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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I always speak through the Chair. Very clearly, with regard to exhausting other options that are available, if a tenant receives a notice to quit, there may be other options available and those should be looked at. It could be a social housing allocation, which happens in many instances. So far this year, 4,210 adult preventions and exits have been achieved. I want to talk about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The circular states that for acquisitions above the local authority allocation, plus 50%, advance approval will be needed to be obtained from the Department. That is in flat contradiction to what the Minister said. The cost-rental tenant in situ scheme was meant to be that the Housing Agency would purchase the property, sell it to an approved housing body and the rent would be reduced to a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is very good.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, they are not cost-rental tenancies. First, the Minister is restricting and causing further delays to tenants in situ for social housing. One year and a half in, the Minister is essentially admitting he got it wrong with the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme and is now trying to scramble to introduce amending legislation. What he has said is different from what is in the circular....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Before the Minister responds, there are supplementary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: With regard to the tenant in situ scheme, my experience with Clare County Council is that for most properties that are eligible, the council tells me that the homeowner is looking for more than the market value and so the council has not been very successful in this. This relates to a number of properties in County Clare. I will address a different aspect of the conversation. We have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: With regard to homelessness, there is a significant problem with vacant social homes being left empty for more that a year by some local authorities. The NOAC report that was just published shows that in the Galway City Council area it takes an average of 50 weeks to re-let an empty social home. In Limerick social homes are being left empty for more than a year. It is 62 weeks before they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Wynne asked about capital and the provision of funding to local authorities to continue the e tenant in situ scheme. That is in place. Deputy Ó Broin referred to a June circular. I wrote to the local authorities after that - in July last. I have said this in the House on a number of occasions and have engaged directly, as I do, with the chief executives and directors of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Marine Protected Areas (19 Sep 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I assure the Deputies that there is no lack of political will. It is our utmost priority. I appreciate the support from the committee and across the House. That is not to say there is any conflict between offshore renewables and marine biodiversity. As I said, the ecological sensitivity analyses have been conducted for the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. They will continue to inform...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Housing Schemes

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Robert Troy: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department continues to fund local authorities and the Housing Agency to acquire houses for tenants on a notice to quit and that no caps have been set for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36948/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Robert Troy: Will the Minister provide an update on the scheme he introduced, the tenant in situ notice-to-quit scheme? It is successful. Will he provide an update on how it continues to be rolled out through the Department to local authorities such that local authorities are in no doubt that this scheme will be well funded into the future?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Deputy for his question. Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new-build social homes in the period 2022 to 2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new-build projects delivered by local authorities and approved housing bodies. For 2023, the Government agreed increased provision for social housing acquisitions. This has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Robert Troy: As I said, it is a positive initiative and we are getting value for money because the State is no longer paying for RAS or HAP for the property; it is buying an asset. More importantly, it gives tenants certainty and ensures they have a forever home in areas in which they are part of their communities. I am worried about the guideline figure issued to councils and that councils need, for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Deputy for his positive feedback on the scheme. I re-emphasise that local authorities have been asked to focus on RAS and HAP properties where the tenant has been issued a notice of termination. There is no ceiling in the sanction of acquisitions. Properties already in social housing help to mitigate against the risk of a negative impact on the tenant in ensuring we can address...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Robert Troy: I should have said on the record that I am a landlord but I have not issued any notices to quit. Will the Minister of State clarify whether local authorities, once they meet the ceiling, need to come to the Department on a case-by-case basis for approval? Has guidance been issued by the Department about whether, where there is a link between the landlord and tenant regarding a family...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: I will talk to the Deputy about the case he mentioned offline. In July, the Minister wrote to local authorities about this matter. We worked closely with local authorities, which can be seen in the feedback. There is a cross-sectional team and steering group on acquisitions in place to support households and local authorities in acquisitions. Any request for additional acquisitions above...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Táimid ag bogadh ar aghaidh anois go dtí an chéad cheist eile. Tá Ceist Uimh. 58 in ainm an Teachta Eoin Ó Broin.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I beg your pardon. I completely forgot; I will break all the rules just for the moment because the fault is mine. I meant to let Deputy Durkan in on the last question. I am breaking the rules but I am at fault. Deputy Malcolm Noonan: I assure the Deputies that thyere is no lack of political will. It is our utomst priority. I appreciate the support from the committee and across the...