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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is committed to introducing some form of redress mechanism for homeowners with defective homes in Budget 2022 arising out of the ongoing work of the independent working group examining the issue of defective housing. [46716/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister is aware, the programme for Government includes a commitment to "examine the issue of defective housing in the first twelve months of Government, having regard to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing report, 'Safe as Houses'". That report included the call for a latent defects redress scheme for homeowners who are affected by fire safety and water...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The difficulty is that, from memory, the Minister announced the working group in September 2020. He appointed the Chair in January or February. The group did not have its first meeting in March. A lot of time was wasted because, in my view, officials from the Minster's Department were trying to impose very restrictive terms of reference. That is a matter of public record. Thankfully, we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody is asking the Minister to put pressure on the group to rush the report; it is the very opposite. However, interim measures could have been considered. For example, for over two years now, the Construction Defects Alliance has been calling for access for homeowners who have had to pay those levies of €10,000 to €20,000 to the same treatment as private landlords currently...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. The difficulty for many on this side of the House is that for a long time we advocated for rent certainty when that was the right policy but rents have now risen so high that a rental increase of 2%, 3%, 4% or possibly 5% is not sustainable, particularly for renters who have experienced a more than doubling in the cost of renting in the past decade....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. The crucial point is that the clock is ticking and that this was entirely foreseeable. In fact, I was not the only Deputy on the Opposition benches to say when the legislation was brought forward in May that this was likely to happen. If the Minister brings forward such a measure, it will get the support of the Opposition and, therefore, I urge him to bring it forward...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes he plans to make to the rent pressure zones if the harmonised index of consumer prices hits and breaches 4%. [46715/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister introduced legislation to link rent reviews to the harmonised index of consumer prices, HICP, he said that inflation was running at approximately 0.4% in the previous four months. Of course, in the month the legislation was enacted, rental inflation was 1.9%, thereafter went up to 2.2% and is now at 3%. What will he do to ensure that if inflation continues to rise, people...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I had a terrible sense of déjà vu when listening to the Minister's speech. So many of the rhetorical flourishes of what he said were used by the then Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, when he stood in this Chamber and told us it was the most ambitious and radical State-backed plan in the history of the State, and again, when former...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason local authorities are not permitted to purchase homes for tenants by social housing support recipients that are put up for sale but are permitted to enter into long-term lease arrangements for these same properties after the social housing support recipient has been evicted on grounds of a vacant possession notice...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the long delay in the publication of the State architecture policy. [46408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the early suspension of the Workplace Relations Commission single water utility led talks over the summer; and the reason the next round of talks have been further delayed until October 2021. [46409/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the excessive processing time in many local authorities for housing applications and HAP applications and the impact of these delays on the ability of persons to access social housing support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46405/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 172. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to bring forward legislation to give effect to the key recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation with respect to Part 8 and section 183 votes in councils. [46406/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Exemptions (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is possible for new, incomplete estates to be added to the list of unfinished estates exempted from local property tax; and if so what is the application process. [46108/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Land Development Agency will be able to apply for either the cost rental equity loan or the affordable housing fund for the provision of affordable housing. [46679/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria that will be used to assess whether an organisation can be designated a cost rental provider under the Affordable Housing Act 2021 and related secondary legislation. [46680/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the categories of organisations that will be eligible to apply for the cost rental equity loan and the affordable housing fund (details supplied). [46681/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go through some pretty straightforward questions. Mr. Ó Coigligh said there would be ongoing operational costs, separate to the one-off cost of €5 million. I presume those are additional costs for both Ervia and Irish Water. Will he put a figure on what that cost will be annually, separate to the €5 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That will be an extra €10 million annually between the two organisations.