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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has plans to issue guidance to local authorities on the issue of removing civic honours previously bestowed under section 74 of the Local Government Act 2001, or if his Department has plans to legislate to expressly grant the right to remove a civic honour; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I also want to mark the anniversary of Private Seán Rooney. I think all of our thoughts are with the families of peacekeepers who are separated from their loved ones this Christmas. The drugs task force co-ordinator position in Finglas and Cabra has been a funded post for many decades. A vacancy has arisen because the co-ordinator passed away. The recruitment process is under...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome everybody. We have frequent interaction on the housing committee so I have an opportunity there to talk about delivery. I thank the witnesses for some of the answers that we have got in that regard. The Committee of Public Accounts gives us an opportunity to look back at historic spending and it is always concerned about making recommendations about how we can do that better...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Absolutely. The difficulty is that Mr. Jordan is pre-empting my line of questioning. I was leading the witness in a direction. It was not actioned until 2020 or 2021.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: No, it is about the State failing to deliver public housing for any significant period between 2010 and 2020. There is no doubt, as Deputy Ó Cathasaigh said, that we started that decade with serious financial issues. Yet, at some point during that ten-year period you would have to say that there was a tipping point that I am trying to identify. In the ten-year period during which the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: In which year did the Housing Agency identify that there was not sufficient capital?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I know. Therefore, insufficient capital was being provided to local authorities to deliver. Is it the case that the Housing Agency understood that in 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The availability of capital was a key blockage and a number of people have said it. Those were real factors on the ground that were preventing delivery. How were those messages sent up through the system from the local authorities, through the Housing Agency and into the Department? Mr. Jordan mentioned the response to demand, but the housing emergency started to emerge very quickly in...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Graham, I do not wish to revisit that. I know Housing for All and inasmuch as delivery overseen by Ms Timmons and Ms Stapleton is happening, I am not questioning that. I want us to look back to see how we stop this happening again. A demographic bulge was coming at us; that was clear. Sites were available but key tools were needed, capital being one of them. The second one mentioned...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: There is no doubt but that the two sovereign funds we are establishing on foot of the budget will go a long way to ensuring we have multi-annual funding even in a cyclical downturn. I accept all that. Yet, within the Department itself, there is the Housing Agency and there are housing authorities in the local authorities. The Department funds the local authorities. Was there sufficient...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: There are many people in the Department of housing who did that for a decade.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I have cut Mr. Doyle off a number of times when he raised the issue of delivery. I have to acknowledge that three years ago, when I first sat before the committee, there were multiple housing sites in my area that had huge potential. Almost every site in my constituency is now under development. There are almost 2,200 units in design and will hopefully now move into construction. There is...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: There is no doubt about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Regardless of that-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Regardless of that, this was over a ten-year period and the State was still going to be here ten years later. The population was only increasing and it was only going to be more expensive to house those people ten years later than it was in that period. It is a long-term issue for the State. I am not talking about any one Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The reality was that there was no overhang, there was no oversupply and we should have kept building houses.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes, absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: There never was in Dublin.