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- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (26 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: 59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if new solid fuel regulations are due to be introduced on 31 October 2022. [53747/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the progress that has been made to date on the preparation of a remediation scheme for apartments with defects, and specifically, in relation to payment for works already carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53037/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: I am not on the housing committee but I wanted to take advantage of meeting old colleagues, managers and executives. I appreciate their time. I have a few preliminary questions for the chief executive. How many people are on the social housing list in south Dublin at present?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: The bulk of people on the housing list are single applicants. When Mr. Ward says single households, that is not single people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: It is single people. What proportion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: Does Mr. Ward know the ratio of apartments to traditional houses in the mix of social housing provision to date. I thank the witnesses for the figures for 2021 and anticipated for 2022. I will focus entirely on South Dublin County Council. I am not deliberately excluding anyone. I hope the witnesses understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: If I am asking Fingal County Council a question, something has gone radically wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: How many single applicants are in receipt of HAP?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: In the breakdown laid out in the first row of SDCC's table relating to social housing delivery for the period 2017-21, were the 1,774 that were completed all SDCC builds or do they include Part V completions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: So that is the round total for SDCC, AHBs and everything that was either built or acquired. Have we a figure for what SDCC did directly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: So it is 50% - two times 25%. Local authorities do not get the kind of money for maintenance that AHBs get for new builds. Is that correct? A figure for maintenance is built into the AHB piece or is it contained in the rent that is paid? In the private market it would be called a sinking fund. Has the traditional model been for AHBs to receive some funding to continue maintenance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: The total cost of ongoing maintenance then falls on AHBs and local authorities. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: This will not make sense to many colleagues here. Do the figures for completions this year include sites where there was an issue with the construction company and have gone out to tender before construction will start again or are they pushed into 2023?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: The chief executive was very good to come back to me on the Ardstone development at Two Oaks in Scholarstown where 110 duplexes and in the region of 500 build-to-rent apartments,. There will be a proportion of social housing involved. My first question is when it might be anticipated that the first new tenants move in? Will it be before the end of this year or are we looking at 2023? ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: I have one final-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: That is grant. I thank the Acting Chair for allowing me the time. I might wait.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: Would some of those households comprise more than one family?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
John Lahart: Why is it that more than 50% are single? I am coming to Fingal County Council with a question. Is that also the experience in Fingal?