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

Ivana Bacik: ...it is not working. We acknowledge there are aspects of Government policies which work. We welcome interventions that are effective. Across the Opposition, that is the case. We want to see the Land Development Agency become truly effective. We want to see developments, such as the hugely important development in Poolbeg, working and delivering. We want to see construction ramped up,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...looking to avail of schemes such as tenant in situ where they face eviction are becoming mired in paperwork and inactivity from local authorities. We are all hearing this. I appreciate that some work is being done and that bodies like the Land Development Agency are being better capitalised, but those agencies are still not delivering the homes people need. This Government is not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 1059: In page 570, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: "Entitlement to Compensation 389. A person from whom land is acquired pursuant to a compulsory purchase order to which this Part applies is entitled to be paid compensation in accordance with the subsequent provisions of this Part.". We have this large group of amendments. However, they all relate...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response and for providing some clarity on the publication of the proposed land value sharing and urban development zones Bill. We are conscious it has been long awaited. It is on this basis that we proceeded with these amendments. As I said, we had already produced a Bill that passed on Second Stage in the Dáil in June 2021 on this very...

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

Ivana Bacik: 410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an overview of the progress of the LDA's active sites and State lands with near-/medium-term development potential by the LDA; the forecast for the delivery of units by the LDA in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16622/24]

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

Ivana Bacik: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the completion of Action 38 of Housing for All; the relevant State lands which will be transferred to the LDA in 2024 and 2025 for housing delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (16 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for publishing legislation to give effect to the outcome of the Government's decision to increase funding to the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16656/24]

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

Ivana Bacik: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for publishing the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16665/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...to see this level of uncommenced planning permissions. There are multiple reasons for delays. When engaging with stakeholders, we hear about costs of construction and labour shortages. However, land speculation remains a key issue. Certainly in the Dáil Chamber, I have pointed out concerns around abuse of the planning system but where we continue to perpetuate this system of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...for local communities arises from vacant and derelict retail sites or community amenities that have been left vacant. Reducing the duration of planning permission and the period someone can sit on land where planning permission has been granted will have a positive impact on vacancy and dereliction, whether the planning permission has been granted for residential use or not. While I...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...housing, the civil rights issue of this generation, as I said this morning, there are several radical changes the Taoiseach could implement now to end no-fault evictions, regulate short-term lets, transform the Land Development Agency and move to deliver for the real level of need there, with 50,000 new homes and 50,000 deep retrofits each year. Second, the Taoiseach could make radical...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...generation and every community. On day one, the incoming Taoiseach should recognise that by committing to end no-fault evictions to make renters safe, by regulating short term lets, by transforming the Land Development Agency into a truly effective State construction company, and by delivering 50,000 new builds and 50,000 deep retrofits each year, with adequate provision within that of...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...Commission, while analysis last week shows over 18,000 entire homes for short-term rental on Airbnb compared with only 2,007 for longer term rental on Daft; further notes that: — tenants live in fear of receiving a notice to quit from their landlord, and there is provision for only 1,500 homes to be purchased under the Tenant-in-Situ Scheme, while only about 130 landlords are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...with the arbitrary deductions from workers wages and workplace practices. To return to the issue of Godart's treatment of his tenants, what is the Government going to do to ensure unscrupulous landlords like Godart will be made accountable and that there would be some comeback? Clearly, neither local authorities nor the Residential Tenancies Board currently have the power or capacity...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...we are facing because of the brutal war in Ukraine and the many wars and conflicts around the world which are forcing so many people to flee to our shores seeking refuge. We have always been a land of welcomes, from which so many of our own so-called unvetted males and females had to flee to find a better life in England, Australia, America and elsewhere. We know the Irish diaspora now...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 319. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proceeds of the vacant homes tax and residential zoned land tax respectively will be retained centrally by the Exchequer or returned to the relevant local authority where it was raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56679/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the news that up to 3,000 homes will be provided by Respond, which will be cost rental and social homes. That is welcome, but we know the Land Development Agency must be scaled up if we are to see the level of social and affordable home building that we need. I ask again for a debate in this House for a debate on the level of funding to be provided to the Land Development Agency....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...reduce our consumption of dirty fossil fuels. We must phase them out altogether. While events like COP are important, we need to be judged by our actions and not just our words. As Dr. Cara Augustenborg points out in The Irish Timestoday, Ireland is relatively well placed to make the transition on climate compared with other countries. We are not reliant on oil or coal exports, and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (12 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how, and to what extent, the Land Development Agency will be funded in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55315/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (6 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the revenue raised in 2022 by derelict sites levy payments for publicly owned land. [54123/23]