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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Cork City Council got an additional ten units into its stock on the back of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: If we have time, I would like to tease that out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I will take up where I left off on the last round of questions. I compliment Cork City Council on the right-sizing approach that the council has taken to deliver on developments. It is particularly welcome that the council has tried to include those in private stock, and not only the councils own stock. For the benefit of the committee, and for the record, so it can be shared with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Will Mr. Geaney talk me through it? If, for example, I am the owner of a property, I am 60 years of age and I am looking to get one of these properties on the Blackrock Road. Will Mr. Geaney talk the committee through what happens there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: That would be useful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: And the council then gives them a secure tenancy for the rest of their days?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: That is based on their income?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Does it also depend on their age?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: How does the council select those ten? Was the council oversubscribed for this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Okay. I have to compliment the council. It is very interesting how this has been delivered. There is a 71-unit development in Waterford city that is specifically geared for older persons. This is what I am trying to tease out with my council. What percentage of that development should be made available for those who have private homes versus right-sizing within their own stock, and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: What is the LDA delivering? Are they the units that are being delivered in Cork County? I apologise if I offended anyone by not knowing the boundary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: The expected delivery timeline-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: That is a mischaracterisation. The officials clearly said councils would have to make up the shortfall. I will be very surprised if the witnesses from the councils say otherwise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: It would be useful in the context of those future deliberations that the other local authorities that are not here are invited to make comment on the same. If there are examples like that, we need to know about them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Just on the CPOs which is something we have discussed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I thank our guests from both local authorities for attending. My first questions, relating to activating vacant properties, are for Mr. Curran and Mr. Keegan. How many units has their council delivered under the buy-and-renew scheme to date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: What about Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown?