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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation. [24288/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is absolutely not true. What did Fianna Fáil do with the Clonburris and the SDZ for 8,500 homes but no-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: You are the Minister and homelessness is rising.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is, and you should do something about it. You are the Minister. You are in charge. This is on you.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to address the rising levels of homelessness and in particular the unacceptably high levels of child homelessness. [24568/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...2,000 emergency beds for people experiencing homelessness here in Dublin. Yesterday, I was in Limerick with my colleague, Deputy Quinlivan. We met with Help the Homeless Limerick, NOVAS and other front-line homelessness service providers. They described a significant deterioration in the homelessness situation in the area with increases in the number of rough sleepers and people seeking...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is absolutely correct that he has turned the dial and that there has been a step change. That step change is the most dramatic increase in child homelessness under any Minister in modern times. In Cork city, Limerick city, Waterford and Dublin, homelessness is rising. When Deputy O'Brien became Minister, there were just over 2,500 children in emergency accommodation funded by...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Despite what the Minister has said, the numbers of adults, children, families and pensioners in emergency accommodation rises under his watch. After his term of office, he will be known and remembered as the Minister for homelessness. He is selectively quoting figures when his own Department tells us that the figures are increasing month on month and year on year. In the last 12 months,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...'s response, he suggested that it has insulted the commission by suggesting that recommendations for the radical changes it is proposing are already being done. Maybe the Minister does not understand the recommendation about 20%. The commission is not calling for 20% of private housing to be social and affordable. It is saying it wants 20% of all housing stock to be social and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...by the Government but is at radical variance with it. I will deal with two matters. When the Government was developing the targets for its current plan, it deliberately excluded pent-up demand. When the ESRI undertook its survey to inform the Government's plan, it was not allowed to look at pent-up demand. That is the deficit. Right now, the ESRI is undertaking a similar study....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a response to the report of the Housing Commission. [24567/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...it is no surprise that the Minister would not want to publish it in advance of the election given its stinging criticism of the Government's record of ineffective decision-making, reactive policymaking and risk aversion - all undermining affordability - a failure to treat housing as a critical social and economic priority, and one of the highest levels of public expenditure for housing yet...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in 2024. [24566/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The delivery of affordable homes to purchase and rent have been two of the most spectacular failures of the Minister's tenure. Last year, he missed his affordable housing targets by more than 60% and the year before by 50%. Increasingly, the homes he is delivering through the affordable purchase and cost-rental schemes are not affordable. Can the Minister give us an update on targets for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...impression that last year, 4,000 households moved into 4,000 affordable homes. Of course, the Minister knows that is not true because of that 4,000, 2,000 are approvals of the first home scheme, and only about 1,000 of those resulted in purchases-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and none of those homes are affordable. When we actually look at the schemes the Minister directly controls, that is, the delivery of cost rental by approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency and affordable purchase homes by local authorities, it was about 1,500. That is the number the Minister delivered and increasingly, many of those are not affordable. I have to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...to rent or buy. He delivered half that number. Last year, he promised approximately 3,500 affordable homes to rent or buy. He missed his target by 60%. We might look at the prices from the Land Development Agency in my own constituency in Citywest. Entry-level rents for a one-bedroom unit cost €1,400 and for a three-bedroom unit, it is almost €1,800. That is more...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Minister's own constituency, the all-in cost for so-called affordable homes funded through his scheme is €565,000. My question is very simple. There are two schemes the Minister put in place and promised delivery of and on which he is failing. What are those two schemes going to deliver this year? What are the targets? What is the estimated delivery? Are they going to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Homeownership is falling and house prices are rising.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Homeownership is falling and house prices are rising.