Results 901-920 of 14,941 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is avoiding the question. He is also putting misleading figures to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Please answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is not addressing the question, with the greatest of respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: In the last minute, can I have a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Here is the problem. I asked two very reasonable questions. One was whether the Minister is concerned by the rising cost of homes under the affordable housing scheme and cost rental because the agencies delivering those homes are concerned. I also asked him whether he has any plans to try to bring down those costs because a growing number of households for which these schemes are meant to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The straight answer is the Minister is clearly not concerned about the price and has no proposals to bring down those rents or house prices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister had plenty of time-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----and he refused and that speaks volumes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear. I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I want to raise a couple issues from the Housing Commission's report. There is a lot of depth to the report, but the most significant aspect of it is the issue of the housing deficit. When one reads the chapter it is not about the size of the deficit. The Minister will know the commission talks of a deficit of somewhere between 212,000 and 256,000 homes. The commission is very critical of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have two supplementary questions. The last ESRI report did not examine or estimate what unmet demand was. That was not a part of the report. My question is a very specific one, namely, in the report it is currently doing, is the ESRI being asked, in addition to headship and migration, to produce its own estimate of the housing deficit because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Let me finish the question, because there is a reason it is important. What the Minister is saying is that the ESRI is not going to be asked to do that in the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking whether the ESRI report will include its estimation of unmet demand or the deficit. The answer will be either a "Yes" or a "No". The second thing is, just to be very clear, in order to reach 20% of total housing stock being social and affordable or affordable rental, we would not need to be producing 20% of all new builds each year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It would need to be at least 50%. It would therefore be a quantum shift in the overall output. The NDP included a commitment to provide around 10,000 social homes, and cost-rental housing will add a few thousand to that figure. The scale of that change would also mean the capital ceilings in the national development programme would have to change. This would mean increasing targets and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final comment and question. The Department's current plan and targets never took into account that demand. That is the entire problem. They were based on an ESRI report that did not include it. My final question is on the bar chart on page 30 of the Housing Commission's report, which sets out the deficit separate from the baseline of the ESRI. The import of the Housing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: My apologies. It is the analysis. Does the Minister accept the analysis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Before I go into this question, would be possible for one of the Minister's officials to draft a short briefing note for the committee on a very technical aspect of the affordable housing fund legislation? I refer to the long backstop and what I call the 40-year rule, which is one of the conditions under which the local authorities can seek the full repayment of the equity. I am not going...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: May I ask when did it start? When did the review commence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I also do not want to stray into the Peter McVerry Trust issues at this time. It would be very helpful if the officials were able to provide the committee with a note as to when the terms of reference were agreed. If the Minister could share the terms of reference with us, it would be helpful. When did the review commence? Who is on it and when will it conclude? I certainly would...