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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have a problem with the numbers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We regularly have a problem with numbers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: All we are asking is for the Minister to tell us the prices and the numbers. It is very simple.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not think €300,000 is affordable.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme for genuinely affordable rental and purchase housing in 2018; and the funding allocated and targets for units to be delivered. [52319/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Thousands of working families and individuals are caught in an affordability trap whereby they can afford neither to rent nor to purchase a home. I have asked on a number of occasions for the Government to outline its definitions of affordable rental and affordable purchase; its targets in this regard for 2018; and the timeline for introducing an affordable housing scheme. Despite all the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister's answer is truly remarkable. While I know that he has only been in office for six months, I am really beginning to question whether or not he understands the extent of this particular issue and the extent of the pressures that people are under. According to every indicator, rents and house prices are increasing quarter on quarter and year on year. We are talking about the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: What we now know, then, is that 300 affordable homes will possibly be available next year and a further 300 possibly available the year after.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is remarkable. Fine Gael has been in government for a year and a half. It signed a programme for Government 18 months ago that promised a cost-rental and an affordable housing scheme. I have no idea what the Minister means when he says that the LIHAF developments will include affordability. The last time he answered that question he told us that in Dublin, for example, that could...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of real social houses delivered to date in 2017 by scheme including council new build, council acquisition, council Part V, council returned void, AHB new build, AHB acquisition, AHB part V, and AHB returned void. [52163/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the possible redesignation of approved housing bodies by EUROSTAT and the CSO; the contingency plans in place to deal with this in order to meet his social housing targets; and his further plans to assist approved housing bodies secure land in order to meet their social housing targets as per Rebuilding Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's inquiry into allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal. [52161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, if he will reconcile the data on voids contained therein and in the 2016 NOAC report; and if an assurance will be provided that there is no double counting of regular voids and long term voids in his annual social housing output figures for 2014 to 2017. [52165/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the findings of the 2013 departmental review into shared ownership schemes; the reason the report was never published; the actions he took following the report; and the advice that is being given to councils dealing with distressed shared ownership mortgages. [52164/17]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: With regard to subhead A3, there is a proposed increased to €356 million. How many units will that deliver by the end of this year? There is a table in the second briefing note relating to local authority capital expenditure. How many units has the €177 million indicated in the table delivered to date? How many units has the €107 million billed delivered to date? A...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked about repossessions which are referred to in the third column of the table. It is the first time I have seen the term used. What is the category?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister talking about the voids but calling them repossessions?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the fine detail on those in the social housing construction pipeline or if not, can we get the same level of detail so that we know exactly what they are?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the table if we take the regenerations out of the existing targets my understanding, based on an announcement from earlier this year, is that there will be approximately 4,300 new units between acquisitions and builds for the year. I presume repossessions are in there somewhere. The Minister is saying, however, that by the end of September 1,300 of those were delivered. Is he saying now...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Cowan raised this the last day we met. None of us is complaining about additional spend and if that is producing additional units it is very welcome. Many of us want to know how many units under each of the headings have been completed by now and are in the process of being tenanted. If the Minister cannot provide that information today, could he do so as soon as he is in a position...