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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no change, therefore, and it is just moving the text around.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to the full cluster of amendments because there are a lot of shared amendments here. I will take a step back for a moment. Folks who are professional planners, but for whom the Irish language is not a part of their daily life, are sometimes surprised when we table these amendments or have this discussion. They think of this as a planning Bill and ask why we are spending so...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will again make the point that there is something we do not get to do when we take the amendments as a group. These are not all the same. They are trying to do similar things in very different areas of our planning system. It is a challenge to take them as a group. I am returning to that again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My only point is a procedural one, which is that, while they have to be taken as a group, we do not have to discuss them all at the same time. We could take them chronologically within the group because they are not all the same, although they are themed. It is the same for the Minister of State. He is being hit with all sorts of questions about a grouped set of amendments. We are jumping...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not disagree with the point about the grouping but the grouping is the Bills Office, I believe, not the Department. However, the point still stands.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates Publication (7 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the AEV and REV, including details of all individual spending programmes under each subhead for 2023 and 2024 for the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in tabular form. [5256/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [5257/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (7 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is preparing legislation to address issues of habitual residency and social housing support eligibility; and if so, the purpose and potential scope of the legislation. [5258/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of owners' management companies that have applied for the interim emergency funding for buildings with defects that was open for application in December 2023. [5259/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (7 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what subvention is available to the Land Development Agency to help it ensure that its rents are at least 25% below market rent; the number of applications received by the LDA for any such subvention; and the amount committed to date for this subvention. [5260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of units of modular accommodation for temporary protection recipients that have been delivered to date, by location, number of units and average cost per unit of accommodation, in tabular form. [5265/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax treatment of rental income from local authority and approved housing body social tenancies and rental income from local authority, approved housing body and Land Development Agency rental tenancies. [4840/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (1 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he agrees that the level of successful prosecutions of wildlife crime is too low; that expectations of at least 200 prosecutions per year have not been reached, despite substantially more legislation and increased monitoring being in place; if the reason for the lack of prosecutions (details supplied), especially with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (1 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the number of prosecutions for wildlife crimes by county for each of the years 2019 to 2023. [4900/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (1 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the function of the Wildlife Crime Committee within the National Parks and Wildlife Service; to provide an update on what progress it has made, and measures taken to address noticeable discrepancy between regions in the number of prosecutions taken. [4901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (1 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what qualifications are required on recruitment and what further in-house training is given to the administration and field staff of NPWS to effectively carry out the function of implementation and enforcement of the various wildlife-related legislation, including the Wildlife Acts 1976 to 2018, the European Communities...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are these rents affordable?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are they affordable, yes or no?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This month the Land Development Agency announced its latest cost-rental homes. These include one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments in Citywest here in Dublin. The rents range from almost €1,400 a month for a one-bedroom apartment to €1,800 a month for a three-bedroom one. Under the rules of the cost-rental scheme, prospective tenants would need a gross income...

Visit of Isle of Man Delegation (31 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are here to learn how not to do things.