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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: The next speaker is Deputy Casey. We tend to be quite lenient on this committee. I remind members that today's topic for discussion is credit union finance for social housing. I have been lenient with members and I hope they will stick as close as possible to the topic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: No, I mean in general. A number of speakers spoke before the Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: That is what I said. I have been lenient with all members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: As I have said, I have been lenient with all members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: The Deputy was the fourth speaker.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: I did not single out anybody, Deputy O'Dowd.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: I said that in general I am lenient with all committee members. I call Deputy Casey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Deputy McGrath. I ask Mr. Brennan to answer all of the questions and urge members not to interrupt him. Members can clarify their questions afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. Dunne. Deputy Ó Broin had a question for Mr. Coyle on North-South issues but, with the agreement of the committee, I wish to stick to the topic of credit union financing and how it can facilitate AHBs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: I will take a second round of questions in order that members can seek clarifications. We have 40 minutes left. I ask all present to stick to the topic we are discussing today, where possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. Callan, Mr. Coyle, Mr. Dunne and Mr. Brennan for coming before us and for their ongoing engagement. The committee will resume consideration of this topic tomorrow morning with officials from the Department of Finance and the Central Bank.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (29 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider putting a compulsory purchase order on the playing pitches at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30620/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services members are asked to ensure that their mobile telephones are turned off or switched to airplane safe or flight mode, depending on the device, for the duration of the meeting. It is not sufficient for members to put their telephones on silent mode as this will maintain the level of interference with the broadcasting systems. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: We are resuming our consideration of the topic of short-term lettings and the impact, if any, they are having on Ireland's housing and rental market. Today's meeting will consist of two sessions and I welcome to our first session Dr. Ronan Lyons, assistant professor of economics at Trinity College, and Mr. John McCafferty and Mr. Gavin Elliot from Threshold. Before we begin, I wish to draw...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Dr. Lyons for his presentation. I call on Mr. McCafferty to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: Do members wish to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: As there are no further questions in the session, I thank our witnesses for coming in today. If there is anything of relevance which was not covered, they might communicate it to the committee afterwards to allow us to include it in our report. The next witnesses are Mr. Patrick Robinson and Ms Natasha Mytton-Mills of Airbnb. Before we begin, I draw their attention to the fact that by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: I will only ask two brief questions, as two of my other questions have already been asked by Deputy Ó Broin. What details does Airbnb use to verify that individual hosts do not have multiple properties under different accounts? How does it verify that? In his written submission to the committee, Mr. Parkinson wrote that professional lettings could, under certain circumstances, be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: That could get Mr. Robinson into trouble.