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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: Thirteen of the 14 members of the committee are present, so we do not have to ring the bells.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: It gives us a bit of time. As 13 members of the 14 members are present and if they are agreeable to it, I will proceed to the vote. We will do a roll call on amendment No. 1 which reads: The Bill be amended to explicitly prohibit the use of the Serviced Sites Fund for the delivery of for-profit housing by private developers thus ensuring only Local Authorities, Approved Housing Bodies,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: The question is lost. Proposal No.1 is not agreed. We will move on to proposal No. 2 from Deputy Ó Broin. Are you pressing this, Deputy Ó Broin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: The proposals is as follows: The Department carefully consider any proposed linking of affordable cost rents to an index such as CPI in the context of stagnant wage growth for lower income workers and to ensure any system of rent reviews or rent increases is exclusively tied to the principal of full cost recovery only. Is the proposal agreed? Agreed. There is no requirement for a vote...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: We will begin with proposal No. 5, which reads as follows: The Department and Local Authorities carefully examine the interaction between social housing, HAP and affordable cost rental tenancies to ensure the provision of social housing and affordable cost rental accommodation is based on need, that residential developments funded through the Serviced Sites Fund and Cost Rental Shared...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: Yes. I invite Deputy Ó Broin to outline his proposal briefly, which reads as follows: The Bill be amended to explicitly prohibit the use of Cost Rental Equity Loan for the delivery of for-profit housing by private developers thus ensuring only Approved Housing Bodies, Housing Co-Ops and Community Housing Trusts and other not for profit vehicles can access the funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: Does Deputy Ó Broin wish to make a brief summation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: Prepare for the worst.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: I thank the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: I ask the Deputy to conclude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin will be aware that we agreed an amendment that would limit the equity return on cost rental to 3% or 4%. He will also be aware of an amendment that we tabled that will scale up the delivery of cost-rental housing provision in a manner which ensures that cost-rental housing stock remains permanently affordable. I and other members of the committee take great comfort in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Ó Broin. I am going to put this to a vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: Proposal No. 7 is as follows: That the Department include a definition of affordable rental linking it to 30% of net income contained in the CSO annual earnings indicators. Senator Moynihan did not get a chance to speak on this. Is she pressing the amendment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: I will call Senator Moynihan next. The definition of a cost rental tenancy is quite clearly laid out in section 96 of the heads of the Bill that were sent to us. We have also included secure tenancies, tenancies of indefinite duration, permanent affordability and adapting rents to meet people's needs if their income levels change. I think the affordability of cost rental is well covered by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: We will put amendment No. 7 to a vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: We move to amendment No. 8. Senator Rebecca Moynihan, Deputy Cian c and Deputy Eoin Ó Broin put forward similar amendments. We put Deputy O'Callaghan's and Senator Moynihan's together to give us amendment No. 8. Amendment No. 9 covers that as well, right down to the last line on re-profiling the €75 million allocation. Would Deputy O'Callaghan and Senator Moynihan be agreeable...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 8 is withdrawn as it is covered by amendment No. 9.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 9 is proposed by Deputy Ó Broin and Deputy Gould, and, obviously, Deputy O'Callaghan and Senator Moynihan are part of that. I ask everybody to stick to the times. I call Deputy Eoin Ó Broin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: There are three more members indicating a wish to contribute so I ask them to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)
Steven Matthews: We should stick to the proposal as we are almost out of time.