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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Could I ask Mr. Mallon what footprint would be covered by the €300,000? Is he talking a couple of different CHOs? What would that look like?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: I thank the witnesses. I will start by saying it has been a really fascinating and important conversation. I also support people with disabilities living in the community. It is an invaluable way of empowering people to realise their full potential. I have experience of that in my constituency where we have Stewarts Care and Peamount Healthcare which do incredible work empowering people...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (19 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the visitor numbers to the visitor centre in the Phoenix Park for a specified timeframe (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52246/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: I thank the witnesses for coming in. They are all on the front line of the crisis and they, and their teams, are doing all they can to help to solve it. I thank them for their efforts. I have four questions that I would like each local authority to answer and then I will have specific comments and questions relating to their presentations. I will go first to Cork City Council and then...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: What is the number in Galway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Have the homeless counters of both councils reopened since Covid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Fantastic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: I know one of the councils confirmed this already, but do they both have full-time vacant homes officers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Fantastic. Do they currently have empty capital advance leasing facility, CALF, homes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Super. There is no particular impediment or stumbling block in that regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Fantastic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Fantastic. I thank the witnesses. As regards Cork, I love the ambition behind the statement that targets are a minimum. That is a massive statement to make in a committee room such as this. I thank the council for that. Is 691 properties its target for 2022 , or is that what it expects to achieve?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Fantastic. Of those the council is going to deliver, 135 are affordable and 105 are cost rental this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: That is approximately 35%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Brilliant. That is encouraging. Also encouraging is the information that has been provided on dereliction in Cork and the 22 sites in respect of which compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, were issued, with 619 already delivered and 200 more in the pipeline. I would be interested to hear if they had any best practice that they could share with other local authorities that are struggling in this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Brilliant. It sounds like Galway has between 152 and 158 in the pipeline to be delivered this year. Am I correct that this is 60% of their target?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: Unlike Cork, unfortunately, it is not a target as a minimum. The officials spoke about limited vacant homes in the city. GeoDirectory, probably combining Galway City Council and Galway County Council figures, found that Galway was quite well above the average when it came to vacancies and the vacancy rate. The North and Western Regional Assembly found similar. What is Galway City...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: What does Mr. Barrett expect to exceed them by?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Emer Higgins: That would exceed 341.