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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?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We just want people to be able to afford houses.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: At what price?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: At what price?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: They are not affordable.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: €400,000 for a family home.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: An affordable housing crisis, created by you.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We are against unaffordability for working people.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Fleecing people.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach is not living in the real world.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of genuinely affordable homes to rent and to buy on an estate (details supplied) and Poolbeg, Dublin city. [3324/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the social housing output as of the end of Q4 of 2021. [3323/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide further details on the way that a person who has been through the insolvency process can access the local authority mortgage scheme. [3326/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the ongoing negotiations between the various parties on the creation of a single water utility. [3327/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the findings of the report A Hidden Crisis: Traveller homelessness in the South West published 18 January 2022; and the response by his Department to the report. [3325/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the full year expenditure for housing assistance payment, rental accommodation scheme and leasing for 2021 will be available. [3518/22]