Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 May 2016
122. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the membership of the social housing strategy oversight group; the number of meetings it has held since it was established; and to provide the Houses of Oireachtas, with copies of the minutes of its meetings. [9233/16]
View answer123. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the membership of the Dublin social housing delivery taskforce; the number of meetings it has held since it was established; and to provide the Houses of the Oireachtas, with copies of the minutes of its meetings. [9234/16]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 122 and 123 together.
The Social Housing Strategy 2020, published in November 2014, targets the provision of over 110,000 social housing units, through the delivery of 35,000 new social housing units and meeting the housing needs of some 75,000 households mainly through the Housing Assistance Payment. The Strategy is available on my Department’s website at the following link:
http://www.environ.ie/sites/default/files/publications/files/social_strategy_document_20141126.pdf.
The Strategy contains a robust governance and implementation framework and provides for a strong focus on on-going monitoring and review which will drive delivery, reform and policy development during its lifetime. The Governance structure is set out in Chapter 7.
In that regard, I, along with my colleague Minister of State Paudie Coffey, have co-chaired the high-level Oversight Group, which is made up of key stakeholders, to drive the Strategy’s overall implementation. There have been nine meetings of the Oversight Group since the publication of the Social Housing Strategy 2020 in November 2014.
Membership of the Oversight Group is set out in the following table:
|
Minister Alan Kelly T.D. |
Co-Chair |
Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government |
|
Minister of State Paudie Coffey |
Co-Chair |
Minister of State at the Department of the Environment with Special Responsibility for Housing, Planning and Coordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy |
|
Mr. John McCarthy |
Secretary General |
Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government |
|
Ms Bairbre Nic Aongusa |
Assistant Secretary/Chair of the Social Housing Strategy Project Board |
Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government |
|
Ms Helen Faughnan |
Assistant Secretary |
Department of Social Protection |
|
Ms Patricia Coleman |
Assistant Secretary |
Department of Public Expenditure & Reform |
|
Mr. John McCarthy |
Chief Economist |
Department of Finance |
|
Mr. Padraig Ó Conaill |
Principal Officer |
Department of Social Protection |
|
Mr. Daniel McLoughlin |
Chief Executive/Chair of the Dublin Social Housing Delivery Taskforce |
South Dublin County Council |
|
Mr. Pat Gallagher |
Chief Executive/Chair of County & City Management Association |
Westmeath County Council |
|
Mr. Eugene Cummins |
Chief Executive/Chair of County & City Management Association, Housing Committee |
Roscommon County Council |
|
Dr. Donal McManus |
Chief Executive Officer |
Irish Council for Social Housing |
|
Mr. Kieron Brennan |
Chief Executive Officer |
Co-operative Housing Ireland |
|
Dr. Rory O'Donnell |
Director |
National Economic & Social Council |
Given the scale of the challenge in the Dublin area, a key early action of the Strategy was the establishment of a Dublin Social Housing Delivery Taskforce (DSHDT), to oversee and drive the Strategy’s implementation across the four Dublin local authorities.
Full details regarding the Taskforce’s role and its terms of reference are set out at paragraph 4.3 of the Strategy. There have been fourteen meetings of the Taskforce since the publication of the Social Housing Strategy 2020 in November 2014.
Membership of the Taskforce is set out in the following table:
|
Mr. Daniel McLoughlin (Chair) |
Chief Executive |
South Dublin County Council |
|
Mr. Owen Keegan |
Chief Executive |
Dublin City Council |
|
Mr. Paul Reid |
Chief Executive |
Fingal County Council |
|
Ms Philomena Poole |
Chief Executive |
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council |
|
Ms Bairbre Nic Aongusa |
Assistant Secretary/Chair of the Social Housing Strategy Project Board |
Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government |
|
Mr. John O'Connor |
Chief Executive |
Housing Agency |
|
Mr. Geoff Corcoran |
Director of Development |
Co-operative Housing Ireland |
|
Mr. Donal McManus |
Chief Executive Officer |
Irish Council for Social Housing |
Minutes of the meetings of the Social Housing Strategy Oversight Group, the Dublin Social Housing Delivery Taskforce and the Social Housing Strategy Project Board are available on my Department’s website at the following link: http://www.environ.ie/search/archived/current/sub-type/minutes-meeting?query=Social%20Housing%20Strategy.
