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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: That is not a funding problem. It is a problem caused by landlords serving notices to quit.

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 thank Deputy Coppinger.

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 building more houses. However, if a person is made homeless because a notice to quit is served upon him or her, that is not a Government funding 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 Government has taken action. It is putting protections in place.

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 Government is putting protections in place. I ask the committee to recognise that while work is being done in this area, we recognise that more has to be done and we are doing more. I recently met the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, to discuss a change management programme to make it a stronger regulator in the sector such that it could put greater protections in place for tenants and...

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 thank the Chairman. I ask Deputy Cowen not to come back to me with the 2008 figures and ignore all of the history that happened in between.

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 premise of Deputy Cowen's questioning is that he believes that what the then Government was spending in 2008 was actually sustainable, when it was not-----

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: -----and we had a property crash and an economic crisis right after that.

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 have not rejected one proposal from a local authority based on funding. In relation to the powers of local authorities to serve compulsory purchase orders, the case history shows us that in the CPO process the majority of CPOs are resolved without ever having to go to court or having to acquire the property. It does not come down to a funding issue in that case. We want to get the local...

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 history of the CPO process shows that very few actually come down to court cases.

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 do not have that 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: We looked at the CPOs at the housing summit and we talked about a better use of them by local authorities and that was one of the things we talked about in the course of that meeting. In relation to the repair and lease scheme, we know it has not worked and we know why it has not worked. I will announce changes to it shortly. In regard to the fast track process in An Bord Pleanála-----

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 know that the ten year timeline is too long for people to engage in a lease agreement. The do not want to do that. We know it has been a significant impediment to people taking up that scheme. We know there are other problems around it in respect of engaging with local authorities and what the Deputy referred to as a cumbersome process. We are aware of these issues and will be making...

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: If the guidelines are that clear, I do not why the application failed. I cannot answer that question.

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 actual application failed.

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 do not know why the application failed because I have not looked at the application. I have full confidence in An Bord Pleanála and the judgments it make.

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 do not know why those applications failed. Obviously they were not complying with good planning.

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: There are 5,000 units or homes under consideration by An Bord Pleanála in the fast track process. I think that is very positive.

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 cannot tell the Deputy why the applications failed.

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 met the members of An Bord Pleanála. New directors have been appointed very recently to the board. We are looking for additional funding.