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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have never ignored the Chair’s ruling. The Deputy has continually interrupted me. If I could answer in this regard, one could look at last year and those who exited emergency accommodation. Some 2,815 adults exited emergency accommodation by way of a tenancy being created and over 4,000 adults were prevented from entering emergency accommodation. One could look at some other...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: As the Deputy is aware, affordability is at the heart of Housing for All. Since its launch, over 3,800 affordable homes have been delivered, supported by the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan, Project Tosaigh and the first home scheme. This momentum will continue as the pipeline of affordable housing delivery is developed and expanded by our delivery partners, including...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No one is massaging figures at all. Let me give exact figures as I regularly do. Take the affordable housing fund. We have approved 4,300 affordable purchase homes through that fund across 21 local authorities, involving over €370 million in grant aid. I will give just three examples. Cois Farraige in Blackrock, County Louth, where there are three-bedroom homes from...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Again the Deputy will try to use the figures for his own narrative. The equity that the local authorities hold on behalf of the State does not have to be paid back and no interest is charged on that either.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: At the very end.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Also, this Government legislated for and brought forward cost rental in the Affordable Housing Act and it has changed the cost rental equity loan to ensure more and more cost rental properties are being delivered. This did not exist before this Government came in either. They are a minimum of 25% below market and provide secure tenure for people. They are extremely popular for people out...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Look.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Every cost-rental scheme has been substantially oversubscribed. We have increased the net income limits. The Deputy quoted gross income limits. The net income limits for Dublin are €66,000 and €59,000 in the rest of the country. It is an extremely popular form of tenure that is actually working. I know that disappoints the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: As the Deputy will be aware, supporting individuals and families facing homelessness is a key priority for me and the Government. Critical to supporting households to exit homelessness is increasing supply. Thankfully, we are seeing supply increase substantially. At the end of quarter 1, we will have our social housing and affordable numbers for 2023 which I predict will show an increase...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Supply, I think everyone agrees, is key. If one looks at where we have come from when this Government came into office and since Housing for All, we have exceeded our overall housing delivery targets, not only on social housing but across the board. We need to do that. We need to ensure that we have a stable private rental sector as well. There are many reasons people fall into...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is correct.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I ask Deputy Ó Broin to not interrupt me and let me answer the question. The Deputy can come back in. That is correct. Effectively, what one needs is different supports for different people. We have new arrivals. We have people coming into homelessness due to family break-up, not only through the private rental sector. I note, by the way, that the Deputy had a motion that he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 73, 74 and 115 together. At its core, the Government's Housing for All plan is about significantly increasing the supply of housing of the right type, in the right place, and at an affordable price. To this end, the plan comprises a suite of priority measures to transform our housing system, seeking to secure its sustainability into the future and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 76, 83, 118 and 139 together. Pathway 4 of Housing for All sets out a blueprint to address vacancy and make efficient use of our existing housing stock. The Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant supports bringing vacant and derelict properties back into use. A grant of up to a maximum of €50,000 is available for the refurbishment of vacant properties for...