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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is bad form but no surprise, given that the Minister is trying to blame councils.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reverse the decision to cut funding for social housing acquisitions, including housing first and the tenant in situ schemes. [24905/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will let Thomas catch his breath. He has run across the city, fair play to him. I am surprised the Corkman did not get lost. In light of the very real concern among local authorities and councillors, TDs and Senators, from both Government and Opposition benches, about the impact of the Government's cuts to social housing acquisition funding, including tenant in situ and housing first,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the greatest of respect to the Minister, what utter rubbish. When he notified local authorities of their allocations at the end of March, there was a sharp intake of breath, particularly in the large urban local authorities that have significant levels of homelessness. Not only was the capital allocation a substantial cut on what had been spent on acquisitions last year, but when the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course it would.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is deeply disappointing that not only did the Minister fail to address the question but he also misrepresented Sinn Féin's policy. Let me set the record straight. In our alternative housing plan, we have made provision for 6,500 acquisitions over five years, 2,000 this year, reducing by 200 each year until 2029. That is because we make the assumption that demand for the scheme over...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Two thousand acquisitions this year, 1,800 next year-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Well, you should read it again because you are misrepresenting it, Minister - deliberately.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The suggestion that what has been happening with the approvals for social and affordable housing at the end of last year and early this year is perfectly normal is simply not true. Either the Minister knows that and is refusing to address the question or he simply does not know what is going on in his Department. There is considerable frustration among local authorities, approved housing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am beginning to worry that the Minister does not understand what is actually happening in his Department. I urge him to talk to local authority directors of housing and the Irish Council for Social Housing. I will forward him the details on the individual schemes by way of email after this meeting. Typically, a decision on an application from an AHB – for example, for the capital...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the delayed Department approvals for social and affordable housing. [24903/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister update the House on the ongoing delay in approvals of social and affordable housing projects for local authorities and approved housing bodies? In particular, how many of the 3,000 units that got Cabinet funding approval on 18 February still have not been formally approved and notified to the local authorities and approved housing bodies? How many projects beyond the 3,000...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that no affordable homes will be delivered in phase 1A of the Poolbeg West strategic development zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24432/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Government missed its new-build social, affordable purchase and cost-rental targets in 2024; to set out what he intends to do to ensure the targets for 2025 are not missed; and to confirm what those targets are for new-build social, affordable purchase and cost rental. [24436/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that the €1 billion of funding for Uisce Éireann in budget 2025 was not additional money; and to set his response to the utility's request for an additional €2 billion in capital funding out to 2030, including €1.7 billion for urban capacity upgrades and €300 million for rural...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the interim remediation scheme for fire safety defects; and for an update on the legislation for the wider remediation scheme for homes with Celtic tiger-era defects. [24434/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the source of the non-voted €490 million allocated to Uisce Éireann under the heading 'internal’ (income-own resources) in the published Revised Estimates for 2025; if this funding is intended to be spent in 2025 exclusively or if it is to be spent over a number of years; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the source of the non-voted €514 million allocated to Uisce Éireann under the heading 'external’ (borrowings-EU receipts) in the published Revised Estimates for 2025; if this funding is intended to be spent in 2025 exclusively or if it is to be spent over a number of years; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (15 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the total expenditure allocated to Uisce Éireann for its public capital programme in each of the past five years, broken down by voted Exchequer and non-voted other sources, in tabular form. [24984/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 245 and 247 of 3 April 2025, if Leitrim County Councils social housing acquisition budget for 2025 is €2 or €3 million. [24517/25]