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BRENDAN RYAN TD KEEPING IN TOUCH Spring 2015
MESSAGE FROM BRENDAN As Chair of the Internal Labour Committee on Housing, tackling the crisis in that sector is a top priority. I welcome Minister Kelly's long term plan to resolve the Housing crisis and the first return to direct public provision of social housing since the last time Labour were in Government in the mid 1990s. As we move towards economic recovery and get people back to work, we need to ensure the most vulnerable in society have access to secure housing. As the first social housing units are being built in Fingal (in Swords and Balrothery) in over 15 years, we can begin to see progress being made.
LABOUR MINISTER LAUNCHES €3.8 BN HOUSING PACKAGE Labour Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly, announced a €3.8 billion social housing package in November. One of the main priorities for Labour in Government is to address the challenge of providing social housing for the people of this country; this strategy sets out how this priority will be achieved. The Social Housing Social Strategy 2020 includes:
■ Supplying 35,000 additional social housing units at a cost of €3.8 billion over the next 6 years;
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■ Estimated 29,000 Jobs in construction and promotion of
In January, Brendan called for the Fair Deal nursing home scheme to be demand led and for a proper plan to be put in place to deliver long term nursing home places. Minister Kathleen Lynch has since echoed this in the media. I am looking to pursue this matter to ensure a proper plan is in place before the end of the term of this Government in 2016. In February, Brendan raised the need to reclassify schools in order to allow more schools receive DEIS supports. The DEIS scheme tackles disadvantaged schools and has been in operation for 10 years. The economic crisis has recast what is categorised as deprivation and disadvantage and has broadened it from the more traditional definitions. Minister for Education Jan O'Sullivan in her response to me has indicated she will begin this process in the near future.
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■ Meeting the housing needs of some 75,000 households through local authority provision via the private rented sector using Housing Assistance Payment and Rental Accommodation Scheme;
■ Reforming social housing delivery and management in Ireland; ■ Establishing the Dublin Social Housing Delivery Taskforce, to respond to the current supply difficulties and focus on the delivery of social housing in the Dublin area;
■ Sets out road map to accommodate everyone on the Housing Waiting Lists by 2020 (90,000 households). If you would like Brendan to post you a copy of the Social Housing Strategy 2020, you can send him an email at bren.ryan@oir.ie.
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