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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: However, it is the future intentions that I am trying to get my head around because I am not aware of that principle operating anywhere in social housing assessments. What is the position if someone says his or her intention is to live for the longer term in the State, for example? It seems to be a very subjective assessment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: But the one I have referred to is the one I am querying. That is the one I do not understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: In the case of those who apply for social housing, we do not attempt to establish their future intentions. That is not part of the current assessment for anybody. I am trying to understand what future intentions entail and how they will be assessed. Will the measure apply to all new applicants or only EEA applicants? That is what I am unclear on. I will contribute again in the next round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank our guests for their responses so far. Let us look specifically at head 5, new section 20A(1) opens with the words "In order to be eligible to be assessed". That gives the impression there is now two phases to the assessment. The first one is a residency assessment. If one makes it through the residency assessment, depending on which category, of which there are more than five...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, that is assessed first and if one falls foul of that then the rest does not proceed. Am I right in my reading of the criteria set out here that if one is an EU or EEA citizen, with lawful and habitual residency, then after three months one would satisfy the long-term interest but for non-EEA citizens it is a five-year period of, as it says, "reckonable residency"? Am I right to read...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, and there are the exclusions from paragraphs (d) to (j)-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----capture the people who have been through the international protection system or programme refugees. Other than those people, because there are special conditions for folks who have been through international protection applications or are programme refugees but for others there is a five-year rule being imposed here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Do our guests accept that social housing support and citizenship are two very different things and should not necessarily have the same reckonable residency eligibility criteria?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Under new section 20A(3), I could have a legal right to long term reside in the State but I would not have a five-year reckonable residency. Therefore, even though I have a legal right to reside long term, and it is my intention to remain here, I could be deemed to fall foul of the reckonable residency requirement of five years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: In that sense, simply, if I have the legal entitlement to reside for five years or more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, because I have got the two years. I either must have a legal right to reside here for five years in total or I have to have been residing for five years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is it the view that there is a cohort of people who currently have a social housing eligibility but were these rules in a place at an earlier stage ,they would not do? I will put my question another way. There is a group of people who, when these rules apply, or when this law is passed and these rules apply, a group of people who previously would have been deemed eligible for social housing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I get that. Is there a concern that a group of people who, because of the weaker nature of the circular are securing a right to social housing support, would be denied access to social housing support were it on a firmer statutory basis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am talking about future applicants. Is part of the intention here to limit the capacity to grant social housing support to new applicants whereby those people, if this legislation was not introduced, may secure social housing supports because of the non-primary legislative basis of the rules?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Kelly think this will work exactly the same as the current circular?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: To pick up on that point, the most recent report gave a figure of approximately 40% of households in emergency accommodation being from EU-EEA or non-EU-EEA third countries. It is approximately the same percentage as the CSO figure of households living in the private rental sector headed by somebody not born on the island of Ireland, which probably makes sense. The 25% figure is really...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Therefore, that in and of itself would not be a legitimate ground for a local authority to refuse somebody emergency accommodation, if it was available.