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

Catherine Connolly: I do not want any more of this misunderstanding. It is side-by-side.

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

Malcolm Noonan: If the Deputy will furnish the details to the Department, we will look at it. That is the best way I can respond at this stage. As the Deputy said, there are serious considerations. No two cases are alike. Again, we would appreciate it if the Deputy could provide the details and we can then give consideration to it.

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

Catherine Connolly: I am sure Deputy Pringle will do that.

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

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

Housing Provision

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

Violet-Anne Wynne: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on revised social housing targets in Clare; the progress on the target of 153 new social homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42931/24]

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

Violet-Anne Wynne: I ask the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on revised social housing targets in Clare; the progress on the target of 153 new social homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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

Darragh O'Brien: The research published in July by the ESRI on population growth and structural housing demand to 2040 provides a credible evidence base for the development of revised housing targets by my Department. Officials in my Department have considered the implications of the ESRI research and estimated the level of unmet demand for the revised housing targets. They have also considered other policy...

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

Violet-Anne Wynne: The ESRI research is noteworthy and it is positive that work is ongoing. However, I must refer to the low number of social housing homes delivered in County Clare since 2016, namely, zero in 2016 and 2017; two in 2018; 25 the following year; 34 the year after that; 55 in 2021; and it then jumped to 184 in 2022. According to the statistics on the Department's website, there were only 31 last...

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

Darragh O'Brien: As the Deputy knows, I have been to Clare a number of times. The housing team in Clare are doing a very good job. Some homes are delivered directly by the local authority and some through approved housing bodies, and a combination of repair and lease is also bringing older buildings back into use. The years 2020 and 2021 were constrained due to the construction shutdowns during Covid,...

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

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate that it is increasing year-on-year but over 40,000 people are accessing emergency accommodation, and that does not account for everyone who is homeless currently. That is 2,099 families and 4,419 children, which is an increase of 14% from last year. In one year, from August of last year to this year, 1,795 additional people entered emergency accommodation. We know the Simon...

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...