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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)

Darragh O'Brien: ...not and to remove what is not needed. There have been great improvements to the public realm in the Cathaoirleach's constituency, such as in Wicklow town. I could give many other examples, such as in Cork city, where the local authority has been prominent in providing for permanent pedestrianisation. The same is true of Fingal and my town, Malahide, where the change that has been made...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Department does not collate data on the numbers of social housing units owned by individual local authorities nor those disaggregated by electoral boundaries. This information may be available from Cork County Council. The National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC) produces an annual Performance Indicator Report for local authorities, which details a range of performance indicators...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The detailed advancement of housing and other works under the Cork City North West Quarter Regeneration (CNWQR) programme is a matter, in the first instance, for Cork City Council. The CNWQR Masterplan & Implementation Report was published in 2011. The strategy outlined a departure from previous policy, with a proposal to carry out wholesale demolition of the housing stock in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The construction site on Kilmore Road, Knocknheeny forms part of the City Northwest Quarter Regeneration Programme, and part of Cork City Council’s wider social housing delivery programme. I have been advised by Cork City Council that Phase 2C is the subject of a complex contractual dispute. Cork City Council have advised that works have ceased on site pending the outcome of these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...x20ac; 200,666.67 Cavan € 244,687.50 Clare € 210,461.54 € 208,899.00 Cork City € 249,934.15 € 231,666.67 € 80,387.60 Cork County € ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Dublin local authorities have arrangements allowing social housing applicants apply for housing in up to two of the other Dublin authorities simultaneously. Similar arrangements apply in the two Cork and two Galway local authorities. Households may also move and relocate between housing authority areas under the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme where the household income is within...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ... Carlow €326,929.86 €435,889.70 Cavan €607,750.00 €0.00 Clare €2,286,815.69 €0.00 Cork County €3,499,048.42 €911,702.15 Cork City €2,550,975.29 €270,749.76 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...authority. The latest data available covers the period up to end Q4 2023. The table below provides a breakdown of the total number of active HAP tenancies at the end of Q4 2023 registered to Cork County Council, broken down by local area. Municipal Area Active Tenancies Ballincollig-Carrigaline 1 Bandon-Kinsale 296 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., the finalised document will be published in September 2024. Local government areas are specified in primary legislation. The Local Government Act 2001 currently provides for three cities, namely Cork, Dublin and Galway, and for each of these to have a city council. If an additional city council was to be established, it would have significant implications for the county in which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Relief Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...assurance that availability of resources is not a limiting factor in providing an effective local response. In the context of the flooding that occurred throughout the country – though experienced most acutely in East Cork - in the aftermath of Storms Babet, Ciarán and Debi, each of which affected Ireland in quick succession during Q4 2023, clearly the costs of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (16 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...of lands to the LDA is now under way, and a strong housing delivery pipeline from those lands is being developed which will optimise the LDA's delivery capacity for the next 5-10 years. In Cork City, construction work is under way at the St Kevin’s Hospital site which was formally transferred to the LDA from the HSE last year. 265 homes are scheduled to be delivered on the site,...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Sixteen hundred. To give you an example, Eoin, just in the past few weeks, 1,243 affordable purchase homes were advertised in Carlow, Cork city and county, Fingal, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Louth, Meath, Limerick, South Dublin - your own area, Waterford, Westmeath and Wicklow. It is taking hold and it does take time to build capacity.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Cork City Council have exceeded their social housing target in all areas by 5% in 2023 The social housing targets for Cork City Council in 2023 were 538 for new build, 86 for leasing and an allocation of 80 units for second hand tenant in situ acquisitions. In 2023, Cork City Council achieved its target, delivering 540 new build social housing units and 90 for leasing in addition to 109...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...made available to support all of these delivery streams. Local Authorities have published 5-year Housing Delivery Action Plans setting out affordable housing delivery targets up to 2026. Both Cork City and Cork County Council have set out plans to deliver 378 and 189 affordable homes respectively over this period. This Local Authority delivery does not include additional affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The management and control of social housing are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Cork City Council have informed my Department that feasibility for the redevelopment of the Noonan Road site is at an early stage. My Department currently funds multi-year programs of large-scale regeneration projects, including projects in Cork City....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...of tenure in our urban centres. To date, two calls for expressions of interest have been undertaken. Five contracts have been signed for the delivery of 582 units in total – 210 in Dublin and 372 in Cork. The Housing Agency is assessing the remaining proposals which were received under the first and second calls for expressions of interest for the Scheme. There will be a third...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Local Government Act 2019 (the Act) was enacted on 31 January 2019 to provide for the transfer of part of the administrative area of Cork County Council to the administrative area of Cork City, and this took place when the new Councils took office after the local elections in late May 2019. Financial responsibility did not transfer to Cork City Council until 1 January 2020 for budgeting...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...disadvantage in these estates through a holistic programme of physical, social and economic regeneration. My Department currently supports a programme of large-scale regeneration projects in Dublin, Cork and Limerick and smaller projects in Tralee, Sligo and Dundalk. These projects seek to address the causes of disadvantage in these communities through a holistic programme of physical,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...for sale in the coming years. The scheme launched in May 2022, with two formal calls for expression of interest in the period since. Five contracts have been signed already to deliver 582 units in Cork and Dublin. The remaining proposals under both calls are currently being assessed by the Housing Agency. A third call for expressions of interest will issue later this year. ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...for the Government to take action. I am not being facetious, but this would not be a provision that would be used by a Government stating we need to put a rural cluster in an area in west Cork. We are talking about where "an event or situation with significant national, regional or strategic implications has occurred". Let us consider what the State had to do post Brexit, for argument's...