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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: The local authorities are identifying the sites.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: How many homes have been completed to date on LDA land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: When the agency was set up in 2018 it was forecast that 150,000 homes would be delivered by 2030. The LDA opening statement outlined that it had 40 sites with 21,000 homes at various stages. It stated that the LDA hoped to have a pipeline of 5,000 homes per year up to 2030, which is 30,000 on top of what have been developed already. Did he say that was 2,000 or 4,000 developed already?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Based on what has been delivered to date and what is set out with the LDA target of 5,000 per year, that would bring it to 32,000. Is that correct? Those are the figures I have here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: The Government said the LDA would deliver 150,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I know everything is easy until you go to do it. Mr. Coleman has outlined very well some of the barriers, as has the Housing Agency. On financing, there is the €3.25 billion to be made up to get to where the LDA is going with this. I have three areas of curiosity there. I am sure these are being explored but I would like to understand what the problems are with them. The ECB is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I am asking if the LDA has done so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: The LDA only has enough cash for this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: It is 12 months' capital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: It is a rolling pipeline. I understand that. I wish to ask Mr. Whelan of the Housing Agency about financing which is one of the big barriers to housing availability. This relates to the ECB, the pillar banks and what is on deposit. The credit unions have a lot of money on deposit. Is the Housing Agency aware of any discussions with those bodies? Mr. Coleman has clarified there have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: What about the money on deposit and State saving schemes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Is the Housing Agency raising that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Is the agency raising or suggesting this in its discussions with the Government? Obviously, everybody is in the same game trying to produce houses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Whelan. This question is for Mr. Coleman. On the servicing of land, there is a problem getting finished estates connected to Irish Water. There is also a problem in the ESB because it got rid of a lot of its workers and brought in contractors over the past ten to 15 years. It has now discovered it cannot get the contractors to do the work. At one stage, if you wanted to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Could we say lack of infrastructure is holding up projects at this point?

Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome our guests in the Gallery. I know that some of them have spoken out publicly about this. Sometimes, that is not very easy to do. I welcome the fact that they are here. Hopefully, with their support and that of others we can get legislation in place. I hope it is this Bill. I hope we do not have to wait for 12 months or two years or any longer, because this is overdue. I thank...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 20. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware that it has been reported that the Air Corps is to end 24-hour operations and reduce its service to an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., five-day week from June 2025, as a crisis in air traffic control has reached a critical point; and if he will ensure that this will not be the case and that operations will be remaining in place 24-7 yearly....

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the witnesses - Dr. Devine, Professor Maguire and Professor Murphy - for their presentations and the papers they submitted, which we received and read. I want to focus on the speech given yesterday by the Minister of State for European affairs and defence, Deputy Thomas Byrne. He was speaking at an event hosted by the Institute of International and European Affairs. At the...