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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, overall. I do not have the final numbers on it but I believe we will exceed our cost-rental target this year.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking specifically about the CREL approved housing body cost-rental target. I would have thought a lot of that €225 million would be a mixture of construction sector inflation and the increase in the CREL to 55%.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: There will be. The increase in the CREL includes an increase in what we spend on it, but there is construction price inflation as well. On the approval of our schemes, we are looking in particular at cost containment as well, especially on the management costs of those. We have been very strict on that. Schemes have not been approved straight away but have been sent back in particular on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of the overall capital increase of €1 billion, some €200 million of that is not new money into the Department. It is the reversal of a temporary reallocation. Is it then the case that the other €800 million is all additional money coming into the Department, or is there other money that has been moved around programme level expenditure allocations?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is additional moneys. Deputy Ó Broin is correct about the €200 million that is a reallocation and is being moved back. The development levy waiver in particular and the Uisce Éireann connection charge were policy decisions the Government made after we settled our ceilings. They were additional, as was the expansion of the tenant in situ purchases. I got agreement at...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. I will ask my final two questions. There is a very big jump in LIHAF funding. Last year, only €20 million was spent on it and this year's allocation was €10 million. There is an extra €225 million in there. That is a very considerable change, and if there is any explanation for that, I would be interested in it. There were two areas of expenditure announced on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: There was a mistake there.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Likewise, with the disability and adaptation grants, there seemed to be a suggestion in the press conference that there was an extra €25 million, but the budget book across the two subheads was the same as last year, so it is just to clarify.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: With regard to the defects, the allocation is actually €100 million. That was actually a mistake in the booklet that was printed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It was corrected online as well. The same pertains to the disability and adaptation grants.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the extra €25 million that was announced at the press conference, is that for the disability adaptation or the wider adaptation grants?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will check that for the Deputy and I will come back to him during the course of this meeting.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am sorry, I can answer that now. It is the housing adaptation only. I knew it was €25 million but the Deputy is asking what it is-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it for the wider adaptation grants or the disability grants? There are two separate subheads. On the planning staff, there is an extra €8 million allocated in the budget for next year. Obviously, not all of that is for staff; there seem to be a couple of other things in a reply the Minister gave to a parliamentary question. What is the additional sanction for local authority...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have that and I will get it for the Deputy. I brought the planning resourcing update to Cabinet earlier this week.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, I saw that today.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will get the Deputy the exact figure on that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the LIHAFs, in a single sentence, is the very dramatic increase as a result of some of the LIHAFs that were stalled because the legal actions are now getting drawn down?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will come back to the Deputy.