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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a hall at the school is inaccessible to the students attending a school (details supplied); if it will be made available to the students for use; and if so, when; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40800/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to ensure the delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental accommodation in the Poolbeg west SDZ, including the number of such units that will be made available in the initial phase and the price to buy and rent those units. [40868/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to ensure the delivery of cost rental accommodation on the O’Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road sites, including the number of such units that will be made available; and the expected rent for those units. [40870/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests made by South Dublin County Council to his Department to purchase land in its administrative area; where these lands were; and the response of his Department to these requests. [40871/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 272. To ask the Minister for Health if policy relating to instances where a person in possession of a medical card can be assigned a GP by the HSE Primary Care Reimbursement Services following three GP refusals, has been changed; if so, the reason for the change; if another policy has replaced it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40891/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will keep to my time. I thank the witnesses for coming and taking the time to make the written submissions, especially in such a short period. I appreciate that the existing by-laws are old and must be changed and updated. I understand from talking to some people that many aspects of the by-laws are less controversial than others. I will make a few comments about the public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not dispute any of that. I thank Mr. Rowe. In that context, I presume that taking a few more months to get it right and to reach the maximum degree of consensus would not cause a great deal of difficulty as regards the issues Waterways Ireland is trying to address.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly. I presume that is a "Yes".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We spent a lot of time recently on the legislation relating to marine protected areas, the Maritime Area Planning Act. How the consultation is done is also important. While simply opening a deadline, inviting people to make submissions and holding some public hearings might seem to the organisation running it to be open consultation, organisations often tell us - not only in relation to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, Mr. Rowe is indicating that Waterways Ireland would be open to doing more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Rowe. I have 30 seconds left. Assuming that Waterways Ireland is open to extending and deepening the public consultation, the objective would be to publish a revised draft set of by-laws. Would it be willing to come back to the committee to give us some time to further scrutinise those? Many of us are only coming to this at the last minute. Both the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good if the Chair put this on the agenda for our private meeting on Tuesday because we may want to write to the Minister to express some views.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Tenant In Situ Scheme: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If it is in order, I believe we all have read the statement. Given that we have less time - to be fair, it is not the Minister's fault - we should take the statement as read. I also suggest we give each member five minutes rather than seven, which means everybody should get in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Tenant In Situ Scheme: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the information. I welcome every single one of the properties that is both acquired and sale agreed. We have been calling for the scheme to be reopened and then improved for quite some time. I would like to run through some of the feedback that we are getting from tenants and landlords. They are not questions but I am genuinely putting these forward because I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Tenant In Situ Scheme: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not asking him to answer. I am asking him to take that on board to try to improve this going forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Tenant In Situ Scheme: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (21 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps the Minister can write with some of those.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (20 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to explain the long delay in the completion and opening of the Kishogue train station in Clonburris, County Dublin; and to provide a date for when the station will be completed and open. [39826/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (20 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the electrification of the train line to Hazelhatch through Clondalkin, Kishogue and Adamstown; and to provide a date for the completion of these works and a date for the commencement of the Dart service on this enhanced line. [39827/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (20 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of renters who have availed of the renters' tax credit in 2023, providing a breakdown by county; the average amount claimed, by county; and the total amount claimed to date in 2023. [40138/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Standards Authority of Ireland (20 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 240. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm whether the NSAI has lost or recently lost any of its international credit actions; if so, to explain the reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40306/23]