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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: In response to an earlier question, the Minister made a comment about bringing forward solutions. We can come in here and fight every week - we could fight for the next five years - but we have taken the decision to come in and try to work with the Government and bring forward solutions. Three weeks ago, I brought forward a solution. While it will not fix the housing crisis, it would bring...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The Deputy's proposal a number of weeks ago was simply to write blank cheques for local authorities. That is not a solution. We have to manage our finances and we have only a certain amount of funding. We want those voids brought back in but, as the Deputy will recall, one of the properties was a property that could not be let because it had not had a stairs for five years. There is no...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister talks about local authorities delivering on target and delivering social housing and cost-rental and affordable housing. Cork City Council is probably one of the best locals authorities in the State for delivering social and cost-rental and affordable housing, and yet the housing list goes up. It is because the Minister's Government has set targets so low that even when local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I am treating it as an emergency. The number seeking social housing is increasing, as it is for cost-rental and affordable and private housing, because the population of this country is exploding as a result of the successful economic steerage of this country. It is a good thing that our population is increasing as a result of our economy. It puts more pressure on me and the Government to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Local Authorities

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has plans to increase local government funding in areas of rapid population growth, such as Kildare north, to meet its demands, as it directly affects the levels of service provisions that can be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35893/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: My question for the Minister of State today is on behalf of the people of north Kildare, and indeed the entire county of Kildare. What plans does the Department have to increase local government funding to County Kildare, considering its rapid population growth, to meet its demands? The demands of the people there have been directly affected by the decrease in the provision of services.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

John Cummins: I thank Deputy Neville for raising this matter, as he regularly does in this Chamber . His advocacy for Kildare is certainly well noted. As he will be aware, I was in Kildare last Thursday, when I visited the local authority and engaged with the executive team. Much of what the Deputy has raised here in his question was the subject of the discussion we had. The system of funding of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the Minister of State. The simple fact is that the population of Kildare has increased by 50% in the last 20 years. Although the State has grown, Kildare and especially north Kildare has outpaced that and grown rapidly. Unfortunately, the delivery of funding to the local government in Kildare, Kildare County Council, has not been kept at the same pace. That means we do not have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

John Cummins: It is the case that, through a decision made in Cabinet today on the LPT model, there will be a significant increase in LPT for Kildare County Council as part of its 2026 figures. That will be made up from an increase in the baseline figures but also from the retention element moving from 22.5% to 31%. It means that Kildare County Council will have an additional €4.9 million in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10 and 36 together. The drafting of the apartment and duplex defects remediation Bill is progressing. Various issues requiring legal advice are under consideration. The Bill is included in the Government legislation summer programme and I intend to seek Government approval to publish it shortly. The general scheme will be made available to undergo...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Minister. There are three real elements here. There is the statutory scheme, which will look after fire safety, structural issues and water ingress. The interim remediation scheme is solely for fire safety works. We then have the pathfinder projects, which are under way and are probably a subcategory of the interim remediation scheme. Has any money been paid out under the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: We know this is a crucially important matter, given that defects were first detected in 2011. The scheme is intended to cover apartments and duplexes built between 1991 and 2013. I accept that an interim remediation scheme was introduced, but this was for the first of the fire safety defects, which still leaves thousands of apartments in need of remedial works. Families are being raised in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The aim is to get the work done as quickly as possible. Regarding the interim scheme, four pathfinder projects covering almost 600 residential units have been identified. These projects are progressing and will allow the mapping of the application of the remediation process into simple steps to identify the pinch points and their solutions and to provide consistency across the submissions...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I appreciate the Minister's offer of a briefing. I will certainly take him up on that because residents are really worried. They are getting this information from their management company, which says there is a blockage. The Minister made a number of comments that if any of them are listening will probably make them even more nervous in terms of delay. There needs to be clarity. I accept...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: It was recently reported in the media that the remediation scheme will not come into effect until 2027. Will he give an assurance that this is not the case and that the scheme will actually commence in 2026? We cannot have a repeat of the defective blocks scheme fiasco, the details of which we do not need to go into. Will he guarantee there will be 100% redress for all apartment and duplex...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I acknowledge that there has been some delay with the drafting. Some of that has arisen as a result of the Housing Agency receiving legal advice outlining the provision of the funding by the agency to oversee it is likely to trigger a requirement to comply with public procurement law. The Attorney General subsequently confirmed the need to align the application process in compliance with EU...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Housing Policy

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a date for when his revised housing plan will be completed and published. [35826/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The programme for Government commits to the introduction of a new, all-of-government national housing plan to follow Housing for All, underpinned by multi-annual funding. This plan will take a whole-of-government approach, as Housing for All did. My Department is engaging across government to agree the high-level measures to be included in the plan. They must be supported by the required...