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Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is simply not true.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Misleading the House again.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: In Clonburris 11,000 homes were opposed by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Misleading the House again. That is what the Minister is good for.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: They are not affordable. The Minister should be honest with people.

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]