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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 09, 2015

MOTION NO.10

MOTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

Given the scale of the current housing crises, given the recent statement by the Minister responsible that funding is not a barrier and given that the real solution involves long term planning and collaboration between the statutory, voluntary and private sectors, this Council determines to adopt a County housing emergency and hereby agrees as a first step to set up an all grouping housing committee to work with the Council Executive and with all other stakeholders to solve the housing crises in this County.

REPORT:

The Housing SPC has recently constituted a sub-committee to look methods of delivery of social housing. The Sub-committee has representatives of the Approved Housing Body sector and voluntary sector in its membership and will call on others as required. This sub-committee is already providing a forum as suggested in the motion. 

The Council also has a number of other forums that involve stakeholders in the provision of housing advice or indeed in the provision of housing itself. These are

It is a view that any new group would duplicate the work undertaken by the SPC Sub Group and above interagency committees formed. The Council is also represented on the Dublin Region Social Housing Task Force and the Social Housing Strategy Project Board.