CREL cost-rental turnkeys in either of the local authorities up to now or are there any in the pipeline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, this is not a criticism but that points to the fact that for the AHBs that are doing the applications, CREL does not stack up in delivering genuine affordability in two local authorities that admittedly had specific constraints because private sector land prices are high and development costs are higher. That suggests it will be difficult to deliver cost rental in Dún...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is €1,500 a month rent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept that. My point is that we started off at €1,200 per month and we are now at €1,500. That might be 25% below market rent but, in terms of affordability for those people above the threshold for social housing, for whom cost rental is key, €1,500 is prohibitively expensive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am over time. I thank the Chairman. If there is time later in the meeting, I will come in again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two very quick comments, which do not need a response, and then a question for both local authorities. We have to be careful not to accept that some of the tender prices the local authorities unfortunately have to sign up to are actually the real cost of building. As far back as 2019, Dublin City Council, through no fault of its own, was effectively having to sign contracts where a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. O'Reilly obviously has some visibility on the pipeline for the coming months. Are exits into social housing likely to stay roughly where they are or will they increase between now and the end of the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know Dublin City Council always has to answer questions about homelessness but we should not let the county off the hook. What is the position in respect of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a brief question in respect of self-accommodation. When someone is in crisis, presents as homeless and no emergency accommodation is available, suggesting that they then go and ring around hotels to self-accommodate is a particularly punitive thing. I do not mean that as a criticism but I note it considering the stress they are under. We had done away with that self-accommodation...