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Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy mentioned the overall national figures. If we look at 2023, just short of 12,000 social homes were delivered. Of those, 8,110 were new-build social homes. That was the highest number in 50 years. Mainly through the tenantin situprogramme, we purchased 1,830 new homes, ended HAP tenancies and insecure tenancies and converted them to social housing tenancies. We delivered...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Housing Provision

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he is availing of modern housing production methods to facilitate the provision of additional supply of homes to the market in order to address the ever increasing demand arising from termination of tenancies or other factors which might make it difficult, or even impossible, for families to provide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain, for people who find themselves with warnings to exit their existing tenancies and have little or no time to make alternative arrangements, the extent to which private service sites might be utilised.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank Deputy Durkan. Modern methods of construction have been identified as a key measure to address the different housing needs in Ireland and methods to support the development of MMC in Ireland are set out in Housing for All plan. MMC is the term used to describe a range of manufacturing and innovative construction alternatives to traditional construction, including modular...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I had in mind the utilisation of modern construction methods to speed up, in the first case, the provision of houses, and the provision of housing for people who may find themselves, through no fault of their own, without a home and have no option except to consider making themselves homeless by leaving the house they are in, in which case they will not be considered by the local authorities,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank Deputy Durkan. To reinforce the significance of the accelerated social housing delivery programme, as I said previously we will see up to 1,500 new social homes commence during 2023 and 2024 utilising existing MMC design and build systems. Indeed, the 26 sites which received funding as part of the accelerated social housing delivery programme will see the delivery by 13 local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. I accept that the Government's plan for housing is working but unfortunately it is working too slowly. It is not working fast enough to be able to feed the market that is ever growing. That market is caused by, in some cases, tenancies being terminated by landlords for whatever reason. There is no blame on anybody but the tenants have been given a deadline. I am...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Dillon: Again, I thank the Deputy. We are making every effort possible to continue the momentum in boosting supply, not just in social but in the affordable housing space. We are supporting local authorities in how they can further deliver on their housing targets. We are increasing capacity within local authorities to initiate, design, plan, develop and manage housing projects. That is key on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed) (22 Oct 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Defective Building Materials

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what plans he has to make the defective homes redress scheme accessible for the difficult cases where it is more feasible to build a replacement home beside a defective property and then demolish rather than on the footprint of the damaged house, for example, with a house that has been adapted for a disabled child; and if he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: My apologies to Deputy Catherine Connolly who is substituting for Deputy Thomas Pringle. I should have called you before now-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There might have been some fault on our side. I understood it was done. It might have been belatedly.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The floor is yours.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy Pringle, who has followed up this issue at every available opportunity but just unfortunately cannot be here at this moment. My question is what plans the Minister has to make the defective homes redress scheme accessible for the difficult cases where it is more feasible to build a replacement home beside a defective property and then demolish...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta. As the Deputy is aware, the defective concrete blocks, DBC, grant scheme is neither a redress nor a compensation scheme, rather a grant scheme of last resort to enable affected homeowners to remediate homes. The scheme facilitates the remediation of existing houses that have been damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks. The construction of new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course, the big difference between our scheme and the Government's scheme is that in ours, the purchaser pays €250,000 and owns the home outright. Under the Government’s scheme, they will pay €550,000. The Minister still has not answered my simple question, which I will put again as plainly as I can. I suspect he knows the answer but does not have the courage to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The facts are, based on the returns received from local authorities for transactions completed this year, that the average upfront affordability purchase price paid by borrowers is €267,000 for a range of two-, three- and four-bedroom homes. Look at the difference between the scheme that is working on the ground and Sinn Féin's scheme, where purchasers do not even own the land...