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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: They Government has broken the promises it made at election time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the moment I only want to know about new applications. Of the 436 new applications that have come in, how many have progressed? Can Mr. Espey give us any information on the status of those applications?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures here show total payments made at 1,242. This relates to Deputy McAuliffe's question. What is the total number of households that have received the full grant determination, whether from the older scheme or the revised scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are years into this scheme. The working group report came out in 2017. I am now being told that only 40, 50 or 60 homes have received their full grant. Only 192 of the ones that were stuck in the old scheme have progressed and only 195 of the new applications have had an offer. There have only been 436 applications. I will come back to the matter on a subsequent round but that says to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to go back to figures, although I presume we will continue the conversation about the review of the industry standard. I have been looking back at the Estimates. In 2021, 2022 and 2023, €146 million was allocated to pyrite and mica remediation. Obviously a portion of that is to the Leinster pyrite scheme. Would Ms Stapleton know, even notionally, how much of that €146...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: But there has been a demand. I am looking at the CCMA’s report. The total number of online registrations to the current scheme is 2,661. I presume that is people just logging online, checking the scheme out and seeing what is available. Regarding the total number of applications received, there is a discrepancy between the CCMA’s figures and a parliamentary question I got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me rephrase the question. It was not the local authorities or the Housing Agency that decided the design of the scheme. Ultimately, that was a policy question for Government in terms of the legislation that was provided. Given there is such a discrepancy between applications, applications deemed valid and drawdowns, and given such a significant amount money is not being spent, is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The witnesses from the Housing Agency were looking to come in. I appreciate Ms Stapleton's reply. I do not doubt her comments at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Rafferty made the point that this was a demand-led scheme. Here we have at least €200 million in approvals in the system, and the Mayo figure will bring it to over €200 million. That is €200 million that people are waiting for and we have €50 million or so in the pot, with €24 million spent last year. Could the committee get regular information in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: So we have no sense of whether there is a potentially growing number of applicants who are unsatisfied with what has been recommended for them and are not willing to proceed on that basis. We do not know that number at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Am I incorrect in saying there was to be an internal review within the Department one year into the scheme to see how it was operating, separate to the cost review? If I remember correctly, when we were doing the legislation, we were saying there could be a review of the scheme at least within three years, but it could be done earlier. There seemed to be an indication that there would be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of leased social housing properties funded by his Department via SHCEP at the end of 2023; the total cost to the State in 2023; and a breakdown of different lease types (details supplied) other with the full cost for each of these sub sets in 2023, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the...

Residential Tenancies (Illegal Evictions) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (9 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the creation of an offence of the forcible ending of a tenancy; to provide for a power to award exemplary damages where an illegal eviction has been found to have occurred; to provide for data exchange between Board and Property Services Regulatory Authority and the Revenue Commissioners in order to establish...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate this is one of the first Private Members' debates for the Minister of State in his new role but I would have been embarrassed to have to read out the speech that he read given the record of his party in government. Let us just look at the facts. Since his party has been in government, house prices have doubled, rents have doubled and the most shocking figure is that child...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — house prices continue to spiral out of control with prices for new homes up 9 per cent last year; — rents are also rising and have increased by 9 per cent for new tenancies and 6 per cent for existing renters in the last year; — the Government missed their new build social housing target by 11 per cent last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As with previous years, I have no objection at all to the proposition on the table. I have three questions, and while the same questions are asked each year, it is worthwhile to give a little time to them. When the waiver was first introduced, there was concern in some local authorities around issues of public liability insurance and so on. In the Minister’s officials’...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: So not that Mr. Kelly is aware of. Obviously this is not just about residency, but the interaction of three different ways of thinking about residency - the legal right to reside, habitual residency and reckonable residency. A lot of the concern in the earlier section was about the interaction of those three, and particularly whether reckonable residency is going to be a determinant on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would it be fair to say that, at this stage, even the Department is not clear on how reckonable residency will interact with the other two concepts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would be one case but I am referring to where entitlements to certain kinds of supports – in this case, social housing support – would accrue over time, for example by virtue of the length of time worked in the State or another criterion. It would not just be a case of habitual or legal residency but of accumulation. I get the sense that there is not clarity at this point...