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2025-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Paul Benson (Acting Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Aine Stapleton (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Caroline Timmons (Acting Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: To address the current issues and risks being experienced in relation to the above models in order to address them in new models going forward and therefore enable AHB's to deliver social and affordable housing at scale and to create and maintain vibrant communities for all.
Methods: Meeting, Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Respond’s construction led model |
| — | Funding of Construction Risk |
| — | Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS)/ Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) properties |
| — | Communal Facilities and staffing |
| — | Capital Advanced Leasing Facility (CALF) funding |
| — | Cost Rental Equity Loan (CREL) funding |
2025-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Michael Moynihan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: It would open up the cost rental affordability scheme to this cohort of applicants who are above the social housing limit but not eligible for the current cost rental model as they are below the current threshold. Another potential benefit to the Exchequer would be the possibility of taking some degree of pressure off the social housing lists which are so heavily subsidised.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | There is a housing affordability gap between those who qualify for social housing and those who can afford to access cost rental. Even though the rent levels under the current cost rental scheme are 25-30% below market rents they are still outside the reach of people who are on modest incomes but above the social housing list limits. Consideration needs to be given to revising the financial model for cost rental available to Approved Housing Bodies and other state agencies. |
2025-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Lawless (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paschal Donohoe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Helen McEntee (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aine Stapleton (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Jack Chambers (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: For AHB's be included in the programme for government as one of the key delivery channels for social and affordable housing as part of the overall Housing For All programme.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 3.Construction Specific Funding Model: This would address issues of viability including funding construction interest payments |
| — | resulting debt service cover ratio dilution |
| — | risk/benefit sharing. The model could also include a mechanism to reflect payment of management costs that are applicable on date of completion of housing schemes. |
2025-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Lawless (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paschal Donohoe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Helen McEntee (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aine Stapleton (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Jack Chambers (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: For AHB's be included in the programme for government as one of the key delivery channels for social and affordable housing as part of the overall Housing For All programme.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 1. Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) should be nominated in the Programme as one of the key delivery channels for social and affordable homes. 2.AHBs require a sustainable funding regime with a particular focus on a part-grant model for social and cost rental homes. |
2024-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Kevin Dillon (Special Adviser), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: To ensure Respond can make a significant contribution to constructing and providing as many homes/communities to the homeless, reduce local authority waiting lists and provide affordable/cost rental to those who don't qualify for social housing.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Large Scale Development Tenure Schemes |
| — | social and cost rental homes and necessary supports |
| — | contingencies |
| — | risks and protocol/s |
2024-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Paul Benson (Acting Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Francis Noel Duffy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Fitzpatrick (Senator), Seanad; Mary Seery Kearney (Senator), Seanad; John Cummins (Senator), Seanad; Thomas Gould (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard O'Donoghue (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Flaherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Creed (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul McAuliffe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Steven Matthews (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cian O'Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoin Ó Broin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ged Nash (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rebecca Moynihan (Senator), Seanad; Rónán Hession (Assistant Secretary), Department of Social Protection; John McKeon (Secretary General), Department of Social Protection; Anne Marie Brooks (Assistant Secretary), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Kevin McCarthy (Secretary General), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Michael McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael J. McGrath (Assistant Secretary), Department of Finance; Caroline Timmons (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Aine Stapleton (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; John Hogan (Secretary General), Department of Finance; Joe O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Heather Humphreys (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Tom Sheppard (Special Adviser), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paschal Donohoe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Neale Richmond (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jack Chambers (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kevin Dillon (Special Adviser), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Darragh O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: A sustainable supply of social and cost rental homes, maintaining quality homes and services, investing in communities and pursuing social justice for all.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Pre Budget Submission on Housing |
| — | Delivering social and cost rental homes |
| — | Retrofitting social and affordable homes |
| — | Quality homes and services |
| — | Family Homelessness |
| — | Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Care (SAC) |
2024-05-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Aine Stapleton (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Caroline Timmons (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: Delivery of large scale developments incorporating community facilities, tenant engagement, increased tenant satisfaction, reduced Anti-Social Behaviour, building vibrant communities and AHB contribution towards achievement of housing for all targets.
Methods: Meeting, Email, Phone call
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Social and Cost Rental Housing Delivery in relation to proposed large scale developments to be undertaken by Respond |
| — | the Respond Construction Model |
| — | Social & CREL 100% Funding Model |
| — | Risk Protocol |
| — | Tenancy Management |
| — | Additional Community Facilities |
| — | Economic |
| — | Financial and Developer Risk. |
2024-01-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Eoin Ó Broin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Darragh O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Caroline Timmons (Acting Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Aine Stapleton (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Kevin Dillon (Special Adviser), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Ciara Shaughnessy (Special Adviser), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: To increase the supply of social and cost rental delivery as well as sustainable communities by Respond from 2024 to 2026 in line with its strategic plan.
Methods: Meeting, Letter, Phone call
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The viability of CALF and CREL models specifically to deliver large scale developments given the urgent need to deliver social and affordable homes for families and individuals who need them and the importance of developing sustainable communities with the supports for diversity and inclusion |
| — | as required. |
2023-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Kevin McCarthy (Secretary General), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Anne Marie Brooks (Assistant Secretary), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; John McKeon (Secretary General), Department of Social Protection; Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Tom Sheppard (Special Adviser), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Heather Humphreys (Minister), Department of Social Protection; Joe O'Brien (Minister of State), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Rónán Hession (Assistant Secretary), Department of Social Protection
Intent: To get support for these in the 2023 budget.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Pre Budget Submission addressing homelessness Early Learning and School Age Care Services Community and Family Support Services |
2023-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Kevin Dillon (Special Adviser), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Paschal Donohoe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael J. McGrath (Assistant Secretary), Department of Finance; John Hogan (Secretary General), Department of Finance; Feargal Ó Coigligh (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; John McCarthy (Chief Economist), Department of Finance; Michael J. McGrath (Assistant Secretary), Department of Finance; David Moloney (Assistant Secretary), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; Emma Cunningham (Assistant Secretary), Department of Finance; Aine Stapleton (Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Caroline Timmons (Acting Assistant Secretary), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Steven Matthews (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul McAuliffe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Francis Noel Duffy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Flaherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Gould (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Emer Higgins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoin Ó Broin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cian O'Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard O'Donoghue (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rebecca Moynihan (Senator), Seanad; Ged Nash (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: To get support for these in Budget 2023 by presenting the challenges facing AHB's and tenants due to cost of living increases and inflation and interest rate increases. A mechanism to assist with cash flow issues experienced by AHBs with CREL housing.
Methods: Letter, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Social and Cost Rental Delivery: Challenges facing AHB's and tenants due to cost of living increases and inflation. A mechanism to assist with cash flow issues experienced by AHBs with CREL projects. |
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