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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I appreciate that. My time is up. I might get a chance to speak in the third round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: To follow on, it is right. The opportunity with the private residential sector, PRS, not activating its existing planning permissions is there. The impediment, as I see it, is that X + Y is equalling market rent and not that X + Y is equalling 25% discount on market rent. I understand the Land Development Agency is doing work on the possibility of some form of subsidy fitting in there so...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: And that would be particularly outside Dublin too. Regional cities, Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Waterford.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: To tease that out, as well as cost rental, Mr. O'Reilly mentioned going out and there being 44 expressions of interest but only one following through. Was it an issue of time when it went out on that or why was there such a low conversion rate? That is the key to understanding. I do not know whether Mr. O'Reilly has an answer for that but what did they say to explain why 44 said initially...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: That is what we are here for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: It is a change from 40% to 60% at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Starting with Mr. Keegan, nobody wants to deliver affordable homes that are out of people's reach. As a result, we have teased out one of the options regarding cost-rental and a potential subsidy that could reduce the rent levels being discussed in this context. On affordable purchase, what would Mr. Keegan suggest we could do to make these houses more affordable? There is, of course, cost...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Mr. Keegan commented in this regard after knowing this €150,000 would be available. What more, therefore, can we do over and above this measure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: It is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: There are many reasons why we should be doing that. I know Mr. Keegan acknowledges this point. This is one of the reasons the Government introduced the Croí Cónaithe cities fund. I assume Mr. Keegan supports this scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: It has been ridiculed by some in the Opposition as being a direct subsidy, but the reality is that it is there to bring about viability and purchases of apartments. Does Mr. Keegan support this scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I thank Mr. Keegan. Moving to the witnesses from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, my colleague, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, asked me to inquire about plans to deliver units for those with disabilities, either physical or intellectual. Are there potential pockets in this regard concerning infill that can be targeted in the context of delivery? In the housing action plan for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: What mechanism was used to deliver that facility?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I am sure my colleague will continue to liaise with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on that. I have a question for both local authorities on Part V delivery. What would the average timeline be for the time that it takes to approve their Part V units from the initial entry from the developer side to being approved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: It does, of course. That is why I asked for the average.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: What would be a typical timeframe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: They notify the council at that point, but how about the next stage of the process-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: -----from the negotiation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I understand that.