Parliamentary questions

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

55. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in 2024. [24566/24]

Departmental Reports

Eoin Ó Broin

57. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a response to the report of the Housing Commission. [24567/24]

Homeless Persons Supports

Eoin Ó Broin

59. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he will take to address the rising levels of homelessness and in particular the unacceptably high levels of child homelessness. [24568/24]

Traveller Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

64. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation. [24288/24]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

1. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to explain why he missed all of his affordable housing targets in 2023. [15880/24]

Homeless Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

3. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what he intends to do to address rising levels of homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15881/24]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

5. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the growing concerns among impacted homeowners with the defective concrete block grant scheme. [15882/24]

Departmental Reports

Eoin Ó Broin

8. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing. [15610/24]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

15. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the cost rental tenant in situ scheme and the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. [15607/24]

Homeless Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

63. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional measures he plans to introduce in 2024 to address the deepening homelessness crisis. [7243/24]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

64. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered in 2023 via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan and the Land Development Agency's Project Tosaigh; and his views on the rising rents and house prices under these schemes. [7244/24]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

69. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on both the provision of emergency funding for multi-unit developments with building defects and the legislation to underpin the full defective buildings redress scheme. [6825/24]

Approved Housing Bodies

Eoin Ó Broin

1. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the details of the financial support package for a trust (details supplied) agreed at Cabinet last week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54356/23]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

3. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered via the Affordable Housing Fund, the Cost Rental Equity Loan and Project Tosaigh by the end of Q3 of this year; and to estimate the number of homes that will be delivered via these schemes by the end of the year. [54357/23]

Departmental Expenditure

Eoin Ó Broin

8. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to publish his Department's AEV and REV for 2023, including all of the individual spending programmes under each subhead, to publish the AEV for 2024 including all of the individual spending programmes under each subhead; and to give a commitment to publish the REV for 2024 when it is complete including all of the individual spending programmes under each subhead. [54147/23]

Fire Safety

Eoin Ó Broin

83. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an explanation for the ongoing delay in the provision of emergency funding for essential fire safety and other works for homeowners with Celtic Tiger-era building defects; and the reason for the delay with the drafting of the legislation underpinning the full redress scheme. [49143/23]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

85. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered by Q3 of 2023 by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the LDA under the affordable housing fund, the cost-rental equity loan and Project Tosaigh. [49144/23]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

87. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing; and when he intends to bring a memo to Cabinet on the issue of the referendum on the right to housing. [49145/23]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

74. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes he intends to deliver in 2023 and 2024 via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan, Project Tosaigh and Land Development Agency, LDA, direct delivery. [23808/23]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

76. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the redress scheme for defective buildings, including when emergency funding for interim measures will be available; and the timeline for the legislation underpinning the scheme. [23809/23]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

81. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the emergency measures he intends to introduce to increase and accelerate the supply of social and affordable housing in order to reduce rising levels of homelessness. [12086/23]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

83. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the promised building defects redress scheme and funding for interim measures and emergency works pending the opening of the full redress scheme. [12087/23]

Building Regulations

Eoin Ó Broin

85. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the review of Part B of the building regulations. [12136/23]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

81. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost-rental homes delivered through the cost-rental equity loan in 2022; the number of cost-rental homes delivered by the Land Development Agency in 2022; and the number of affordable purchase homes delivered through the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022. [3842/23]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

83. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the regulations for and the opening of the enhanced defective concrete block redress scheme. [3597/23]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

1. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the establishment of a redress scheme for homeowners and tenants living in buildings with fire safety and other building defects. [60043/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

2. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the emergency measures he is introducing during the winter ban on evictions to avoid a significant increase in homelessness when the ban ends on 1 April 2023. [60044/22]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

1. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for a redress scheme for homeowners impacted by Celtic tiger-era fire safety, water ingress and other structural defects. [47294/22]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

3. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that he has not raised all of the social housing eligibility income thresholds; and if he plans to do so. [47295/22]

Homeless Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

17. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the recent increase in homeless presentations and the numbers in emergency accommodation. [47284/22]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

1. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional measures he is taking to address the alarming increase in homelessness in recent months. [33472/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

3. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable housing in areas (details supplied). [33473/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

5. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the delay in the sale of affordable housing in Cork city and south County Dublin.
[33474/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

6. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the review of the social housing income thresholds; and if he will indicate whether he intends to raise the thresholds. [33082/22]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

51. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the March 2022 homelessness report of his Department. [22549/22]

Planning Issues

Eoin Ó Broin

52. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the terms of reference for his senior-counsel-led report on alleged conflicts of interest at An Bord Pleanála cover all three sets of issues now in the public domain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22550/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

109. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his response to the rising levels of homelessness and, in particular, the rising levels of family homelessness caused by an increase in vacant possession notices to quit and the collapse of homeless exits in the past 12 months. [12315/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

111. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way that the cost rental equity loan will deliver affordable cost rental homes in Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12316/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

113. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the purchase of 300 new homes, including houses and duplexes by a company (details supplied). [12317/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

119. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the ongoing delays in the development of social and affordable homes at a location (details supplied). [12046/22]

Construction Industry

Eoin Ó Broin

121. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his Department’s response to a report by an organisation (details supplied). [12050/22]

Rental Sector

Eoin Ó Broin

62. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he plans to take to slow down the disorderly exit of accidental and semi-professional landlords from the private rented sector and its impact on rising levels of homelessness. [3576/22]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

64. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the increased reliance on turnkeys by local authorities, approved housing bodies, the Land Development Agency and the Housing Agency for the delivery of social and affordable housing as outlined in the Government’s new housing plan will inflate the cost of social and affordable housing and will put those public agencies in direct competition with private purchasers for the limited supply of private homes. [3577/22]

Derelict Sites

Eoin Ó Broin

66. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, given his role in overseeing the vacant homes strategy, his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between derelict units recorded in the GeoDirectory residential buildings report and those on the derelict sites register nationally; if his attention has been further drawn to the lack of implementation and collection of the derelict sites levy; and the action being taken to combat same. [3578/22]

Real Estate Investment Trusts

Eoin Ó Broin

1. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to attend the proposed investor roadshows to attract large institutional investors into the Irish residential market; the number of these roadshows that are planned; the location and when they will take place; and the sort of investors he plans to meet if new incentives are being offered to these funds. [55415/21]

Planning Issues

Eoin Ó Broin

3. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will initiate a review of An Bord Pleanála in view of the recent High Court decisions against An Bord Pleanála with respect to the docklands strategic development zone to ensure its future decisions are consistent with the principles of good policymaking and democratic planning. [55416/21]

Derelict Sites

Eoin Ó Broin

5. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the support his Department is providing to local authorities in the collection of derelict site levies in view of the fact that less than 3% of possible revenue was collected in 2020 nationally. [55417/21]

Rental Sector

Eoin Ó Broin

88. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the changes he plans to make to the rent pressure zones if the harmonised index of consumer prices hits and breaches 4%. [46715/21]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

90. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is committed to introducing some form of redress mechanism for homeowners with defective homes in Budget 2022 arising out of the ongoing work of the independent working group examining the issue of defective housing. [46716/21]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

92. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason his Department is using the public spending code as an excuse for not directly funding Dublin City Council to develop the site at Oscar Traynor Road as a fully public housing development in the most cost-effective and affordable manner. [46717/21]