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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Steven Matthews: There was a recent Government-produced report on the total costs in construction. We have also had good engagement with the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland which has been doing a series on costs in construction every couple of years. The costs in the two most recent reports seemed to align quite closely. Is the Housing Alliance in agreement that that is generally the cost of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The average cost per unit is €345,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is depending on the site. It could be much higher, as different sites incur different costs for preparation development, etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Steven Matthews: The figure we were seeing in those SCSI reports was approximately €400,000 and something for total cost of construction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was. The other report is on the unit-cost ceilings from the Department, which are not average costs. That is the upper limit to which one can go. It was poorly reported. It gave the impression that everything is costing at the upper end, whereas Mr. O’Gorman’s figures are similar to those of the local authorities. There is a range depending on delivery type, location and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Steven Matthews: This is a discussion for another day and I do not expect Mr. O'Gorman to be able to crack this nut today but most of us across the political spectrum are more or less in agreement on the number of housing units that need to be produced over the next number of years, whether new builds or refurbishments. How do we make something affordable that costs a lot of money to make? That is the crux...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Steven Matthews: Explain that to me. Both the gearing and changing the funding mix.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Steven Matthews: To go back to cost rentals, that is having an impact on the level at which the witnesses must set rent. Is the point that this is a more expensive model for the bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will leave the final slot to Deputy Ó Broin and we will finish in nine minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To go back to the Bill, the next thing I want to talk about is the allocations. My understanding of the Bill is that the Minister, by way of regulations, will set down the criteria against which allocations can be made. Individual cost-rental landlords will be able to apply either for the scheme or more generally, as to which of those they apply to that particular scheme. While the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Without putting words in Mr. O'Gorman's mouth would it be fair to say that whereas the definition of "households", was something the alliance was asking for, the current proposition around the allocations as set out in this Bill is not something that was initiated by the AHB sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the transfer issue, because that is a slightly separate issue, we are already beginning to encounter some people coming to us as constituency TDs and raising the issue about transfers within cost rental because their household composition or work location might have changed. Is that something the Housing Alliance welcomes or would be positive about engaging with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Might a mutual transfer system, for example, assist in that? If there were two tenants and one happened to be in Tuath and one in Clúid and income and household composition, etc., suited, do the witnesses think that would be operable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On delivery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My final question on the Bill is about the last bit of Part 3, which related to the tenant in situ. We know a small number of properties have been bought by the Housing Agency and a slightly larger number of properties are in train. None of the have been acquired by approved housing bodies, which was the original idea of the scheme. In some senses it is not unlike what was said about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask for one clarification. Ms McLoughlin gave a figure for projected cost-rental delivery next year in her opening statement. Will she give us the figure again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With regard the remaining figures for 2025, 2026 and 2027, is that just AHB delivery of cost rental? Just so I am clear about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will be 1,200 homes for 2025; 2,000 for 2026; and for 1,641 2027.