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- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The targets that were set were baseline targets. Like last year, I would like our local authorities to exceed those targets. It is difficult to get an average processing time because we are dependent on conveyancing, in particular, how that works out, and how smoothly it works. I find with most that once the property has gone sale agreed, it secures the tenancy in the main. We have come...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one or two supplementary questions. To address the point the Minister raised, a family might be in a three-bedroom home but due to their circumstances, on a transfer, might be looking to go to a two-bedroom, or whatever the case may be. To clarify, the Minister is saying to local authorities that if somebody only qualifies for a two-bedroom home but is in situ in a three-bedroom...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: In support of the Deputy and the theme he is developing, is it possible to put together a bundle of opportunities that might be availed of by various families who are finding it difficult to get into the housing market? For instance, the first response in respect of the tenant in-situ scheme seems to be refusal. That creates a delay and does not solve the housing problem for the individual...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: On the ability of a local authority to breach the rent pressure zone rules, the ability to renegotiate a rent that breaches the rules is not there. As the Deputy knows, we are looking at that and at what will replace RPZs, which have been extended to the end of 2025. It will be a big job for the next government to look at what protections will be brought in in the future. It is...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Housing Schemes
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Niamh Smyth: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the Croí Cónaithe scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42643/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an overview of how many Croí Cónaithe applications have been made and processed in Cork city and county for 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42877/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties for which a vacant homes grant has been approved; the number of properties where a grant has been paid; whether he is concerned that the number of paid grants is much lower than the number approved even allowing a reasonable time to carry out the work; the steps he intends taking to deal with this...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether it is intended to change the terms and conditions of the vacant property refurbishment grant to extend the timeframe in which work has to be completed, taking into account the shortage of registered contractors available for such work and the knock-on delay caused by the Covid pandemic to building works in general;...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the latest figures for drawdowns by local authority area for the vacant property refurbishment and vacancy grants. [42864/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister for an overview of how many Croí Cónaithe applications have been made and processed in Cork city and county for 2023 and 2024.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 55 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Housing Provision
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Pauline Tully: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social and affordable houses that have been completed in Cavan and Monaghan during this Government's term of office and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42911/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Pauline Tully: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he plans to enable local authorities to accelerate the provision of housing in Cavan and Monaghan considering that the Housing Commission recently reported the need for additional local authority housing of between 12,000 and 15,000 homes by 2050 and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42912/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Pauline Tully: Will the Minister report on the number of social and affordable houses that have been completed in Cavan and Monaghan under this Government's mandate? Will he detail how he plans to enable local authorities to accelerate the provision of housing in Cavan and Monaghan considering that the Housing Commission recently reported the need for additional local housing of between 12,000 and 15,000...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 62 together. In Cavan, 309 social homes were delivered through build, acquisition and lease since the formation of the Government to the end of quarter two of 2024, of which 216 were new-build homes. During the same period, 41 affordable homes were delivered. In Monaghan, 485 social homes were delivered through build, acquisition and lease since the...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Pauline Tully: Could the Minister provide me with a bit more detail on affordable housing and how that was delivered? At my last meeting with Cavan County Council, my understanding was that it had not delivered any affordable housing? Does that mean it was done through the approved housing bodies or was it done by the council? I am not being critical of approved housing bodies, which do excellent work....
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: A total of 21 local authorities across the country have come forward with their own affordable housing schemes. We have other affordability measures. The Deputy mentioned the difficulties renters face in saving. That is why the help to buy grant is so critically important and applies to self-build homes as well. I know Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson is not here but that is a scheme...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Pauline Tully: I fully support the vacant property grant as does my party but we would change it. We would not scrap it as the Minister continually says. We would change it and make it better. The first home scheme drives up the price of housing. We know that. Perhaps my figures are incorrect but I believe that the tenant in situ scheme has only involved three properties in Cavan and five in Monaghan....