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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not at O'Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road it is not, with the greatest of respect.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Fianna Fáil was in government during all of that period and refused to fund it. It sat on its hands, starved our local authorities of resources and would not fund the building.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is giving us a shocking distortion of the truth.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just not affordable homes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no value for money when we are paying Bartra €400,000 for a social house. That is not value for money.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is responsible for a breach of the public spending code.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no cost rental in Oscar Traynor Road. That is not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister just will not stick to the facts.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the increased reliance on turnkeys by local authorities, approved housing bodies, the Land Development Agency and the Housing Agency for the delivery of social and affordable housing as outlined in the Government’s new housing plan will inflate the cost of social and affordable housing and will put...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister is aware, his housing plan has a range of new measures and specifically for the delivery of social and affordable housing. One concern many of us have is that, certainly in the early years of this plan, there will be an increased reliance on turnkey affordable purchases of private sector developments. Does the Minister share this concern? If not, can he give us the reasons...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand the theory. The problem is that it is going to run into some significant problems in practice, particularly when we look at the pipeline. As the Minister is aware, 2020 is the last year for which we have figures, and half of all new-build social homes were turnkey units delivered by local authorities and approved housing bodies. The other half was partly Part Vs and partly...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Based on what the Cabinet announced today, unfortunately, not only will half those homes be unaffordable private units but, equally, the 22% of homes that are so-called affordable will also be way beyond the reach of ordinary people. What we want are affordable public homes on public land. In fact, the all-in cost of the affordable purchase in this regard, based on Cabinet information...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not affordable.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given his role in overseeing the vacant homes strategy, his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between derelict units recorded in the GeoDirectory residential buildings report and those on the derelict sites register nationally; if his attention has been further drawn to the lack of implementation and collection...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he plans to take to slow down the disorderly exit of accidental and semi-professional landlords from the private rented sector and its impact on rising levels of homelessness. [3576/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, since 2017 there has been a net loss of 20,000 rental tenancies from the private rental sector. That equates to about 7,000 a year up to 2020. We do not have data from the Residential Tenancies Board for last year but the expectation is that the rate will continue. Given this loss of rental properties is one of the many factors contributing to the crisis in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: None of what the Minister said addressed the core question I asked. What is the plan to deal with the disorderly exit of semi-professional and accidental landlords from the market, something that has been in train for three years and will more than likely continue for four years? The argument that supply will tackle the problem simply does not add up. The Government's housing plan promises...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: What that shows is that the Minister has no plan and landlords will continue to sell up.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have repeatedly called for four key policies. The Minister knows them but I will repeat them again. The first is to end the prohibition on local authorities buying properties with housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenants in situ when the landlord is selling. Many landlords who are leaving the market would be delighted for the local authority to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: At what price?