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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Reform Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is below target though.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Reform Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the National Reform Programme 2018. [45636/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Reform Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 1 December, the National Housing and Homelessness Coalition will be organising another demonstration on the ongoing housing and homelessness crisis which we have talked much about in this House. The national reform programme makes significant reference to the Government's plans to address the housing situation, and reiterates its targets under the Rebuilding Ireland plan. Does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the delegates for their presentations. As I was watching the proceedings on the monitor earlier, I caught their earlier contributions. It would take a lot on their part to convince me that there was a point in even looking at public private partnerships. Will they explain to me how under any circumstance it could be cheaper, faster and more efficient to go through what seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the case not just in Shanganagh, although that is an example, that we have a requirement to look at all the different models? I do not see the logic, especially when Ms Bryce has more or less admitted that the PPP has a much longer timeline and that is because it is a more complicated process. I do not see the advantage of it and even less so given the point made about competition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: None at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to comment briefly on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked earlier if any of the witnesses were involved in Part V housing and I was told they were not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland involved in Part V projects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason I ask is a concern prompted partly by the experience of Cherrywood and partly by recent comments by Mel Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds fears that the developers on many big private sites are in no hurry to build or may not have any interest in building. Therefore, we should take the Part V component as land upfront and build on it ourselves, which I would have thought would bring in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In fairness, I am asking the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should take the 10% closest to the site entrance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all on the same hymn sheet. I agree strongly with Dr. Hearne's narrative about the inefficiency, cost and viability of PPPs, or privatised forms of social housing delivery, being crazy from the point of view of trying to resolve the housing crisis. Instead, we need to move urgently towards the direct provision of public housing on public land. I am curious to know the delegates'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have to leave, unfortunately.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider ordering a stay on all sales of public land by local authorities or State agencies that could provide public and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47177/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the affordable housing scheme outlined in budget 2019 will be rolled out; the number of affordable homes that will be provided in 2019 as a result of this scheme; if it is within the power of an individual local authority to fund and provide its own scheme; if so, if there are regulations that the local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the referendums he is planning after the blasphemy referendum of 26 October 2018. [43912/18]

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will begin where Deputy Barry ended in appealing to people to take to the streets on 1 December in what is the follow-on demonstration from the 3 October mobilisation outside the Dáil. It is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Corry, who died yards from the entrance to the Dáil two years ago. Shamefully, the crisis that contributed to his death has continued to escalate. I...