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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I will not ask the Minister to respond.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry about that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It was my fault.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Housing Schemes
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to halt and reverse the rise in homelessness. [37052/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will continue the conversation about the tenant in situ scheme because the information both the Minster and Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, have presented is not the same as the information given to local authorities in the circular of June this year. There is a cap - it is 50% above the targets that have been set for local authorities. Anything above the 50% cap must be submitted...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Which ones?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: For example, they tell us that the first instance focus on prevention and the requirement that all other options have to be exhausted will create further delays.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy will get a chance to come back in.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is hugely restrictive and it is a change.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The principle of the purchase of homes of tenants in situ is one that everybody in the House supports.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Last year, we bought 1,830 homes. The original target had been 200. It was reset to 1,500 and we increased it further. Deputy Troy, the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, and I met the chief executive of Westmeath County Council yesterday. For clarification, so that everyone is clear on this, there is no ceiling on the number of homes a local authority can purchase under the scheme...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What the Minister is saying is not the same as what is in the circular given to local authorities. For the sake of clarity, if a local authority has a target of 50 units, it can have a pipeline of 75 units without going back to the Department.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is stated in the circular. Every single property beyond those 75 units, no matter what it costs, has to go to the Department for individual sanction. That is what the circular says. That will take time and is causing problems. Second, the Minister introduced a new and much more restrictive set of criteria. One criterion is that all other options have to be exhausted before the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The cost-rental tenant in situ scheme is working very well and has been set up on an administrative basis.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It does not exist.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt the Deputy once. I ask him to let me answer. The cost-rental tenant in situ scheme does exist. It is administered by the Housing Agency and we have purchased more than 200 homes in that space already.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: None of those-----