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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Will Ms Philbin please elaborate on what is at work here regarding this drop-off in the target? Can the factors behind this be explained? I understand they will be multifaceted across the board, but is there one particular factor across several schemes that has impacted the most?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Is the delivery of those now expected in quarter 1 of 2023?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I thank Ms Philbin. Turning to the issues of vacancy and dereliction, these questions are for the representatives of both councils. Starting with Cork, how many repair and lease units have been delivered in the last four years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: If three units are being delivered within the same property, then that is €180,000. The council's figure is actually five and it had 34 inquiries. Why were there 34 applications but only a follow-through of five units delivered across two developments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I would have thought the longer term lease was an advantage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I thank Mr. Geaney.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I have engaged with them. We will have recommendations from this. I assume from what Mr. Geaney has said that one of the recommendations will be that the €60,000 allocation needs to be upped in that context.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Galway City Council has not delivered a single unit under the repair and lease scheme, based on the figures on the Department's website. This is despite Galway being quite similar to Waterford, which has 50% of the national total of repair and lease units in the country. Why is this the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: The feedback from the council in Waterford, representatives of which have been before the committee, is they actively used the carrot-and-stick approach, with the CPO as the stick to get someone to come forward and then to have the repair and lease scheme be the carrot. Has Galway City Council done that with CPOs? How many properties has it attempted to acquire by CPO to try to bring out...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Yes. There are the fire regulations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: It is per unit as opposed to per house.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: CPO has worked for the council in that context. Why then is it not doing more of it? Even if the follow-through is not there, it would get people to come out of the woodwork, engage with the council and then the offer of the repair and lease scheme can be there. Is that something the council can take from the committee today that it will endeavour to do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Earlier I asked questions about vacant and derelict premises. There are other schemes such as the buy and renew scheme, and CPOs. I shall focus on discussing leasing as a method of delivery. Cork City Council has a 122 units in 2022 and 80 units in 2023. I cannot remember if those details were mentioned in its housing delivery action plan or in the documentation supplied to the committee....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I concur with that view. There is an ideological hang-up about leasing, which is unhelpful. We must welcome any scheme that grants security of tenure to a tenant for between 20 and 25 years versus somebody living in an unsecured HAP property. That is perhaps something we can debate as a committee in the context of our recommendations. I will take that a little bit further and focus on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: That is for a one-bedroom unit below €1,000 per month and a two-bedroom at €1,200 per month.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: We have to have a mix.