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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to explain what he has just said about 2020 and 2021.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am part of the National Homeless & Housing Coalition which is involved in organising the protest next Wednesday which I hope will see a large turnout of people who are fed up with this housing crisis and the way it is affecting them. I was involved in the set-up of that coalition about three years ago. It arose from absolute frustration at the way in which the crisis was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not predicting any of that. Will the Minister please answer the questions I asked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about what was said about housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is not answering the question. Was it a mistake?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is talking down the clock.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked whether it was a mistake that NAMA flogged off all the property.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Minister whether it was a mistake for NAMA to flog off all the property.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough. I want to ask another question. Will the Minister outline the attitude of the Government to building council housing estates? I just mention in passing that Mr. Brendan Kenny of Dublin City Council said that there was no doubt that it was quicker to build just council estates than to have to do this mix that the Minister insists on, because one had to get the money from one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He did say quicker.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the latest figures, there were 1,151 units built by the local authorities and approved housing bodies, AHBs, at the end of the second quarter and 1,181 acquisitions. In terms of build, the proportion of the output that is build, as against housing assistance payment, HAPs, rental allowance scheme, RAS, and leasing, is about 10%. Is that not a fairly miserable output in terms of direct...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not much consolation for the people who find themselves in that difficult position. The Minister should not get me wrong. If HAP arrangements are found or if the options are provided when I have desperate people coming into my clinics, I ask them to seriously consider them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Whether they should take a HAP arrangement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a choice they have to make. They are thinking of their family.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If a family has been on a housing list for 15 years and is in a hub, and they are not willing to put themselves in a precarious position again, they have an entitlement to say it is not good enough. I do not encourage that as people must make those personal decisions that have an affect on their families. It is insulting to tell them that if they make a decision not to put themselves...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That debate will continue but as long as we rely on HAP, we will have problems. My next question relates to my earlier contribution. I will outline a concrete example, which is important. It relates to Cherrywood. That development could solve the housing crisis in the greater Dún Laoghaire area. At the weekend we had evidence it would not be able to do that because of the approach...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This was in the newspapers on Saturday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine, although it was in the newspapers on Saturday, so it is in the public domain. The company bought the Cherrywood land from NAMA at a low price and now it is being flogged, with no houses built. The company is walking away with a fortune and no houses have been built. Does it bother the Minister that land acquired from the State is being flipped and the company will walk away with a...