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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: I will come to the affordable mortgages. I am answering Deputy Ellis's question, if that is okay with Deputy Coppinger.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: I will come back to that. Affordable rental is linked to mixed tenure developments, which is something that we are trying to progress. I live next door to a mixed tenure development that works very well.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: I do. Deputy Coppinger seems to have preconceived notions as to where I come from every time we have this debate.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: We are trying to ensure that mixed tenure is provided where possible in the new social housing developments that we are funding. It is not always possible. Sometimes we will fund the more traditional local authority housing estate. We have signed off on many of those in the last six months. Tens of millions of euro are being spent on them. On big sites such as O'Devaney Gardens, Oscar...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: That can be looked at. Our focus to date has been on trying to get social housing built, trying to get capacity in place to build, trying to get a lot of sites that have been basically stagnant for a decade up and running again and trying to build capacity within affordable housing bodies and local authorities to build social housing. Many local authorities were very badly caught out with...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: It is not necessarily shared ownership, it is also affordable housing estates. In principle, I do not disagree with Deputy Ellis that we need to look at an affordable housing model. How we provide accommodation in places like Dublin city centre for people to be able to work and live in close proximity is key. I have an open mind on whether that is through affordable rental, through...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: Factoring in the cost of sites is a big problem in Dublin, in particular. It is less of a problem outside Dublin, apart from areas such as Galway and Cork. We are looking independently at the cost of building houses through the Housing Agency and through the Department. In Dublin, depending on what estimate one looks at, one needs to factor in €60,000 for site purchase. This seems...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: We have €300 million of capital value earmarked into the plan between now and 2021. In total, that programme is expected to deliver 1,500 social housing units through PPPs. There is a tendering process that will mean that in most of these projects, the money will be spent next year rather than this year because it takes time to ramp that up. We should use public private...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: My understanding is that Dublin City Council has been one of the leading proponents of using PPPs. It has been appointed to act as the lead local authority for the delivery of the social housing PPP programme in respect of this first project bundle with Cork County Council appointed to act as the lead local authority in respect of the second project bundle. The identification and selection...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: I am not saying now but if the Deputy has any particular concerns we can talk to Dublin City Council about them.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: On Deputy Coppinger's questions, in Fingal there are 21 projects in the pipeline there. There are three projects at stage 1 for 61 units, there are two projects at stage 2 which is ten units, four at stage 3 which is 85 units, two at stage 4 which is 97 units and there are six on site for 238 units, as well as four completed last year, which was 48 units. That is a total of 539 units.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: In Fingal. I note we are ramping up. I am not defending the numbers for last year and the year before. We need to continue to ramp up. Fingal has had a big focus on acquisitions in the last number of years. The Deputy is right, actually, that we should be focusing on buying up properties to get them into social housing use quickly. We spent €203 million last year buying more than...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: I will answer that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: I am glad that Deputy Healy-Rae remembers what I said in Kerry, which is good. We had a really good day in Tralee. We are investing a large amount money in some big social housing projects and redevelopment projects there, particularly in the Mitchels area. I said that the repair and leasing scheme will be going nationwide this year but the emphasis will be on providing social housing...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Simon Coveney: I ask the Deputy to let me answer. We have an agreement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to spend €32 million to go through an initial phase which will involve approximately 800 to 1,000 units with the money that is available. That money is available this year. We will be working through approved housing bodies, AHB, and local authorities to try to get properties...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)
Simon Coveney: Under the Foreshore Act 1933 (as amended) a person who has submitted an environmental impact statement in accordance with a requirement of or under section 13A of this Act shall, as soon as may be, send a copy of the relevant application and environmental impact statement to certain specified prescribed bodies including the National Tourism Development Authority (Fáilte Ireland)....
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (1 Mar 2017)
Simon Coveney: The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) has been developed to assist private property owners and local authorities or Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to harness the accommodation potential that exists in certain vacant properties across Ireland. The scheme is targeted at owners of vacant properties who cannot afford or access the funding needed to bring their properties up to the required...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (1 Mar 2017)
Simon Coveney: My Department’s new Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2016-2018 was developed through a working group of key stakeholders involving local authorities, the Water Services Transition Office, Irish Water, the National Federation of Group Water Schemes as well as my Department. The programme provides for the funding of demonstration Group Sewerage Schemes, through Measure 4(d), where...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)
Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together. I will be writing to the Deputy shortly regarding details of the role, operation and membership of the MLVC. For all applications, the application form and supporting documentation, together with all the submissions received from both the prescribed bodies and the public and the applicant’s responses to these submissions, as well...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)
Simon Coveney: As I indicated previously in my response to parliamentary question No 198 on 8 November 2016, in 2006 the then Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources was responsible for the regulation of the foreshore under the 1933 Foreshore Act. The application for the original 10 year lease was processed by that Department and I had no role in this decision. Following a search of...