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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: That is exactly what the Government is doing. How are we going to get more companies involved in the building of homes if Deputies like Deputy Boyd Barrett always take the view that any private sector company getting involved in the delivery of building a new home is suspicious? The Deputy sees it like that. On the one hand, he is lamenting that we do not have larger companies involved in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not suspicious. I can just see the facts for myself, as can everyone else, including the builders. Even they are saying this. We cannot deliver the necessary housing. Cairn Homes has said it. Goodbody Stockbrokers have said it. Builders do not have the capacity. By the way, they are not in the business of producing subsidised housing. They do not do that. What they are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: This politics is performative for the Deputy. He knows our local authorities are building more homes. He knows more money is going into the local authorities to do this. He knows our delivery of social housing is increasing year after year. He is aware of the efforts being made, including in apprenticeship programmes, to make construction a more attractive career for people to go into....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister stated that local authorities are delivering more housing. No, they are not. They are not building anything at all. They are commissioning private construction. I accept that is better than doing nothing when we do not have the capacity, but they are not actually building anything themselves, given that the State does not have any capacity. I wish the Minister would not...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: We are clutching at straws here. The Deputy is acknowledging that local authorities are building more homes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I said they were not building.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Is the Deputy acknowledging that local-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They contract people to do it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I have tonnes of social houses in my constituency. They are run by Dublin City Council. It might matter to the Deputy whether the private sector is recruited by a local authority-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just said it was better than nothing.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: It might matter to the Deputy, but what about the person who is going into that home? We are trying to have a debate and I am giving the Deputy facts with which he is clearly uncomfortable. He does not like when I challenge the ideologies that he wraps around housing. If the local authority is using private plumbers and bricklayers and small to medium-sized construction companies to...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: There is no transparency around these contracts, even long after the deals have been signed, so we have to ask where the oversight and accountability are. When the Minister had this portfolio in 2017, the IMF recommended Ireland reduce the sums Departments could spend on PPP contracts. Departments are not supposed to spend more than 10% of the capital budget, as the Minister knows, on...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: From the information I have to hand, it does not appear to me that there has been a drastic use, or increase in the number, of PPPs. In the case of, for example, the social housing PPPs, across two different bundles they relate to 1,000 homes nationwide, which is a relatively small share of the total level of social housing that is being delivered. The majority of it is being delivered...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)
Question No. 47 replied to with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Flood Relief Schemes
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of the revised Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14382/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: My question is very specific and relates to the estimated cost of the revised Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme. Will the Minister of State make a statement on the matter?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: The catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, programme was the largest study of flood risk in the country, studying the flood risk for two thirds of the population. Following this CFRAM assessment and the proposal of options, Galway City Council appointed consultant engineers in November 2020 to design a detail option to protect the city from a significant flood event in the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I missed what the Minister of State said about the total cost.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I said €50 million.