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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the rental cost remittance for the board of management of a school (details supplied) was not paid in July, August and September 2019; when the remittance will be paid; and if it will be ensured that future remittances from October 2019 will be paid on time. [41397/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I acknowledge the significant body of research NESC and the ESRI have been doing on land and housing. The committee has been paying close attention to it. As a small aside, as new research papers are produced it is always welcome if they are sent directly to the committee secretariat to circulate to us in case we miss some of the publication...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a similar gap between the market value of brownfield land versus residential land? Does Dr. O'Connell have a concern about the width of the gap and whether it is widening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is based on existing-use value rather than agricultural value.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: To pick up on the issue of 40% social and affordable versus 60% open market, one of the concerning things for many of us is that social and affordable housing is not even mentioned in the heads of the Bill. While the heads of the Bill say that the LDA must have regard to Government policy, it has no statutory requirement to deliver social and affordable housing. Because it is being set up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the combination of active land management and residential development the norm? Is there a mixed picture internationally? Do our guests have views on the location of both of those things in the same agency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do our guests have any idea as to how it could be addressed?

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last year Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil promised this House a housing budget. The Minister for Finance said affordable housing was one of his priorities, while Deputy Micheál Martin claimed he had secured additional investment in affordable housing and fast-tracked delivery of social housing. A year on how has that budget worked out? The level of homelessness has risen for children,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 146. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she plans to cut the funding for a charity (details supplied); the amount of funding the project receives; the reason for the cut; if similar cuts and or restructuring of similar projects is taking place elsewhere; if she will review the decision with a view to continuing funding either through the schools completion programme or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (8 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers who have been returned from Ireland to Zimbabwe in each of the years 2016 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40836/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies that have tier 1 certified body status; the number given tier 1 certified body status in the past year; and the number awarded certified body status in the past year (details supplied). [40555/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (8 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has Part V targets for 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if so, the details of the targets for each of the years referenced. [40704/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (8 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will include an ethnic identifier in the pathway accommodation and support system to include Travellers. [40713/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is hugely significant legislation, whatever an individual's view of it may be. In some respects, it is on a par with the National Asset Management Agency Act back in 2009, though it is very different legislation and its intention is positive. We are in the process of scrutinising an agency which, if it does what Government policy wants it to do, will hold assets equal to or even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are soft on guests, giving a break. Wait until they get in front of the Committee on Public Accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important that the committee is clear on two key elements of why the Bill is structured like this. It is structured as a commercial, independent entity with 60% of the units to be sale on the open market, because that is the only way one can get it off-balance sheet. We just need to be clear about that. We are talking about an investment over 20 years of between €40 billion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will just make this point, please, Chairman. A piece of land has different values depending on what one does with it. If it has 100% social, it has value: A, if it is 20% social it has value: B. What is hidden in the joint venture model is the ability of a developer, who is one's partner and is bringing the finance, to extract additional value from the land, by pricing it in to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that but this is such important legislation and this is my final point. We were told last week by the Minister that it would be reckless for the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to lose oversight of housing developments of €6 million. What we have been told today, and people listening need to understand, is that we will be handing over €1.25...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked about this already, but I cannot remember the answer. When does the Government expect to publish the Bill?