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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want to cut across the Minister, but he is talking about expensive re-lets. A property that has been tenanted by the same family for 40 years or more may have had very little work done on it over its lifecycle. The cost of re-letting such a property is expensive because of the need for rewiring, reinsulation, new windows and new kitchens, etc. It costs way more. That work can be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is what I am saying. I get that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the voids programme was first announced, it was about long-term vacant properties in the first instance. I am not challenging what the Minister is doing, but I am saying I think this needs to be spelled out very clearly in the figures so that people are absolutely clear on whether something is an expensive re-let, rather than a 2:1 or a property that has been brought back into use after...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are added into the overall target, however.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister give the committee the figures for last year and this year? I think it would be more transparent if the Minister were to break the voids down so that we know which categories they fall into.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: In terms of voids, the problem with the way the figures are being presented - I was one of those who asked for that figure to be removed, so I welcome that the Minister did that - is that, when the voids programme was originally introduced, it was concerned with bringing units that were effectively not part of the housing stock back into it. Regardless of whether they were included in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Should we proceed Vote by Vote?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the presentation. The second page of the housing Vote contains a long table showing key outputs and public service activities. I seek clarity on it. I am clear on the first three rows. There are then three rows as follows: total number of social housing units to secure through social housing capital programmes; to secure through all build programmes; and to secure...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is on the second page of the housing Vote. It is the fourth table outlining key outputs and public service activities. It is the long one. I have no query about the first three rows. Will the Minister explain the differences between the next three rows? There is a target of 560 voids in 2018. That brings us back to the thorny subject of when a void is really a void and just an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2017 Order: Motion (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can the Minister of State give us any updated information on the number of applications received by the board under the new strategic housing development legislation? At what stage are they applications? When the legislation was going through, we raised the question of why consideration had not been given to imposing statutory timelines on An Bord Pleanála for all planning decisions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2017 Order: Motion (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be great to have it in writing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2017 Order: Motion (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the ratio between student bed spaces and non-student accommodation units?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2017 Order: Motion (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2017 Order: Motion (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That last point is important. In an effort to fast-track the larger developments, we do not want small builders who build 20, 40 or 80 units to experience much longer delays. If there was a way to track and monitor that, it would be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2017 Order: Motion (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: During the consideration of the legislation we got a very useful spreadsheet with the 18 developments that were being assessed at that stage. It would be helpful if we got a similar spreadsheet, even on a six-monthly basis, of the kind of information the Minister of State has shown but presented as a flow chart. The smaller number of applications that got through the pre-application process...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2017 Order: Motion (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Some of us did not support the legislation and our argument was because the two areas that were taking the longest were the pre-planning and the request for information periods. If we saw similar timelines for this, it would give us a sense of whether it is working the way the Minister of State hoped, or not.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 21 March 2018, the name, location and intended future use of the direct provision centre that was closed down earlier in 2018 leading to persons being transferred to other centres. [14151/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the basis on which the target of 500 Part V units was set for 2018; and the details of the targets by each local authority area. [14117/18]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: Céim an Choiste
Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not think we will be here for two hours.