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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Robinson for the presentation. Before asking some questions I will just outline our own position. As I mentioned when I met Ms Mytton-Mills earlier this year, we are not against short-term lettings or home sharing. We support the concept, partly because of the benefits for tourism and partly because of the benefits for the hosts themselves. We think it is good for the city....

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is the precise conversation we need to have because it is important for us to understand the complexities of this issue. I appreciate that an Airbnb host will not know at the start of the year how many nights he or she will want to let for. If someone wins a holiday on a radio show, for example, he or she might decide that rather than having an empty house for a week, it should be put...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am reminded of one small thing. The research report in London which confirmed some of that data was supported by Airbnb. Was it supported in terms of data provision, did Airbnb fund the report or what was the relationship between the researchers and Airbnb?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (28 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the 10,000 social housing units currently in his Department's plans which have not yet commenced the part 8 process. [30253/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the fire safety certificate and disability access certificate was issued by Dublin City Council for a building (details supplied); when a certificate of compliance was validated by Dublin City Council; the name of the assigned certifier who was on site on 21 June 2017; when the safety file was given to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the 800 plus families who were in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation at the end of March 2017 that have been transferred to other forms of emergency accommodation to date in 2017; and the number of the 650 families who were in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation at the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (28 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide his Department's targets for social housing completions in 2017 by scheme type (details supplied), in tabular form. [30426/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (28 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social housing completions in the first quarter of 2017 by scheme type, in tabular form (details supplied). [30427/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that from the capital budget or the capital and current budgets combined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sorry to see that Mr. McCarthy has an arm injury. I hope it has nothing to do with our new Minister giving him a hard time in the last week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: He has not been strong-arming Mr. McCarthy or twisting his arm. I refer to Pillar 3, first, and the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF. I am increasingly concerned that the original intention of this scheme, which was to assist in the delivery of affordable units, will no longer happen. A sum of €226 million has been awarded in principle to a range of projects. Last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the Department's threshold for affordability because clearly it is not what was included in the original circular anymore?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Affordability is based on what people can pay, not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the basis of what Mr. Walsh has said, there could, for example, be in Cherrywood a potential allocation of €15 million without any house coming in under €300,000. That is possible; therefore, there will be no affordability option.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is in the centre we are talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would it not be approximately six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My questions was, is there an actual model as opposed to an idea? What I am hearing from councillors in Dublin city, and from a manager in South Dublin, is that there is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a target of 6,600 over the six years under what has already been announced. The real question is whether it will be more ambitious than that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will follow up the questions on homelessness. I presume the May homeless figures will be out this week. The Minister's predecessor had a terrible habit of allowing the release of them late on a Friday or bank holiday Monday. If the Minister has seen them, will he tell them to us? More importantly, will he give a commitment that they will be released in a way to allow full and proper...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who have been granted a stamp 4 visa each month to date in 2017, in tabular form. [29917/17]