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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.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The council takes six months off the timescale when it uses emergency planning.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously only a portion of that is the build cost and another element is the rest of the development costs. That is very high. It is even higher than a lot of the Part Vs.

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 packaged in that unit cost?

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 ask Mr. Kenny to provide a breakdown of that figure of €351,000 because it could not all be build cost.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: How much?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Why is it so high? That is higher than private sector build costs for comparable units.

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 because they are multi-unit developments or additional costs due to height or is there some other reason?

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 apologise to the Chair for pressing this issue.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Although each project is different and none of the data therefor are particularly comparable, the data provided by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, NAMA and even the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government indicate that build costs for houses, rather than multi-unit apartments, are in the region of €140,000. Costs such as site servicing, land offsets and so on...