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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Could I speak without interruption, please?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is always the case that when Deputies do not like the answer, they interrupt.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Acting Chairman. I published 14 tests and I gave them to Deputy Ó Broin. He is aware of them. He did not come back with one change in language that would help us to address the concerns of those 14 tests.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am telling the Deputy that we are working on it. I asked him for help. I said let us try to do this by consensus. The Deputy has not bothered. We have been working hard. The Deputy knows how complex it is.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Do not put this on us. The Deputy’s party has plenty of legal advice because he is always talking about it. He knows how difficult this is.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: If it was so simple, the Deputy would have found the wording.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 47, 50, 52, 53 and 93 together. Rebuilding Ireland is designed to significantly increase the supply of social housing by 50,000 homes in the period to 2021, to double the output of overall housing to at least 25,000 homes per year by 2020, support all tenure types - social, private, rental - and tackle homelessness comprehensively. In 2018, 8,000 new...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There are a number of questions grouped.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I understood that when we grouped questions, my reply could be-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. The Deputy is well able to use statistics when they suit him. Facts matter, and behind each of the numbers that I mentioned is a family, a child or an individual who has been helped because of our plans. There are now fewer than 100 people sleeping rough on our streets, which is too many, but it is a very important reduction. It has not been that low since...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: That is how we solve this crisis.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I have to dispute the comments Deputy Boyd Barrett has made. Supply is the answer and supply is increasing. One should look at the numbers going into emergency accommodation since I came into office and the numbers today. Yes, an increase in the region of 2,500 is unacceptable, but in that same period, 12,000 people left homelessness. That would not have been possible if we were not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 46 and 78 together. The Government is firmly committed to keeping public water services in public ownership, as reflected in the Water Services Acts and in the water services policy statement 2018-2025.  This position is consistent with the April 2017 report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, which...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I have several pages before me detailing the various engagements we have had with Deputy Collins and the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government on this matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The last engagement was on 15 July, when the committee was notified of our concerns. I have spoken to Deputy Collins in person since we came back after the summer recess about the work that was ongoing in the Office of the Attorney General. I have an email from the Attorney General dating from October which outlines several concerns that are still held in that office. The Office of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: That is all available on the Rebuilding Ireland website.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I have given a commitment, on which I followed through, to publish the targets for every local authority each year. Those targets are published and a follow-up is given. The task force is to try to achieve the targets. Last year, there were 24 builds in the city. That is not very good. We are going to increase it by four this year. That one local authority can increase the number by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am not playing with figures and there is no grand conspiracy here. We published the targets for a reason. They include local authority builds, AHB builds, what is happening on private sites with Part V developments, what my Department oversees and what the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform approves. If those figures were made up, there would be a grand conspiracy involving...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: This year we will increase the social housing stock by 10,000 homes. More than 6,000 of those will be directly built for social housing, either by local authorities, AHBs or using the Part V process. We no longer rely on one stream of social housing delivery because we learned from the past that outsourcing it to the private sector leaves the strategy completely exposed if the private...