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Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to go back to the detailed Revised Estimates Volume that was laid before the House on Tuesday this week. I want to refer to it to make things easier. One of the things that is helpful about the Estimates for social housing is that there are very clear targets. We know the target for new builds, acquisitions, leasing, HAP and RAS. We have never had clarity on the individual targets...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That within that 6,400 total.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are separate to the 1,600 units. Those will not be like the ones in Shanganagh, where they are sold through the local authority but delivered by the LDA. Are these on top of the 1,600 units or are they included in it?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay, so it is a total of 1,600 affordable purchases by the local authorities and the LDA.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, it is 500 units on top of the 1,600 units.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the figure for cost-rental units?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, perfect. Even in the budget book when the budget is published, there is not that level of clarity because, for example, cost-rental units are mixed in together. We have never had an official target published for the affordable purchase area, so that is really helpful. If they are published, though, and if the targets are met, the Minister could point to them and say he met them, and...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It comes out of A3.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. Again, that is a little bit like the development levy waiver. It is under social housing but it is for land acquisition rather than for the building of the homes. Is that it?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, it is okay. Just so I can understand it, there is a land acquisition fund, to which money was allocated this year and in previous years. Which subhead does this funding fit under? Is the Minister saying it is under A3, local authority housing?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay, but let us take the example of a local authority drawing down money from A3 for a building project. There would be a land element to that and that makes complete sense. Separately, however, funding was set aside. The former Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, brought a Supplementary Estimate in his last year where, because there had been an underspend in the building of social homes...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that be in the agency's subhead here or in a separate account?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is really helpful. I have a couple of small points to pick up on pieces of the REV. The last time we spoke about State regeneration, one of the points I made to the Minister was that Dublin City Council, in terms of its proposals for the refurbishment of flat blocks from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, which are some of the poorest quality rental accommodation in the State, had been told...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, it is a legal requirement under one of the national policy objectives of the NPF. There is an explicit NPF obligation that regeneration funding has to be linked to an increase in density, although that is very unhelpful. Even insofar as requiring no reduction in density, Dublin City Council has been told that is a requirement for specific developments. I know there is some...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of quick things to cover. I very much welcome the transfer of responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 and the Property Services Regulatory Authority to the Minister's Department. It is where it should always have been. It means that we can, hopefully, do some work on it. The Act is outdated and not fit for purpose. In the context of it being here in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister refers to the Department of justice's piece, what is that, for our information?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department of justice is going to finish its review and the Minister is saying it might then make some legislative changes on foot of that.