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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes delivered in 2023 via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan and the Land Development Agency's Project Tosaigh; and his views on the rising rents and house prices under these schemes. [7244/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister in a position yet to tell us about the final delivery of social new build and affordable housing under the three affordable housing schemes were for last year? If not, can he indicate if he believes the targets set out in his housing plan will be met on those four crucial schemes?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In fact the figures for delivery under the genuine affordable housing schemes are much worse than the number the Minister quoted here. In his first year as Minister, no affordable purchase homes were delivered and only 65 cost-rental homes. In 2022, there were only 323 genuinely affordable homes to purchase delivered and just under 700 cost-rental homes. The Minister is right that we do...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is that the Minister keeps missing his target. For example, he did not meet his affordable purchase or cost-rental targets last year. He will not meet them this year. On the first homes scheme, which the Minister is correct that I oppose, the Minister missed his targets by 50% last year and by even more the year before. But also, increasingly the homes he is talking about are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is paid back in the end.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Either by their children, as a penalty, or when they sell. They pay the full price.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: And very unaffordable.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional measures he plans to introduce in 2024 to address the deepening homelessness crisis. [7243/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will be aware, the December homeless figures showed a record 13,318 people, including 3,962 children, in emergency accommodation funded by his Department. That is a 20% increase in family homelessness on the previous year but there was a month-on-month increase in single-person homelessness and pensioner homelessness. While I welcome the fact there was a slight decrease in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the December figures were published, Simon Communities stated that homelessness is poised to increase in the coming months. They would know because they are on the front line. The problem is there is a growing gap between the answers that the Minister gives to these questions on the floor of the Dáil and the reality for many thousands of adults and children who are experiencing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The homeless figures: make grim reading with no progress made in terms of stemming the flow of families presenting as homeless or moving people out of emergency accommodation into long term housing. Consistent increases in the overall homelessness numbers over the past five years despite regular announcements of plans and strategies have destroyed confidence in the ability of the political...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the constitutional referenda on the right to housing and public ownership of water. [6821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the low number of applications to the revised defective concrete block remediation scheme and the slow rate of processing existing applications that have transferred to the new scheme. [6824/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group report on Traveller accommodation. [6823/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortality Rates (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s response to the recent Health Research Board’s report into mortality among single homeless people. [6822/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; the number of appeals awaiting assessment; if an indication of a timeframe to clear the backlog of appeals is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the provision of a fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme to replace the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7261/24]