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Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department and the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, have a difficulty with numbers. The Minister does not now how many people will sleep in emergency accommodation tonight nor how many new builds are under construction. There are not 10,000 social housing units in the pipeline. I have examined the figures very carefully. In my...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To summarise, the Minister's answer to my question is that he does not know, despite the fact that he has been working on the scheme for a year. A circular issued by the Department in August stated that a minimum of 40% of the homes to be delivered would be available at 10% less than the average market cost, though in Dún Laoghaire that would be no guarantee of affordability. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have read the circulars.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister should read his own departmental circulars. In the August circular, it stated that affordable homes would be delivered and that a minimum of 40% would be available at prices 10% below the average cost in the market. That suggests it was a target but the October circular states that it may not always be possible to deliver 40% of new homes under the LIHAF bids at prices 10%...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: An answer would be nice. It would make a change.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister pull funding if he does not like it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are the Minister's circulars.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of affordable housing units that will be built on a site (details supplied) in view of the fact that a number of housing development sites, including a site and other sites around the State, received a substantial amount of funding from the local infrastructure housing activation fund, which contained a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like first to correct the Minister on a point he made earlier. Sinn Féin councillors did support the final Poolbeg proposal partly because they managed, along with councillors from other parties, to get an additional 350 social houses to the 620 originally proposed. A good job was done by the councillors in Dublin City Council. On Question No. 2, when the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is because the Minister's Government gave them no money to spend on doing anything with the land.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures are not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I get five questions, Minister.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government recognises it is not acceptable for families to live in unsuitable emergency accommodation. If a child presents unaccompanied to a Garda station out of hours, there is a clear statutory responsibility on the Garda to contact the Tusla-funded social worker. When a family with a child presents at the same Garda station, there is no statutory clarity in terms of...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Why is the problem getting worse? The Government has failed.

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government has had six years.

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has been more than six years and people are sleeping in a Garda station.

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is strange that the problem has increased by 300% during the Tánaiste's time in office as a consequence of the Government prioritising tackling it. I understand that she must defend the Government's position. However, given her background in social care and her time as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, I can only imagine how this issue makes her feel in private. In some...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Governments should be judged by how they treat the most vulnerable in society. After six years in office, Enda Kenny's record speaks for itself. According to the Central Statistics Office, in 2011 there were 641 homeless children but, last month, 2,563 children slept in emergency accommodation funded by the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. That is a 300%...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding his commitment to develop and roll out an affordable rental model; the model of affordable rental being examined by his Department; and the timeframe for the publication of this scheme. [24808/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regrading the pilot mortgage to rent scheme involving private equity firms including the lease arrangements in place; the level of security of tenure provided for home owners and tenants; and if it is designed to meet the needs of distressed mortgage holders who do not qualify for social housing. [24805/17]