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Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody doubts the work of the voluntary sector or the staff in councils or the Minister's own Department. I am simply saying that it is exactly the trends that matter. The overall trend is that the numbers of adults, children and families who are experiencing homelessness are up. The Minister is trying to put a positive spin on it to say that in Dublin for two months in a row the number of...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans in conjunction with local authorities and other bodies to deliver the agreed number of social and affordable homes in strategic development zones, SDZs, such as at Poolbeg and Clonburris and land initiatives such as O'Devaney Gardens and the Grange. [45349/17]

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This question is very straightforward. There has been very good co-operation between the Department officials, Dublin City Council, local councillors and the local community with regard to the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ. This resulted in an increase in the total amount of social and affordable housing to be made available. I welcome that and I also welcome the work of the...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The key issue here is the 550 affordable homes to be made available on the Poolbeg site because this is not public land. It is privately owned land that is currently in the hands of the receiver. The question arises as to how we ensure genuinely affordable homes. I remind the House of the price ranges I spoke of earlier of houses between €170,000 and €280,000. This would...

Other Questions: Regeneration Projects Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a project (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be funded directly through Exchequer revenue rather than a private sector-led land initiative. [45348/17]

Other Questions: Regeneration Projects Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State knows Sinn Féin's strong concerns about the funding model that is being used for the land initiatives at O'Devaney Gardens and St. Michael's Estate. Given the long history of failed and collapsed regeneration projects at this location and in light of the very active involvement of the local community, will the Minister of State not consider taking this out of the...

Other Questions: Regeneration Projects Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important to remember that the origin of these schemes does not come from the councils but from a time when there was no central government funding available for any kind of scheme, whether mono-tenure or mixed. The difficulty with the funding model the Government is essentially imposing on the local authorities is, first, it does not allow the right quantity of social, affordable...

Other Questions: Regeneration Projects Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they can afford the properties.

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to roll out the national quality standards framework office inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; if all emergency accommodation, including commercial hotels and bed and breakfast establishments, will be covered by this; and if the office inspectorate will be fully independent of his...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the previous Question Time taken by the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, I asked him to consider the creation of an independent inspection regime for emergency accommodation. He helpfully pointed me in the direction of the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, which is doing some work on a quality standards framework. I met the executive for a very detailed meeting and I was quite impressed...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To comment on today's homelessness figures, it is Orwellian in the extreme to suggest that there has been progress. The Minister is right the number of families in emergency accommodation in Dublin has fallen by a total of eight but the number of children in emergency accommodation in Dublin has increased by 37. That is not progress. The total number of adults, children and families across...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Those trends are going up. There are more adults and children now homeless.

Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I seek a clarification on the circular. I welcome the Minister's comments, particularly those in response to the committee's report. There is something I am not clear about in the circular. I refer to the conditions outlined for an individual applying for a change of use for short-term letting in an existing single apartment. Does the circular imply that all such persons in such...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: All the three categories of homelessness - adults, child and family - are up on the previous month. The Minister should tell the truth.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The truth is that all three categories are up.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The September figures for all three categories are up on August.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the target number of affordable units (details supplied) to be delivered in 2018 via the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, and the forthcoming affordable housing scheme. [45427/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This question centres on the need for affordable housing. There seems to be confusion about what we mean. Affordable housing means housing that is available to purchase for families on gross incomes of between €45,000 and €75,000. That means houses for sale at somewhere between €173,000 and €288,000, including deposits. How many units in that price bracket will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the information, none of which, of course, answered the question, which asks for the number of units that would be within that affordable bracket. In fact, when the Minister talks about the bands identified by me, he did not use the bands I just read out - €173,000 to €288,000 - but, rather, the bands he provided in a reply to a parliamentary question I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is real confusion here. Housing units at €320,000, €310,000 or €300,000 are not affordable either in or outside of Dublin. I say that because it is only possible to borrow 3.5 times gross household income under the Central Bank's mortgage lending rules. The people who need affordable housing are on incomes of between €45,000 and €75,000. The band...