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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...tenet of Government policy has been to provide the largest allocation in the history of the State to house construction. Capital housing funding of more than €4 billion will be provided in 2022. That is a fact. We are looking at providing 1,580 cost-rental homes next years by approved housing bodies, AHBs, local authorities and the Land Development Agency, LDA, at 25% below...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...we go back again, there is no guarantee of a conclusion. It could take another ten to 15 years. That is a realistic perspective on it. The key issue Deputy Conway-Walsh raised in terms of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme is provided for, as I understand it, in terms of people who are divorced or separated. I will come back to the Deputy on it but my understanding is that they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...s current focus is on the preparation of the new multi-annual housing for all strategy. Progress is also being made on legislation to increase the availability and supply of affordable, quality homes, including the Land Development Agency Bill and the Affordable Housing Bill. This is supported by the provision of over €3 billion for housing initiatives this year, which will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...availed of that. The scheme was a benefit to them, even though many in the House opposed it. Likewise, some €700 million is allocated in the budget to affordability measures such as cost rental homes, shared equity schemes, the Rebuilding Ireland home loans and so on. Extra funding has been allocated to the serviced sites fund, which will provide housing through the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...shortly. This will set out our approach to a jobs-rich recovery, with a focus on digitalisation and decarbonisation. The unit also leads work on the development of a well-being framework for Ireland. This seeks to move beyond using uniquely economic measures to gauge our progress as a country towards a more holistic approach that encompasses broader living standards. The housing,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...regular discussion of these matters at meetings of the Government. This is supported by the provision of over €3 billion for housing initiatives this year, including funding for 9,500 social homes to be built as part of the overall delivery of 12,750 social homes; €210 million for lending under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan; €88 million across the serviced sites...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...reason we put €150 million into the help-to-buy scheme which the Deputy refuses to support and which she attacks whenever she gets a chance. We want to give people support to enable them to buy homes. Approximately €760 million was provided in the budget for affordable housing, there was €110 million in new measures towards a shared equity scheme, €150 million...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: First of all, the Deputy is incorrect and is wrong. We know that Covid-19 has had a very significant impact on the housing situation in 2020. It is true that Rebuilding Ireland home loan approvals have been down this year because of Covid-19 and significantly so in quarters 1 and 2. The pandemic impacted significantly on the building sector because of the first lockdown, and that has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...houses. Supply is the key to the housing crisis. We know that over the past number of years there has been a crisis in housing supply and an issue in terms of affordability and the provision of social homes. That is why more than €3 billion was secured in the budget to provide the resources to get started on what will be the biggest social housing building programme in the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...for Public Expenditure and Reform are alive to it. There are challenges in regard to the PUP and the wage subsidy scheme because the issue of the security of jobs is a consideration. As for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme, I would like to think we could examine it in detail in terms of the potential of the individual to get over this hurdle in their current status, whether on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: In January 2018 the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, announced with great fanfare a Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme which would be available to all local authorities as a solution for many people who were not in a position to secure finance to purchase a home. As we learned quickly and anyone with a busy constituency office would know, the scheme...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: .... The fact that a deal is likely can be seen in the manner in which the Taoiseach has been trying to shift the ground from his claims last December and to broaden the focus beyond the supposedly "rock-solid" Northern Ireland backstop that both he and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, previously defined as the continuation of the status quoon both customs and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme's criteria to be altered or extended to allow applications from those that are not seen as first-time buyers due to having previously purchased a home, but due to separation or divorce have no entitlement to the first house and that have a housing need; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the number of applications that have been processed and approved under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme since it was launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16347/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to review the income thresholds under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme for couples (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16350/18]