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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome Finola Cassidy to the Visitors Gallery. She is very welcome. I know she is an amazing champion. I commend the Senator on raising this issue. I welcome the Minister. The Senator has four minutes to set out his Commencement matter.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Senator, who made a crystal-clear ask. The Minister of State has four minutes to respond.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authority Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: The Senator should allow the Minister of State to finish.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: The Senator was very concise in her request and the Minister of State was very concise in his reply, so they both have extra time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome Ms Doherty, Mr. McGrath and their teams to the committee. I have some concise questions. I thank the council officials for coming in to engage with the committee. We appreciate it. I was listening from my office and have been listening since I came in. I will ask this question later but I want to flag it so the officials might reflect on it. Here we are, as people from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: All right, and how many of the properties the council owns or has an involvement with are on its derelict sites register?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: How many of them belong to the council? How many does it own or have an interest in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Those are sites that are derelict.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: All right. What is the capacity for housing on those 29 sites? Has the council done an analysis? I ask Mr. Reidy and others to be quite concise in their replies, because time is running out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Maybe at a later date the council could provide the committee with an analysis and breakdown of how many of the sites could be used for residential or have that capacity. As Mr. Reidy says, they are not all suitable but it is an interesting figure. Is the council considering the use of any vacant commercial or retail spaces for residential?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: The council is navigating planning and building regulations and all that without any great difficulty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: That is great. The council has a target of building 4,136 social and affordable homes by 2026. Before I go further I thank the officials for that. Their housing delivery plan is very impressive but again everything is only great and successful if it is delivering. The officials are telling us the council will deliver 4,136 units by 2026. Is Ms Doherty, as chief executive, confident of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thought Ms Doherty was going to ask me to draw breath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Okay. Ms Doherty is reasonably confident.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Given all of that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Fantastic. I have a question on the 324 cost rental homes to be provided by AHBs. Can Mr. Geaney give some indication of the timelines around that in terms of delivery? At the end of the day, this is all about the delivery of homes. It is not about ideology; rather, it is about getting homes over the line and getting people into them. Can he tell us about the cost rental homes and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Philbin is reasonably confident that can happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: That is great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Deputy Gould is on his feet in another venue. I will go back to Ms Doherty and Cork City Council. The witnesses' responses have been very impressive. I thank Deputy McAuliffe in particular for some of his questions because they elicited very quickly a lot of very positive responses. It is important to acknowledge that. I wish to recap on something. We talked about the derelict...