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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Is that not a concern?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Is there a concern about delivering on these sites? The Housing Agency could be going ahead and doing it. I know that in the case of the site in Skerries, the local authority was pretty much ready and had a master plan. Now in one sense we are stopped because the Land Development Agency is not a legal entity and does not have legislation governing it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I am sorry; I just wanted to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes; it goes back to the original Act.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I will explain the purpose of my question. The four Dublin local authorities have in principle adopted the broad criteria for a scheme because each of them wants to have an affordable purchase scheme in its area. Does the fact that the scheme has not been concluded make it difficult to cost it? That is what I asked. There is no final scheme. Mr. O'Neill has spoken about schemes such as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: In the absence of the final model of affordable purchase, each local authority is deciding what it deems to be the affordable model for the schemes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: It is probably not ideal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: That is helpful. I thank Mr. McCarthy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Mr. O'Neill has mentioned Balbriggan. Which Balbriggan site is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Is the Housing Agency considering using all of it for cost rental properties?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I wish to follow on briefly with a question on cost rental. Let us consider the figure of €1,200 for Enniskerry Road in the context of the average income in Dublin. As a percentage of net take home pay, that figure is approximately 42% for a single earner. It is far above what would be deemed the affordable level of one third, or between 30% and 35%, of net take home pay. That is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: A single person.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Even for a couple in Dublin, the average rent would still be above 30%. That is the benchmark of affordability but I take Mr. Baneham's point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: What about Castlelands?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Five hundred or 550 in respect of cost rental?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: There is no split.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the delegates for their presentations which follow on from those made to the committee earlier. Ms Poole and Mr. Keegan mentioned the Land Development Agency, LDA, and welcomed its establishment. It was announced in September last year, but no land has been transferred to it. It is not a legal entity and does not have legislation to guide it at this stage. What interaction do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: It is just the figure for affordable housing figure? It does not include social and private housing. Perhaps Mr. Kenny might clarify the total number for each estate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: What are the totals?