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- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: Deputy Ó Cuív took my second supplementary question. It related to bridging finance and whether any directions or guidelines have been issued by the Department or the Department of Finance to credit unions or other financial institutions in respect of the provision of bridging finance. This is a no-brainer. I would like it to happen. The urban-rural divide is obvious in...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: When people talk about reviews of schemes that are working, I always worry that someone will have a rush of blood to the head and suspend a particular scheme while a review is being carried out. This scheme is successful. Why break something that is working successfully? The Minister referred to approximately 10,000 applications. Allowing that some will be rejected, if 9,000 houses were...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
David Stanton: Local authorities can identify houses that are derelict and go down the compulsory purchase order, CPO, route. Does the Minister have any indication of how many houses might be eligible for the vacant property grant? Is there any link between what the local authorities are doing in identifying vacant properties and the vacant property tax, which might act as an incentive for people to avail...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: I will give the Minister one minute to answer the three questions.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: On bridging finance, the local authority home loan is useful. I meet representatives from the three main banks regularly. I have met representatives of PTSB, AIB and Bank of Ireland to discuss this matter. The retail banks are pushing towards the green mortgages, which would be ideal to lend on and provide bridging finance. The meetings I had with them were positive. I have not met the...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I assure Deputies that the review was sought by the three Ministers. Its purpose is not to stop this; I want to see it evolve, accelerate and improve in the future. It should be a mainstay from a climate perspective and from the perspective of urban and rural regeneration. I expect that we will come forward with some changes for above-the-shop accommodation very shortly.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. I have been very flexible
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I know.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Housing Provision
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can identify, through the various local authorities, suitably developed sites on which builders can be contracted to provide extra homes in the shortest possible time and utilising variations of housing proposals to achieve these, including modular homes and conventional methods, to provide houses for...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: The question adequately explains the situation I and several others are faced with. I compliment the Minister. He has shed some considerable light on a situation that annoys us from time to time. With particular reference to the tenant in situ scheme, my experience has been that the proposal is refused in the first instance, although the landlord is willing to sell and so on. In some...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Alan Dillon: On the tenant in situ scheme, as the Minister outlined earlier, it is a demand-led scheme. We have asked local authorities to bring forward potential properties under the scheme and also under the Department's social housing investment programme. We are making available to all local authorities and approved housing bodies funds to deliver new social housing in direct construction and in...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Questions Nos. 59 to 61, inclusive, taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 62 taken with Question No. 56.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 63 taken with Question No. 57.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Solar Energy Guidelines (22 Oct 2024)
Solar Energy Guidelines
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Solar Energy Guidelines (22 Oct 2024)
David Stanton: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce national guidelines to manage the development of large-scale solar farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41434/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Solar Energy Guidelines (22 Oct 2024)
David Stanton: This question relates to the possible need to introduce national guidelines to manage the development of large-scale solar farms. In my part of the country, we are seeing hundreds of acres being earmarked for solar farms. As the Tánaiste stated last week, we are talking about 40 shades of green turning into 40 shades of grey.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Solar Energy Guidelines (22 Oct 2024)
Alan Dillon: As with the vast majority of development types, there are currently no specific planning guidelines in place in respect of solar energy development. Proposals for individual solar energy developments are subject to the statutory requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, in the same manner as other proposed developments. Planning applications are made to the relevant...