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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As with previous years, I have no objection at all to the proposition on the table. I have three questions, and while the same questions are asked each year, it is worthwhile to give a little time to them. When the waiver was first introduced, there was concern in some local authorities around issues of public liability insurance and so on. In the Minister’s officials’...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Official Travel (30 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the carbon emissions associated with all official air travel in tonnes; the value of these emissions; the amounts paid to the climate action fund by each Department, agency and body required to do so under the procedures for offsetting the emissions associated with official air travel for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average all in cost to the Exchequer for social housing acquisitions purchased in 2023 with a breakdown, by local authority with the number of acquisitions and the average cost in each local authority area. [19303/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has plans to progress the proposal for a Liffey Valley park (details supplied); and if so, if he will outline the status of the project and a timeline for commencement. [19493/24]

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations, and for the longer documentation which is exceptionally helpful in our consideration of the general scheme. Will Community Law and Mediation give us some concrete instances where, under the operation of the circular as it currently stands, people it believes should have a right to access social housing supports have been denied? What is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On what ground does Ms Wall think that group of people might become disentitled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their answers to all the questions that have been asked. One of the things I am trying to get my head around is what may be the interaction between habitual residency and lawful residency as they are outlined in the general scheme of the Bill, and reckonable residency, which, as Mr. Murtagh said, is not referenced but obviously has a legal meaning. For those of us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is cool.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would include people who are citizens or who have a stamp 4 visa.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are all relatively aware of how habitual residency is currently applied when applying for social housing in that the person has been living in the area for a certain period, he or she works a certain distance from the area and his or her children are in school. Habitual and long-term residency are not the same thing. Habitual residency is where my centre of interest is currently. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Very briefly and I would like to give Mr. Allen a minute of the one minute 40 seconds left in my slot, I have a question on the subsection that refers to the future intentions of the person concerned as they appear, from all the circumstances. Has Ms Heavey ever come across eligibility criteria like that where the deciding officer is trying to establish what he or she thinks might be the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Allen has one minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I ask a quick supplementary question?