You can watch the launch of the Housing Committee report live

John Curran TD Chairman :

70-80 recommendations over 8 different areas

50,000 social housing units to be constructed or acquired over next 5 years.

Preventing people becoming homeless a priority
  • Rent certainty
  • rent supplement should be brought to market value
Lack of infrastructure in Dublin - should be fast tracked to facilitate 50,000 houses

Vacant site levy should be increased and brought

Mortgage distress
A moratorium on home repossessions while waiting for new guidelines from Programme for Government brought in.

Vacant properties - over 200,000 vacant units
A full audit by each council should be implemented.

Should look at off balance sheet models to fund building of houses
other proposals such as Credit Unions
 
Micheal Lehane : What are the key recommendations - the minimum recommendations

REply: prevention of people losing their homes. Rent certainty, distressed mortgages

Journo: The local authorities were not spending the money allocated for housing?

O'Broin: If there is a problem getting the funding of €1.5 billion -

There are 23 Priority Recommendations

Labour TD - preventing repossessions

Fergus O'Dowd : landlords who ruthlessly exploit the 4 month rule. Vacant possession should never be a condition of sale.

Barry Cowen: Set up a housing procurement agency - fund whatever way is needed - credit unions; pension funds,

The other blockage is planning. The system was not designed during a housing crisis
 
Kitty Holland : Is it ambitious enough?

Eoin O'Broin: We are proposing building 10,000 houses a year for 5 years which is more than has ever been built in the history of the state.

Mary Butler: We could have gone for any figure but there is no point in being unrealistic

Journo: the councils are not drawing down their funds for traveler accommodation. Should they be sanctioned?
 
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