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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the cost rental tenant in situ scheme and the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. [15607/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, there have been significant problems with the implementation of the cost rental tenant in situ scheme. There have been very small numbers of applications and even lower numbers of purchases. Of course, there is an ongoing delay with the processing and progress of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. Can the Minister give us an update on whether he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Dillon is the fourth Minister of State since 2018 to stand up in the House and read out almost exactly the same script. It is an open secret, and this will be of value to Deputy Flaherty, that the guidelines have been ready and complete for at least two if not three Ministers of State, but for reasons of political controversy they are not being published. We will not see the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing. [15610/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I commend the Government side, particularly the diligent backbenchers, on making an incredibly unsuccessful scheme sound successful. Three grants being drawn down in Longford in a year and a half is not, by any normal definition, a success. There were only 100 across the State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This scheme is good in principle but an absolute failure in practice. If the Minister wants to sell three drawdowns in a year and a half to his constituents as a success, far be it for me to get in his way. The Minister has had the report of the Housing Commission on the right to housing for almost a year. When will he publish it? More importantly, when will he act on it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It seems to me that the Minister has left out a few crucial details. The first, of course, is that a memo was due to go to Cabinet on this matter last autumn. The Minister thought he was able to proceed to refer the report to the Oireachtas committee for its consideration. That was blocked by his Government partners and now the thing sits in abeyance. I obviously have not seen the report,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is interesting the Minister did not refute or contradict my suggestion that there was an intention to bring a memo to Cabinet last autumn but there was a-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----disagreement between Government parties. If I am incorrect, I would like the Minister to put that clearly on the record. The problem is that this is another of those occasions where he makes it seem like he is doing something but where it appears that nothing is actually going to happen. I suspect what will happen is that eventually a memo will go to Cabinet, with both the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: God loves a trier.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: A roaring success. Absolutely.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the growing concerns among impacted homeowners with the defective concrete block grant scheme. [15882/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not. That is rubbish.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is going backwards.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: How is it possible at a time of rising social housing output that homelessness is also rising? The answer is simple. The targets the Government has set in its plan are too low and it is not meeting those targets. The Minister is correct that just over 8,000 new-build social homes were delivered last year, which is 1,000 short of the Government's target. When you look at the total number...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister's period of office comes to an end, he will be remembered for one thing and one thing only: presiding over the single largest increase in single, family and child homelessness in modern history. There is only one reason people become homeless: a failure of the State to ensure an adequate supply of social and affordable homes to meet the needs of households in crisis. In...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: And yet homelessness will rise.