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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. The problem is that there are two ways of addressing this issue. The first is that houses are built and sold at cost price and, in that scenario, the price can be determined at the outset. The alternative is to take a market price at a discount, but that discount must be repaid. That second model is of shared equity, as the Minister has just mentioned. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concern is that the Minister is evading the question. I am not talking about delivery streams, I am talking about the fundamental principle of what constitutes affordability. There is a universally accepted distinction in the industry between building homes and selling them at the cost of building them, and thereby getting genuine affordability, or allowing the market to dictate a price...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: What the Minister has said is not true. He should read the proposal.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nor will Sinn Féin.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Which model of delivery is the Government going to pursue?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if shared equity will be considered in his approach to affordable housing; and if the purchase prices he has quoted recently in the media are inclusive or exclusive of the shared equity stake to be acquired by the State. [17909/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will announce the detail of his affordable housing scheme in September, I will not ask him to reveal the detail of it. I have a concern that he seems to have two different and competing definitions of what constitutes affordable housing. During the election campaign he correctly called for affordable homes to be delivered at a cost of €250,000 or less, a position...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to put in place to address the rent arrears debt burden arising from tenants falling behind in their rent due to Covid-19 temporary lay-offs. [17908/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will be aware, a significant number of renters have lost income or jobs as a result of Covid-19 restrictions. We are all concerned about the impact of what we are calling the rent arrears debt burden on both tenants and the rental sector overall. Will the Minister outline if he has received the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, research report his Department...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. Sinn Féin conducted an online survey of renters recently and more than 1,00 renters replied with a good geographical age and income spread. While the survey does not claim to be scientifically representative, it gives us an insight. Some 60% of respondents said they had lost income due to Covid-19 and a significant number, almost 70%, believed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his constructive reply and I absolutely share his concern about the low level of uptake of the rent supplement. That is because the previous and current Ministers with responsibility for social protection and the Department are not doing enough to promote that payment. I echo the Minister's call for people to avail of it. If one looks at the latest figures from the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reverse the blanket ban on the drawdown of Rebuilding Ireland home loans for applicants with approval in principle who are on the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will revert to the advice provided by his Department to local authorities on 21 May 2020 to provide for case-by-case assessments of all...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if €100 million in funding was cut from the capital budget of Irish Water in 2020; and the impact this cut has had on wastewater treatment plant upgrade deadlines and in turn on the EU Commission action against the State for breaches of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [17629/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the lack of effectiveness and the weight of delays with the local infrastructure housing activation fund. [17630/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to use the planning powers as set out in the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2015 to ban co-living. [17632/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce a new planning offence and fine for short-term letting platforms and estate agents that advertise short-term lets which are not compliant with the planning permission requirements of the existing short-term letting regulations. [17631/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of providing a Traveller-specific accommodation unit as funded by the local authority Traveller accommodation programme in 2019. [17714/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the guidance provided under public health grounds for staff working in family hubs and in emergency homeless accommodation on the wearing of face masks [17735/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government commits to: "Strengthen the regulatory and enforcement mechanisms with regard to short-term lettings." As I am sure the Taoiseach will know, the vast majority of short-term lets in the State are not compliant with the Government's regulations and the level of enforcement from local authorities is very low. Will he commit in the legislative programme to...