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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans approved in principle and drawn down in each local authority area in the first two quarters of 2020, in tabular form. [28160/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if businesses that are accessing the commercial rates waiver can continue to do so if they are also on the vacant sites register. [28631/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he has extended the pyrite mediation scheme to County Limerick while refusing to do the same for homeowners affected by pyrite in County Clare. [28751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties that have been secured to purchase arising from his call for housing; a breakdown of the number of houses secured by local authority type and number of bedrooms. [28752/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which funding for the greyhound industry was spent in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, for example, the amount spent on welfare and on which initiatives, in tabular form. [28113/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I start by saying that there are nine sitting weeks left in the session, so not including this week, we will have nine meetings in this room. We can have additional virtual meetings but it is nevertheless a short period. I assume we will have at least one, if not two, pieces of Government legislation during those nine weeks for which we will have to provide time. These are the marine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It might be useful if we re-circulate the original proposal that was agreed by the last committee. Essentially, my proposal is very simple. Instead of this committee producing a big report involving meeting representatives of the industry, experts and so on, the idea is to invite one person who was directly involved in the production of each of the five reports published between 1972 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do not have to make a decision today, but the specific request is that I be allowed to start doing the preparatory work as the author of the draft report. There is a fair amount of research which must be done before any hearings so I need the green light for that or otherwise for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a meeting we could do virtually which would give us a little more time and we would not be constrained to two hours. There have been 34 or 35 recorded deaths of people in emergency accommodation or sleeping rough. There is no official count, but those are the deaths that have been reported in the press. Dublin, Cork and Galway reported them. Last year there were 34 deaths in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to make one small point. For those Deputies who represent rural constituencies and, in particular, those in the Dublin commuter belt, the flip side of that is the lack of provision of emergency accommodation in other areas. As a result of this, people are forced into the parts of Dublin with larger volumes of emergency accommodation. One recent change is that the Dublin Regional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a really important issue, and we need to separate it from the issue of defects. This does not just affect apartments. Any observer of large new residential developments will notice that an increasing number of houses are being brought under the remit of owners' management companies, sometimes in very questionable ways. We are seeing this in Adamstown and parts of Lucan. I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be efficient with our time, if the Government is to bring in LDA legislation, we might combine that to have an LDA briefing on all of its work to date in a Zoom format, and follow that with consideration of the Bill. I am happy to be supportive of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Members will recall that we held five separate pre-legislative scrutiny meetings in October, November and December last year, but we are expecting the Bill to be significantly changed. The previous committee made a very detailed submission looking for quite substantial changes. It is my understanding that the Government wants to publish the legislation before the end of 2020, so it will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. This is one of those instances of "We told you so". Members from a variety of parties who opposed this legislation when it was introduced in 2016 highlighted that it was designed to circumvent the city and county development plans. The legislation is clear. When taking a planning decision, local authorities must abide by city and county development plans. The board does not. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a piece of legislation, whether we get it before or after Christmas, the issue is in there as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support Senator Cummins's suggestion that we do a session on affordable housing. We know the Minister is due to introduce a new affordable housing scheme and there might be more money in the budget for it, so that is something we should do. On Senator Fitzpatrick's proposal, the Department is doing an assessment of the financing of all the different delivery mechanisms for social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The reclassification of the approved housing bodies has been back off the Government balance sheet, which is a big issue, as are the issues of funding and land provision for the approved housing bodies. It would be useful to do a whole session looking at the range of issues involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would make two points. The reality is that if there is not additional provision in the budget, this issue in respect of councillors is not going to be dealt next year. I agree with bringing the Minister in. That would be the Minister of State responsible for this, Deputy Peter Burke. Bringing the author of the report and the Minister of State in is fine. That is the way to do it....