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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Hold on a second. I have a responsibility to ensure we deliver value for money for the taxpayer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: We are negotiating these contracts with each local authority to bring online approximately 23,000 new homes through the €200 million provided in LIHAF funding. I must ensure I am satisfied with the contracts before I sign them. We are already at design stage with a number of those projects which will come on site very quickly. On the vacant house strategy, during the summer I said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: That is a separate issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The work on vacancy is well under way. We have an empty homes unit in the Department and vacancy teams in local authorities. More than 1,000 vacant homes in the various local authorities have been reported through vacanthomes.ie. We have to identify the vacant homes and the reason for vacancy to ensure our incentives package can tackle the vacancy issue. It must be targeted, rather than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is proving my point by referring to an incorrect census figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: What is the figure? If the Deputy has one, he should tell me what it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: What about the next village?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: That is brilliant. We now have a figure of 36.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: That is ridiculous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: NAMA has a mandate to provide 20,000 homes. As it reaches the conclusion of its work, there has been some discussion about its role, which brings me to Deputy Cowen's question on what was happening in this regard. The Minister for Finance, the Taoiseach and I have done work in recent months to examine whether there may be a new focus for NAMA when it completes its primary mandate, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I will start with the Deputy's final point. After I met the Ó Cualann Cohousing Alliance at site on the day on which the keys were handed over, its representatives came back to the Department and we went through the mechanics of how it had been able to develop that site and the different things that it had done. As I said in Limerick at a two-day conference on social housing with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes. We are looking at it. I was going to bring something shortly but if Deputy Cowen's Bill has something that we can work with, then we will get it in even more quickly. On CPOs, Louth has done a great job. Dublin City Council gave me numbers about a recent CPO-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: -----project that it did. This was a separate matter. There might have been 25 or 26 CPOs that it pursued. As a result of it issuing the letters regarding CPOs, two thirds of those properties were put back into the private rental market and one third were leased through the local authority for housing in a much quicker timeframe. It did not have to go through the lengthy process of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I will have to go back to Dublin City Council and ask it again. When I first came took up my position, I met the Attorney General and wrote to him formally to say that we needed to see if we could enhance our use of CPOs because it might be the quickest way to get vacant sites back into use rather than putting in place a levy, as we did on property and on land, that would have a certain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: They are going to have significant impact on what we are trying to achieve.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Some 200-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Every site is different in its mix. There might be houses in public and private ownership, NAMA or an international investor might be involved, and the relevant infrastructure connections to the road, whether water or electricity must also be taken into account. The Deputy referred to a site that NAMA might have in his constituency and said that of 2,000 units that might be delivered, only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I know that has happened on certain sites but I do not know the position regarding the NAMA site to which the Deputy refers because I do not have the details in front of me. The Deputy claims that it is only 10% but it not certain what affordability might also be delivered on the site in question. I cannot speak to the individual circumstances of Cherrywood because we are at a sensitive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: To quickly return to the numbers again, there is €5.3 billion for Rebuilding Ireland in the capital plan to deliver what is needed. I have a commitment from the Minister for Finance that there will be an increase in this from 2019. That will be announced in the budget. We should not rely on the numbers from 2008 because that was before a massive recession, caused because we had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: It is not my opinion.