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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: 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.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: With the Chair's indulgence, is there any clarity on how what is currently not equity will become equity? I will ask counterparts that question in a few minutes when they take the hot seat. Has that issue been resolved or is it still under consideration?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: that is a terrible politician's answer to a tricky question.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, is the importance of that, that it speaks to the gearing issue Mr. O'Gorman spoke about, that is, it eases a bit of the borrowing?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: To add to that, I agree. For that to happen, there needs to be a single financing structure for all cost rentals. There are now three different financing structures between the AHBs, the local authorities and the LDA. There needs to be a single rent setting methodology. There are different rent setting methodologies within the witnesses' sector and again within the local authorities and...

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

Steven Matthews: Thank you, Deputy Ó Broin. I thank you all for your attendance here today. I found it very helpful. We will now suspend the meeting for five minutes to allow the witnesses to leave and to allow the witnesses for the next session to prepare.