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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in 2016 and 2017 under the repair and lease and the buy and renew schemes, in tabular form; the expenditure in each year for each scheme; the number of homes acquired via the Housing Agency in 2017 and to date in 2018; and the cost of these houses in each of these years. [26696/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part V units delivered in each local authority area in 2017, in tabular form; and the average cost of those units in each area. [26697/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Berney for his presentation. It is important that the Oireachtas committee is having this debate, both in the session we had with Irish Water and the Department previously and this session with the unions. It is important we make it clear that it is not the business of this committee to get involved in the industrial relations issues and the negotiations that will take place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Berney. I have some supplementary questions. Leaving aside what Irish Water has or has not proposed, knowing the water services sector as Mr. Berney does, what does he think will be the impact of removing 1,000 full-time equivalent staff by 2021? Do the unions have a view on the future reconfiguration of the utility and Irish Water moving towards becoming a non-commercial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked about the idea of Irish Water being a non-commercial semi-State body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the submissions they sent in earlier and for appearing before the joint committee today. A number of Deputies on the committee had indicated to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, when he brought the heads of the Bill before us, that we were mindful to support and to assist him in trying to get the legislation through before the end of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have no regulations for short-term letting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no proposed legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have suggestions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not wish to pick a fight but none of those is in our committee recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will send Mr. O'Brien our report, which is different from what he has mentioned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of points for Ms McCormick and Mr. O'Brien. I am genuinely not anti-landlord. I am probably one of the few Deputies living in the private rental sector who likes living there. In most of the debates here and in most of my public commentary, we acknowledge that the vast majority of landlords are compliant and provide a good service. We want to see a restructured private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to finish because this is an important engagement, and we would like to see more of it. The reason we are supportive of this in principle is that if one looks at what is happening with the rent index, it is clear that a very large number of landlords are either availing of exemptions, correctly or incorrectly, or breaking the rules, and it cannot be left to tenants, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to make a factual correction. The RTB index is based on all rents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us be clear. The RTB index-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is very important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The RTB index is based on all rents and all registered tenancies. What the Residential Tenancies Board representatives told us the last day was that existing rents are actually underestimated. In my case, my tenancy was registered in 2010, but I have had two rent reviews since then. The RTB index includes my rent from 2010. Therefore, the index is a slight underestimation and daft.ie has...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will share time with Deputies Tóibín and Adams. I warmly welcome the People Before Profit motion, which we are enthusiastically supporting. I am running out of adjectives to describe the Minister's speeches to the House. I do not say that to be in any way personal. The gap between what the Minister is telling us week in and week out and the reality we are all...