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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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman for the way she has chaired the meeting today and also for giving up her own time to allow us to ask additional questions. I appreciate it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why only 529 properties out of 3,967 offered to the Housing Agency for purchase have been acquired to date; and the reason the vacant homes strategy published over the summer contains no targets or new funding allocations to ensure the maximum return to the housing stock of vacant homes across the State. [39020/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rebuilding Ireland promised the delivery of 1,600 homes over a number of years through the Housing Agency's €70 million fund. It was a good initiative which Sinn Féin welcomed at the time, although we felt it was under funded. Of the 3,967 properties offered to the Housing Agency for purchase under this fund, only 529 have actually been formally purchased which is a success rate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. There are two issues. One is the length of time it is taking to purchase these properties and get them tenanted and the other is the very significant number of properties for which bids have not been made. I did not table this question in order for the Minister to outline how the scheme works. I understand that very well and the Minister has just...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that this process takes time and that multiple agencies are involved. However, with a 15% purchase rate to date and a 30% bid rate, it seems the Department will not meet the target of 1,600 homes by 2020, although I hope it does. If Sinn Féin can assist in any way with any local authority, we will do so. Where local authorities are not expressing an interest, is the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work on assisting credit unions to provide lending for the purposes of building social housing; and the reason, almost a year after the approval of such lending, no progress has been made to date on this matter. [39017/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I completely understand it is not the Department's responsibility to create the SPVs, whether for the approved housing bodies to borrow or the credit unions to lend. However, what we are hearing from both of those sectors is they do not feel they are getting enough assistance from the Department of Finance, with its expertise in this area, and possibly from the Minister of State's Department...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with South Dublin County Council to ensure that the residential development at Kilcarbery-Grange includes cost rental and affordable purchase homes in addition to social housing; and if a similar funding model to that approved for St. Michael's Estate in Dublin city will be explored to ensure that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is aware that the Kilcarbery-Grange proposal from South Dublin County Council is a significant development and one that could do much to ease housing need, not just in Clondalkin and Lucan in my constituency, but across the county. The difficulty that many elected members on South Dublin County Council have is that, while there is be a proposed 30% social housing component in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply, but there is a difficulty. The majority of elected members have expressed a concern that the 70% of houses to be sold on the open market will not be at affordable prices. In fact, there is no contractual obligation in the draft agreement between the council and the preferred developer to provide any price for those. Given the sale prices being attained...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have seen indicative prices from the lead agency. They show that none of the 70% would be affordable to single-income households and only the smallest of the one-bedroom and two-bedroom units may be affordable to couples without children under the Government's affordable lending criteria. I have written to the Minister on behalf of five Deputies from five political parties...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce a State-wide affordable housing scheme for local authorities; and the reason the €75 million allocated for O Cualann type affordable housing developments has not been made available to local authorities. [39021/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's attempt to secure the reclassification of AHBs as off-Government balance sheet. [39018/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financing arrangements envisioned in the delivery of social, affordable and market priced housing on the first eight sites to be developed by the Land Development Agency. [39019/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Future of Council Housing: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Professor Norris and Dr. Hayden for attending and for producing the report. The report is an important piece of research and that is one of the reasons we invited them here. It was regrettable, through no fault of the authors, that some of the media coverage at the time of report's launch did not give a true sense of the recommendations or the depth of the report. I hope we can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the local authority officials for coming in. I appreciate how busy they all are. My questions are different. Many of us are trying to tease through with the Department, whose officials will appear tomorrow, how we can fix some of the difficulties in the system to increase or speed up the output or remove logjams that many of us believe are in the way of the delivery of houses. My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is Ms Carr saying the council has lost half of the HAP tenancies over that period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that a reduction in the total development time or just the construction time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the comparable timeline for Part 8s in Dublin City Council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Part 8s take six months from start to finish.