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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Can I be allowed to answer the question?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: What I am saying to Deputy Ó Broin----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy may not want to listen to the answer but I have given him the answer, very clearly. We have ramped up significantly additional accommodation through social housing new builds of more than 5,000 in the last quarter of last year and over 1,800 in the first two months of this year. More than 600 homes have been purchased since July and-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: For many reasons. It is not as simple as that and the Deputy knows it-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----but it does not suit his narrative.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: We have made a responsible decision in the interests of the public.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank Deputy Smith for the question. As he knows, the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Act 2022 was a time-limited enactment which provided for a stay on eviction notices up to 31 March 2023, with deferred tenancy terminations taking effect over a staggered period from 1 April to 18 June 2023. In terms of the longer term, my Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: In implementing the key objectives under Housing for All, each local authority has prepared a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery from 2022 to 2026. 18 local authorities with a strong and identified affordable housing need, including both Cork City Council and Cork County Council, were also set affordable housing delivery targets and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: In implementing the key objectives under Housing for All, each local authority has prepared a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery from 2022 to 2026. Local authorities with a strong affordable housing need, including both Meath and Louth County Council, were also set affordable housing delivery targets and asked to include planned...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Government is committed to meeting the needs of everyone by increasing the supply of homes through our Housing for All Plan. Since October 2022, over 5,000 new build social homes were delivered, over 500 homes were acquired by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies, and over 600 homes were delivered through leasing programmes. In January, we increased the social housing income...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Further to work commissioned by the Department, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) published a report into structural housing demand in Ireland to 2040, in December 2020. The ESRI’s research projected an annual new household demand figure for each county from 2016 to 2040, for a number of different development scenarios, including the National Planning Framework (NPF)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 101 and 124 together. Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022-2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). Under Housing for All, there...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies Board, or RTB, was established as a quasi-judicial independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2022 to regulate the rental sector; provide information to tenants and landlords; maintain a national register of tenancies; resolve disputes between tenants and landlords; and conduct research and provide information to inform policy. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 104, 136 and 155 together. The continuing increase in the numbers accessing emergency accommodation is a serious concern for me and for the Government. We are doing everything in our power to tackle this problem, both by increasing housing supply and investing in homelessness prevention. The budget for 2023 makes provision for €215m in funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All was published 2 September 2021 and the Government published its first annual update of the plan's actions on 2 November 2022. Progress reports are published quarterly. The sixth of these reports, covering progress in Q4 2022 was published on 7 February 2023. These reports can be accessed my Department's website at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government is committed to ensuring that the local government sector remains vibrant and sustainable and is well equipped and properly resourced to deliver the key functions within its remit. My Department has a wide and diverse business agenda, covering a broad range of functions including local authority housing, voluntary housing, homeless services, estate regeneration, energy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 and 108 together. Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. 2022 represented the first year of a very ambitious programme of affordable housing delivery. Significant funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 and 119 together. The Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Act 2022 was signed into law on 29 October 2022. This Act provided for a stay on eviction notices of certain residential tenancies that fall, or would fall, during the 'winter emergency period', beginning on 30 October 2022 and ending on 31 March 2023,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. 2022 represented the first year of a very ambitious programme of affordable housing delivery. Significant funding has...