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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: The Minister said this on the record in the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: It is incorrect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I will start with the homelessness figures. If there is any lesson has been learned today, it is not to go out in public without the accurate information. Maybe the Minister went a little too far in adjusting the March figures. I wish to focus on the homelessness figures and the use of both hotels and supported accommodation. Although the previous Minister promised that nobody would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: One cannot sort the data on a PDF.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I only went on this morning and it was not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: The figures I have given are the figures from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, they are not the figures from the local authority. One would have expected the Minister to check with his Department before he came into the Dáil last night and made a damning statement about a local authority saying it had not delivered a social house in 16 years. I think the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: The Minister can now see he was incorrect. Why does he not use the Department's figures? He took the chief executive officer's word over his Department's figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: It goes back to the inaccuracy of figures. The Minister has spoken throughout the meeting about having accurate and complete information but he went into the Dáil on a whim last night and made an allegation against my party. The members of the local authority who worked over the past 16 years deserve to have the record of the Dáil corrected by him in respect of the delivery of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I have four brief questions. What is the next process in regard to the rent predictability measure? When will the Minister bring some measure before us? One of the issues left out of that, and I notice it in my constituency, specifically in Arklow, are areas that are on the boundary of a rent pressure zone. There seems to be a surge in the number of people trying to increase the rent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: Are the local authorities promoting it more? Sometimes the information that this scheme was available did not get out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Pat Casey: If it did it would have to finally go through the stability and fire certification process.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I welcome tonight's motion on affordable housing, which has been brought forward by my colleague, Deputy O'Brien. Affordable housing is an area of the systemic housing crisis that has been consistently overlooked by the Government, yet it remains an essential keystone in the solution of delivering homes for all our people. It is an historical fact that there is an embedded and consistent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Local Property Tax: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank Councillor McGinley for his presentation this morning. I go back a bit in time to my attendance at the launch of the "Putting People First" document at Dublin Castle. I was intrigued by it because I thought power was being given back to local authorities. I thought councillors were being given the power to make the decisions and to spend the money. I have to give Phil Hogan credit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Local Property Tax: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Pat Casey: Councillor McGinley, the Chairman and Senator Boyhan mentioned the following. In terms of the timing of the decision of the property tax in early October or whenever, while Dublin City Council and most of the Dublin authorities are in a position to give a 15% or whatever discount, other counties struggle at that time. It is when one is trying to decide how much of a discount should be...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (8 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I wish to come in on this subject because Wicklow is going through its own revaluation process. We all know the value small and medium-sized enterprises have to each county, especially in towns. Through no fault of the businesses themselves, rates have not been revalued in 20 or even 30 years but the businesses are now faced with a revaluation process that is unjust and will involve a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I must agree in the sense that while one might say that these people have been in houses for two years, they are not in secure tenancies. In fairness, they should be described as being homeless. We have been producing monthly figures for two years and it has taken two years to discover this anomaly in the system, which is unacceptable. Is the Minister trying to play games with the homeless...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I take it from what the Minister said that 484, comprising adults and children, were not included on the list because they were housed in private accommodation. I believe that is what he said. I believe 247 and 237 were the figures he gave. Regardless of that, he said in an interview on "Morning Ireland" last week that people who were considered homeless were being accommodated in local...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I will be taking questions on his behalf today because he is away.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Pat Casey: Fine Gael scrapped the affordable housing scheme in 2012. The current Government and its predecessor have not delivered an affordable home since coming into power almost seven years ago. The current Government introduced a new affordable housing scheme in January 2018. An integral part of that scheme to deliver affordable homes is the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank the Minister. He did not answer the question on how many houses have been delivered to date so I assume the answer is nil. I can understand the blockage in the system is because of the capital nature of the project. With regard to affordability, sums of over €300,000 are regarded as affordable in Dún Laoghaire. It is not really affordable to the average person. Can...