Results 701-720 of 1,036,092 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Niall Collins)
- 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-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Let me answer the question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: None of those are paying cost rents.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is in bad form today. I do not know why.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Housing Agency has not been able to sell any homes to approved housing bodies. Will the Minister explain that?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Please, Deputy. The time is running out and other Deputies want to come in.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will attempt to answer the question because I respect Members when they ask questions. They might respect that I always speak through the Chair.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputies should speak through the Chair. Time is running out.
- 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...