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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To say the Minister's response is Orwellian would be an understatement. Let us look at the facts. As regards his affordable purchase scheme, the only Government scheme that delivers anything close to genuinely affordable homes, he missed his target last year by 63%. As regards the cost-rental scheme, he missed his target by 59%. As regards the first home scheme, which he has lauded, he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course, the Minister is deliberately misrepresenting not only his failure to meet his own targets but also our party's policy. If people want to know Sinn Féin's policy, they can read it on the website. This is questions to the Minister. He can laugh, but the only affordable housing in my local authority last year was homes to purchase for €400,000-plus. As regards...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is falling under your watch.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Homeownership is falling under your watch.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make it an offence for a landlord to seek sex in lieu of rent or to advertise to seek sex in lieu of rent and for that purpose to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. It was in December 2021 that Ann Murphy, a young reporter with the Irish Examiner, broke the scandal that has...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the clarification with respect to duplexes. There are schemes, such as Millford Manor in Kildare, where the houses had the same defects as the apartments and there was a very serious fire. I ask the Minister to look at that in the context of the legislation. Has the Minister made up his mind yet on whether this will be an end-to-end scheme similar to the pyrite...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on both the provision of emergency funding for multi-unit developments with building defects and the legislation to underpin the full defective buildings redress scheme. [6825/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that 79 applications have been received by the Department for the interim remediation scheme for apartment and duplex owners with Celtic tiger-era defects across 22 counties, representing almost 7,500 residential units. Will the Minister provide an update on where those application are at and when he expects owner management companies, OMCs, to be able to draw down the funding?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. With respect to fire safety, I would be interested to know if, even at this stage, he has an indication of how much expenditure is likely to be required for the applications and specifically when people will be able to draw down the money. I welcome the fact that decisions will be made soon. Regarding the legislation, does the Minister envisage an end-to-end scheme...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House and he will have to correct the record.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: You should not be allowed mislead the House, Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Stick to the question. What is the Minister going to do about record homelessness?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What are you going to do about record homelessness? This is not a laughing matter, Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Smirking at such an important issue.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, Chair.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes delivered in 2023 via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan and the Land Development Agency's Project Tosaigh; and his views on the rising rents and house prices under these schemes. [7244/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister in a position yet to tell us about the final delivery of social new build and affordable housing under the three affordable housing schemes were for last year? If not, can he indicate if he believes the targets set out in his housing plan will be met on those four crucial schemes?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In fact the figures for delivery under the genuine affordable housing schemes are much worse than the number the Minister quoted here. In his first year as Minister, no affordable purchase homes were delivered and only 65 cost-rental homes. In 2022, there were only 323 genuinely affordable homes to purchase delivered and just under 700 cost-rental homes. The Minister is right that we do...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is that the Minister keeps missing his target. For example, he did not meet his affordable purchase or cost-rental targets last year. He will not meet them this year. On the first homes scheme, which the Minister is correct that I oppose, the Minister missed his targets by 50% last year and by even more the year before. But also, increasingly the homes he is talking about are...