BREAKOUT SESSION: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
11:00
Chair’s opening remarks
Tina-Marie O’Neill
Property Editor, The Sunday Business Post
Perspectives on delivering a housing revolution
11:05
PANEL DISCUSSION: How do we tackle our housing crisis?
- What needs to change to make the estimated 30,000 – 35,000 new homes a year happen?
- What land reforms would have a positive impact on development?
- What is the real demand for housing and what are they likely to be over the coming years?
Michael O’Flynn
Chair and Managing Director, O’Flynn Group
Deirdre Ni Fhloinn
Barrister, PhD candidate: Legal remedies for defective housing and Irish Research Council Scholar
John O’Connor
Chief Executive, Housing Agency
Ben Hoey
CEO, The Quartech Group
11:50
PANEL DISCUSSION: Building a future for Irish renters
Latest figures from property website www.daft.ie show that average rental prices have hit a record high of €1,875 a month in Dublin, while in Cork the rate stands at €1,210 a month and in the rest of the country €883 a month. The rates are up 11%, 9.3%, and 10.1% respectively since March 2017. Ireland’s runaway rental property bubble is “unsustainable’. This panel of industry experts will analyse the complex problems of our rental sector and what government and industry can do to fix them.
Enda McGuane
Managing Director, Winters Property
Rosalind Carroll
Director, RTB (Residential Tenancies Board)
Dr Rory Hearne
Maynooth University Social Services Institute
12:30
Affordable homes: thinking outside the shoebox
- How to lower the costs and timelines for social housing
- Tendering for SME builders
- Long-term sustainability
Orla Hegarty
Architect, Assistant Professor at School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin
12:50
Paying for social housing
In his talk, Brian will cover the reclassification of Tier 3 AHBs and other funding and economic issues.
Brian O’Gorman
CEO, Clúid Housing