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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Departmental Reports
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing. [15610/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I commend the Government side, particularly the diligent backbenchers, on making an incredibly unsuccessful scheme sound successful. Three grants being drawn down in Longford in a year and a half is not, by any normal definition, a success. There were only 100 across the State.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This scheme is good in principle but an absolute failure in practice. If the Minister wants to sell three drawdowns in a year and a half to his constituents as a success, far be it for me to get in his way. The Minister has had the report of the Housing Commission on the right to housing for almost a year. When will he publish it? More importantly, when will he act on it?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Unquestionably, the Croí Cónaithe grant scheme is working extremely well. The Deputy would also know that, because it is Exchequer funding, there have to be checks and balances on the payments of grants. I know Sinn Féin might play fast and loose with money from time to time but, in fairness, it is Exchequer funding and we have to be careful with it. The scheme has taken...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It seems to me that the Minister has left out a few crucial details. The first, of course, is that a memo was due to go to Cabinet on this matter last autumn. The Minister thought he was able to proceed to refer the report to the Oireachtas committee for its consideration. That was blocked by his Government partners and now the thing sits in abeyance. I obviously have not seen the report,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy has rightly mentioned there are two reports on this. There is the majority report and the minority report, both of which have to be considered together. I welcome that. It shows that the commission has done good work and there are different views on it. It is complex. We have seen with regard to Bunreacht na hÉireann that one must be extremely careful and respectful of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is interesting the Minister did not refute or contradict my suggestion that there was an intention to bring a memo to Cabinet last autumn but there was a-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No. I will do that when I come back in.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----disagreement between Government parties. If I am incorrect, I would like the Minister to put that clearly on the record. The problem is that this is another of those occasions where he makes it seem like he is doing something but where it appears that nothing is actually going to happen. I suspect what will happen is that eventually a memo will go to Cabinet, with both the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Joe Flaherty: To clarify for Deputy Ó Broin on Croí Cónaithe, if he is familiar with the workings of his scheme and how it assists in his constituency-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I allowed the Deputy in to ask a supplementary question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: God loves a trier.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Joe Flaherty: -----the average time is 13 months for the scheme. It would be extraordinary to have any more than four grants issued at this stage because, as the Minister rightly pointed out, there are checks and balances.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: A roaring success. Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I know Deputy Ó Broin is a master of the U-turn and will be doing a U-turn on this scheme.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (11 Apr 2024)
Vacant Properties
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Moynihan: 7. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the initiatives being taken to bring vacant properties back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15708/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (11 Apr 2024)
Martin Kenny: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide a breakdown of the number of Croí Cónaithe grants (including the vacant property refurbishment grant) paid out across Sligo and Leitrim since the beginning of the scheme. [15675/24]