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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: Can the Minister comment on the framework agreements for procurement?

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 wish to ask a practical question. This is merely a factual query. If a local authority wishes to have a tender arrangement with say, maintenance contractors, it puts out a general call, a bunch of applicants come in and it makes an agreement with three contractors, each of which has a contract for three years or five years. The authority hands out the jobs as they come. Is the Minister...

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: Sure.

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: All I would ask the Minister to do, because these are positive developments, is to apply exactly the same framework agreement on a regional basis for the new builds. For example, there would be one for Dublin and one for the south west. That would mean that not every individual job for an infill development of ten, 20 or 50 houses would have to go out to tender. One could have the same...

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: What was the rationale for fixing on the 10% for the large sites?

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: These sites are not subject to Part 5 because they are publicly owned. The Minister is saying that they are publicly developed.

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: This is my final comment, a Chathaoirligh-----

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: This is a factual question. A number of the local authorities as well as Mr. Brendan Kenny from Dublin City Council have said that past 2021, if they meet all of the social housing output targets, land is going to become a real issue for them. Some local authorities are in a better position than others. My concern is that if we max out all the land on the existing social housing output...

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: It is in the public domain.

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: With the greatest of respect, we must scrutinise this stuff.

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: We are not naming people. These organisations are in receipt of taxpayers' money. Censoring members of the committee is not what we are in the business of doing, which is what the Senator proposes.

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...