Housing (Houses of the Oireachtas)

Housing - Data - issues relating to

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the expected residential population to be developed in each of the SDZs in the country. [Q. No(s) 272 to Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government ]

Housing - Data - issues relating to

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers] A maximum total of 39,450 housing units, as set out in the table, is capable of being delivered across the Strategic Development Zones designated by Government, as per the statutory Planning Schemes associated with each SDZ. On the basis of an average of 2.5 persons per dwelling, ...

Housing - Local infrastructure housing activation fund - issues relating to

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if funding will be made available through the LIHAF from budget 2018 to progress the port access northern cross route project in Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 280 to Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government ]

Housing - Local infrastructure housing activation fund - issues relating to

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers] A LIHAF call for proposals was issued to all local authorities in August 2016. It was open to all local authorities to apply for funding towards the capital cost of public infrastructure, which, when provided, would secure the early delivery of additional housing at considerable sc...

Housing - Provision - issues relating to

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the proposed housing developments in the Drogheda and environ area that his department is in active discussions on; the number of social houses the developments hope to deliver; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 281 to Minister for Hous...

Housing - Provision - issues relating to

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers] Rebuilding Ireland has put in place the funding resources to accelerate the delivery of social housing for all local authorities. Critically, €5.35 billion in exchequer investment has been secured to support its implementation and to deliver 47,000 social housing units through buil...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This is my seventh or eighth time addressing the House in the five weeks since we returned after the summer break and I have yet to see the so-called Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy.[Wallace, Mi...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I am sorry to disappoint the Deputy.[English, Damien]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I wish no disrespect to the Minister of State who is present. I have had a few conversations with him about housing and he has earned my respect. This is a very problematic area. The problems are not easily fixed but sadly they have got worse in the six and a half years since I h...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] It is not.[English, Damien]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] Hold on a minute. It sold 3,800 sites in Cherrywood for €27,000 each to Hines, a vulture fund, which is now selling them for more than €100,000 each. Explain how this makes sense to the Irish people, NAMA selling 3,800 sites in Cherrywood for €27,000 each and now Hines is selling ...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] To be very clear to the House, what I have outlined here is State land, that the State owns and that we will use to deliver social and affordable housing as well as allowing for private housing in order that we get a combination of houses and provide housing for all the different ne...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] It is State land, please. It belongs to the State.[Wallace, Mick]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] NAMA has a duty to the debtors, with which it works, to try to maximise the return to those debtors, because most of those guys have debts that they owe and they have to be paid back. We work with NAMA on key sites and we will use NAMA's skills, but there is a difference in the Sta...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I want a long-term project or a long-term vision.[Wallace, Mick]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] If the Deputy takes the time to read the plan, he would see there is a commitment of €6 billion for social housing.[English, Damien]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] Fine Gael and the Labour Party did away with the social housing scheme.[Wallace, Mick]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I thank Deputy Mick Wallace for raising the issue of housing and the question of State land. He might not realise it but we are actually on the same page on much of this. People seem to keep missing that. Himself and many others who are not in government keep mentioning this magi...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] The Minister of State says that we are on the same wavelength but that is not true. Myself and Deputy Bernard J. Durkan, who is also in the Chamber, were on the Committee on Housing and Homelessness last summer. The Government has ignored most of its recommendations.[Wallace, Mick...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] We have not.[English, Damien]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I am sorry but the Government has. This week the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice - I am talking about people like Fr. Peter McVerry, Ms Margaret Burns, Dr. P.J. Drudy who know a lot about housing -----[Wallace, Mick]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] Do they?[English, Damien]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] -----said that we need to reverse the policy pursued by successive Governments of relying to an ever increasing extent on rent supplementation of different kinds as a way of meeting long-term social housing need. We are discussing 10,000 units but the Government still does not want...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] That is where we are going. Which bit does the Deputy not understand?[English, Damien]

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Topical Issues] Hold on, I did not interrupt. In Wexford this year, three local authority houses will be built. That is three, with a waiting list of 3,700. The Minister of State needs to give us a break. It is nonsense. The Government is still totally dependent on the private market to delive...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Cork county council is in breach of housing policy by not advertising a recent housing allocation through the choice base letting scheme at a location (details supplied). [Q. No(s) 275 to Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Go...

Housing - Social and affordable housing - provision

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers] The allocation of social housing support is a matter for the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations. Section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 requires all housing authorities, as a ...

Housing - Vacant properties - issues relating to

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the steps his department is taking in collaboration with Dublin city council and the three county councils to get the 40,000 vacant homes in Dublin back into use (details supplied). [Q. No(s) 278 to Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government ]

Housing - Vacant properties - issues relating to

Sitting date: 19/10/2017
[Written Answers] I wrote to the Chief Executives of all local authorities on 2 August 2017, requesting them to commence the drawing up of Vacant Homes Action Plans for their functional areas and to set ambitious but realistic targets of the number of vacant homes that can be brought back into use, ...

Housing - Help-to-buy scheme - eligibility

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Written Answers]...his views on whether land which has been purchased for commercial agriculture use and which was never used to live in should affect families eligibility to qualify for first time buyers relief on a primary principal residence they now wish to buy as their home; and if he will mak...