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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...

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 price differential is not due to building materials such as bricks and mortar being different from those used for a house built in the suburbs at half the cost. Rather, Mr. Kenny is stating it is due to the conditions in which the build takes place.

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 completely agree with that. I tabled a parliamentary question on the matter some weeks ago. The reply details the average construction and all-in developmental costs over the past 12 months for one, two, three and four bedroom houses and apartments of various sizes and indicates that the average build cost for the houses is €140,000. I do not dispute the figures given by Mr. Kenny...

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 said seven months, not seven years.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On the voids, we have had Mary from the Department discussing this and we have been around the houses. My understanding is that the bulk of them are casual vacancies; they are just the ones that cost over €40,000 to refurbish because of the lack of cyclical maintenance. Am I to take it from Mr. Kenny's report that those 800 units are the re-lets that are coming out through that...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me ask the question in another way. In the 2017 output figures that the Department gave us at the start of this year, telling us about additions to the stock, there were figures for voids including figures for Dublin city. Is Mr. Kenny saying that all the voids Dublin City Council did last year are expensive casual re-lets and that there were no long-term voids among them?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if AHBs are charged development levies by local authorities for social housing new build units; and if so, the amount of levies paid into each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [39124/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is 80,000 families, not people.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We set up a housing and homelessness committee that sat for weeks.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is only embarrassing himself.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That Dáil Éireann:noting that:— Fine Gael have been in office for seven years and during that time homelessness has increased to unprecedented levels, house prices and rents have spiralled out of control, and tens of thousands of households are unable to access secure and affordable homes; — the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not personalised at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It might force the Government to change its course.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Policy after policy, budget after budget, the Minister has received more policy documents from us than he has had-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Never once has Sinn Féin voted down social housing in this city. Never once.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach cannot lie in the Chamber. Sinn Féin has not voted down social housing. Councillors from the Taoiseach's party have.