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Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — decades of underfunding by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments, in our water and electricity infrastructure, have created significant constraints to the increased delivery of public and private housing; — the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has warned that data centres pose a risk to increased housing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: On 18 February last, the Cabinet approved funding for 3,000 social and affordable homes. Decisions on these applications from councils and approved housing bodies had been greatly delayed. At the time, we were told by the Department that within a matter of weeks, following due diligence, formal notification of the approvals would be passed on to the councils and AHBs. Some 11 weeks on,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (7 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if priority is afforded to applicants who opt to take their driving test through Gaeilge in relation to driving test waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (7 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment to undertake their driving test. [22086/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (7 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the new housing first tender being run by the housing first office; and the impact on current supports to housing first tenants and the creation of new housing first tenancies arising for the failure to successfully complete the tender process to date. [22152/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (7 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the funding to be made available to the Housing Activation Office; if media reports of a €1 billion fund over five years is correct; if so, if this funding will come from within the existing expenditure allocation; and if not, if it will be additional and require a further supplementary estimate for 2025....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the rural, Gaeltacht and islands planning guidelines will be published. [22850/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Schemes (1 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality regarding residents of IPAS accommodation employed in roles with companies who have some work outside of the area in which the accommodation is based, if there is a mechanism for such residents to access alternative accommodation while working in an alternative area in order to avoid losing their employment; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 373. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the rules for the dispensing of prescriptions to medical card holders, including the number of months that can be dispensed at a time; and to confirm the way in which pharmacies are paid to dispense prescriptions under the medical card scheme. [21978/25]

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be sharing time with my colleague, Deputy McGuinness. Statutory planning frameworks are enormously important. They not only set out a clear and legally defined basis for the entire hierarchy of plans, including the regional plans, the city and county development plans and local area plans, but they also provide a long-term strategic framework for investment and delivery of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Official Travel (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 258. 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 Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the new climate action plan will include a commitment to provide additional supports for the retrofitting of approved housing body social housing. [19878/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 915. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has assessed the impact to students of this year’s proposed changes in relation to grade inflation in Leaving Certificate 2025; if previous year’s results are to be amended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19650/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Correspondence (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1084. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a dated list of all correspondence between the European Commission and his Department on the issue of regulating and registering short-term lets, from 2020 to date [18980/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Responsibilities (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has delegated responsibilities to his Ministers of State; and if so, the responsibilities he has delegated to each Minister of State. [18976/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all land that had its residential zoning by way of ministerial order in each of the years since 2020, by local authority area and land volume. [18977/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total Exchequer expenditure on social housing acquisitions in 2024, by local authority area, acquisition schemes, that is, tenant-in-situ, the Housing First scheme, vacant acquisitions, and buy and renew; and number of units acquired under each scheme in each local authority area, in tabular form. [18978/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a dated list of all correspondence between the European Commission and his Department on the issue of regulating and registering short-term lets, from 2020 to date. [18979/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that he has received the Housing Agency's review of rent pressure zones, and to publish the report. [18981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the commencement schedule for each of the chapters and sections of Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act 2024; and to clarify if a partial commencement of chapter 2 is envisaged earlier in 2025 under block A2, with remaining sections of chapter 2 Part 9 to follow, with the subsequent and later implementation...