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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is not working. The Minister needs to get his head out of the sand. It is a simple question.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are over time.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will he provide upfront costs as an immediate measure, which he was asked to do more than six months ago?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. The Minister to respond.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We have a number of staged payments through this scheme. What I was saying was that every scheme evolves, and we have evolved this scheme as it moves through on implementation.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is going backwards.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The figures show we have 1,970 applications to the new scheme. I have given the Deputy the figures with regard to homes under remediation. I want to see those figures increase. The proposal from the banks about 0% interest finance is with the Department of Finance. By the way, what has also been sought by the banks is a State guarantee on those loans. There can be ways to expedite the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Department of Finance told the Minister six months ago-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Sorry, we will absolutely-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It was six months ago.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Through the Chair, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We will absolutely continue to look at that. The work being done through the Housing Agency is very important in helping homeowners, first, apply to the scheme and, second, make sure the scheme works for them. When I inherited the scheme, it was a 90-10 model, with a grant amount of €247,000. It has been changed completely and we are seeing homeowners engage with it. Are there...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: How is it possible at a time of rising social housing output that homelessness is also rising? The answer is simple. The targets the Government has set in its plan are too low and it is not meeting those targets. The Minister is correct that just over 8,000 new-build social homes were delivered last year, which is 1,000 short of the Government's target. When you look at the total number...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I put it to the Deputy that many others would be in social homes right now if his party and colleagues had not continually objected to housing right across the country. The Deputy shares responsibility for that with Sinn Féin Deputies and councillors across the country. To be specific on exits, since 2022, some 5,524 adults were assisted to exit local authority emergency accommodation...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister's period of office comes to an end, he will be remembered for one thing and one thing only: presiding over the single largest increase in single, family and child homelessness in modern history. There is only one reason people become homeless: a failure of the State to ensure an adequate supply of social and affordable homes to meet the needs of households in crisis. In...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Right now, as I speak, approximately 26,000 social homes are at various different stages of construction in the pipeline. That is because the State, through Housing for All, has a multiannual, fully funded plan that will invest €5 billion in housing this year. Deputy Ó Broin likes to play ducks and drakes with facts. He knows that the reason social housing waiting lists have...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: And yet homelessness will rise.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----focusing on exiting people from homelessness, for which I have already given figures. We are already doing that. We will continue to do so during the course of this year. We are now seeing thousands of social homes and, more important, thousands of people getting their permanent, secure, social homes because of the measures-----