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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a date for when his revised housing plan will be completed and published. [35826/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the growing unaffordability of cost-rental schemes funded by his Department; the measures he intends to take to address this growing unaffordability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36136/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the review of section 10 funding for homelessness service providers; and the changes he intends to make to this funding stream, in light of the near financial collapse of an organisation (details supplied) in 2023. [36134/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Uisce Éireann and ESB Networks for their presentations. To start with Uisce Éireann and to follow on around the capital requirements to meet increased housing delivery, my understanding is that Uisce Éireann has been raising the need for that additional capital from as far back as January or February of last year in some forms. Can the representatives give us any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given the fact that a lot of the projects we are talking about are multi-annual in nature, if Uisce Éireann gets maybe the initial increases for, say, 2026 and 2027 but does not have visibility as to what the capital envelope is in 2028 to 2029 to 2030, how much could that hamper it in terms of increasing the capacity for growth in the water and wastewater system? How crucial is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Realistically speaking, even if Uisce Éireann were to get a positive outcome from the national development plan review, given that it typically takes up to five years for new treatment capacity to be delivered, the actual increase, that growth potential, is still potentially five years off from when Uisce Éireann gets notification of the increased funding envelopes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before Uisce Éireann deals with the final question about the planning priority and the consents, I will throw in a question for Mr. Tarrant to answer after that. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities has expressed some concern about connection policies where they are demand-led. In one of the reports recently it suggested that it should have similar powers to its counterpart in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is more specific. Uisce Éireann has rightly called for parallel planning and consenting processes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there any indication from engagement with the Government or officials that they are looking to facilitate that request?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, it will ultimately require a change of legislation to allow for those parallel consents and planning applications.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has not received an increased allocation of SNAs following their exceptional review request; if the decision will be reviewed given the desperation for further support for children with special education needs within the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35149/25]

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I read the Department's amendment this morning. There is nothing constructive about it. It is an absolute embarrassment because of what it says not just to Deputies in this Chamber but to the people experiencing the hard edge of the Government's failed housing policies, which is that nothing will change. It is more of the same failed policies into the future. Yesterday, the housing...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the terms of reference of the procurement of what the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment recently referred to as an "in-depth research and analysis to provide a detailed view of the economic and societal benefits arising from data centres in Ireland"; and to outline which company has been chosen, and at what...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available from his Department to bereaved parents of children. [34682/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his Department's standard operating procedures for dealing with bereaved parents of children; if staff training has been received or is regularly provided to personnel dealing with parents in this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34683/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the local authorities and the ombudsman's office for their work, especially the work of their front-line staff. I acknowledge that. I have three questions for the DRHE and three questions for Dr. Muldoon and his team. A sum of €355 million for homeless services, predominantly emergency accommodation, is a huge amount of money. Does Ms Hayes have a breakdown of that spend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a prompt, from the data the DRHE provided to me on request, if a family with a three-bedroom need were going into emergency accommodation now, at the upper end, private emergency accommodation would be approximately €140,000 a year. For a family with a four-bedroom need, if they were to go into emergency accommodation now, the upper end would be approximately €180,000 a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the DRHE's own funded emergency accommodation coming from the Department? Is it something from within Dublin City Council? What does it say about the kind of expectation of what will happen with homelessness trends in the short to medium term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a signal that there is no expectation at this point, all things remaining the same, that the numbers are going to fall anytime soon. DRHE is going to invest a significant amount of capital in its owned homes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is hard not to feel utterly depressed at having this same conversation at yet another meeting of the Oireachtas housing committee. The child and family homelessness crisis really kicked off in 2014. I was on South Dublin County Council at the time. The total number of children in section 10-funded emergency accommodation at that point was 880. It has increased 442% in the intervening...