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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: .... The full set of published CSRs can be found at this link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-p rojects-status-reports/ In 2015, my Department granted Stage 1 approval to Cork City Council and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (AHB) for a project. Cork City Council advised that due to various issues with site the project was deferred. In 2023 the project was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in the short-medium term through its market engagement initiative - Project Tosaigh. The LDA has brought the first affordable purchase homes sourced via this initiative to market in conjunction with Cork County Council and Waterford City and County Councils and has a pipeline of further projects anticipated to deliver affordable for sale and cost rental homes. The First Home Scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Cork County Council’s Housing Delivery Action Plan, which sets out details of social and affordable housing delivery in the period 2022-2026, is available on the Council’s website at www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/housing/housing-delivery-action- plan-2022-2026. The Council has a social housing delivery target of 3,198 units over the period 2022 to 2026. In 2022, Cork County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...circular letter to all local authorities in March, setting out details of these arrangements and each local authority was provided with a provisional allocation for social housing acquisitions in 2023. Cork City have a provisional allocation to acquire 80 social homes in 2023, while Cork County Council have a provisional allocation to acquire 60 homes. These allocations will be kept under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...a dedicated focus on tackling vacancy and dereliction with a view to increasing the opportunities for residential development. 30 out of 31 local authorities now have a full time VHO in place including Cork County Council who have received €60,000 to support their Vacant Homes Office. The role of the VHO in each local authority is:To actively promote and lead the uptake within the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Area Plans (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...tables 2.8 and A1.8 in the report. My Department conducted a survey on the use of choice based letting (CBL) in September 2022 which indicates that 17 local authorities operate CBL. These are Clare, Cork City, Cork County, Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, Galway City, Galway County, Kildare, Kerry, Leitirm, Longford, Louth, Meath, South Dublin, Tipperary and Waterford....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Forest Industries Ireland Commission for Regulation of Utilities Comsec Construction Industry Federation CORA Cork County Council Crossflow CS Consulting Dormakaba DRes Properties DTE Manufacturing Dublin City...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...xa0; Recommended to Approve  Carlow County Council 40 14 Cavan County Council 18 8 Clare County Council 45 20 Cork City Council 129 42 Cork County Council 263 86 Donegal County Council 23 10 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (10 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...with representatives of local authorities and State agencies. To facilitate this process, my Department established a working group consisting of representatives from South Dublin, Limerick, Cork City and Waterford local authorities as well as the Local Government Management Agency. My Department also engaged with expert valuers within the Valuation Office and the local government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...these are real people buying real homes and taking their stake in society. Our affordability measures have been life-changing for many first-time buyers, particularly the first home scheme. Just short of 1,400 households in 24 counties have been approved and have received their eligibility certificates allowing them to buy their chosen home. Some 82% of live approvals have been for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...two Acts were crucial. The Affordable Housing Act set down cost rental on a nationwide basis in primary legislation. The Land Development Agency Act, as the Deputy rightly says, is designated for Cork and Dublin in particular, with regard to 100% social and affordable homes. There are some who would wish to ignore the fact that we had 20 weeks of a construction shutdown due to Covid....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: With regard to affordable purchase and specifically the issues relating to Cork, Cork City Council has done a good job in leading there, as has Cork County Council quite significantly. There were issues with conveyancing on some of the initial cost-rental homes. There was the same issue in Lusk in north County Dublin. It had to be worked through. I have just seen a note that states 183...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., would be crazy not to reissue mortgage approval. We are looking at very affordable homes here and this is what we want. We want more of them. Cluain Chaoin will go to the general meeting of Cork City Council for approval on Monday, 8 May.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I meet the chief executives of the local authorities on a regular basis, including the chief executive of Cork City Council and others throughout the country. All of our local authorities are fully tooled up to provide support for tenants. I will conclude on discussing the reason we did not extend the ban. Deputy Gould's party called for three different extension dates. Extending the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...on that which I expect to have next week. I will make an announcement. I wanted to do that before Easter but we were not in a position to do so. That is another stream of delivery. I visited Shannonvale in County Cork and I was in Patrickswell with the Deputy. As he knows, we are seeing a fantastic new development happening there. It is only fair to acknowledge where things are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: With regard to compact urban growth in particular, if one looks at cost rental, for argument's sake, one thing Deputy Gould never mentions is the cost-rental scheme right in the middle of Cork city at Lancaster Gate, which is a fantastic development. Unfortunately, it is the only city-centre cost rental that is tenanted at present. We have many good developments around Delgany, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...AHBs within that sector. To be fair to local authorities, this is new to some of them. Some local authorities have not done it before and others have not done it in years. Counties Waterford and Cork have moved very well on affordable purchase. Fingal is moving on it. I would like to see other local authorities do so. County Kildare is also doing well. We are scaling it up. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...it was not enough. I asked him what would be enough and whether €50,000 or €70,000 would be enough for a vacant home grant. I take it that, if someone comes into Deputy Gould's constituency office in Cork city and says that he or she would love to buy a building down the road and get a grant, he does not advise them on how to get a Croí Cónaithe grant and that, if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I will be very brief but I will first say that I did not mean to raise the Deputy's ire. However, Cork City Council delivered 517 new-build homes last year. That is a significant number.