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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure in 2020 on payment and availability agreement payments to approved housing bodies; the number of tenancies covered by these agreements; the current expenditure allocation for 2021 on payment and availability agreements to approved housing bodies; the expected number of tenancies this expenditure will cover;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the costs approved for the delivery of social housing through both bundle 1 and bundle 2 of the public private partnership projects; the monthly and annual payments to each consortia involved in bundle 1 and bundle 2; the number of years over which these payments will be made; the breakdown of these payments by construction,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the systems in place to ensure that building products such as blocks are manufactured to appropriate standards; the systems in place to ensure that materials from quarries used in building products such as blocks are appropriate for such purposes and are being secured from licensed quarries; the level of inspections by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the financial contribution scheme for older persons is in operation in the four local authority areas in Dublin; and the qualifying criteria for the scheme. [34391/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes completed and the number of social homes in the pipeline availing of the one-stage approval process; and the number of those delivered to date and in the pipeline to date that have availed of the one-stage process since the threshold was increased. [34465/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties offered, purchased and tenanted under the Minister's call for housing in August 2020. [34466/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Q1 and Q2 social housing pipeline reports will be published. [34467/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on staff shortages in the fire service; the number of hours that fire engines were out of service due to staff shortages in the fire service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34736/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 412. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to use the powers under section 19(9) of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 to issue a statutory instrument providing greater clarity and guidance to directors of owners' management companies. [34277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a primary medical certificate. [27745/21]

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Bill has been two and a half years in gestation. Considerable work on the legislation and the ideas behind it started a year before the previous Government fell. As I understand it, the working group continued to work on it during the interregnum and modest changes, in my view, have been added by the Government. This means the legislation before us in fact does not represent the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday we heard that the Tánaiste's Cabinet colleague, the Minister, Deputy Harris, suggested that alternative sites were being examined for the future national maternity hospital. Tallaght, in particular, was mentioned as a possibility. Can the Tánaiste confirm whether the Government is indeed looking at alternative sites and, if it is, which sites, and what stage is that at?...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: If ever there was a lesson in Orwellian doublespeak and dishonesty, we have just heard it from the Tánaiste. The key problem is that almost every single policy this Government has introduced has pushed up house prices and rents. The help to buy scheme pushed up house prices. Rent pressure zones, RPZs, pushed up rental costs. The shared equity loan scheme, which we will debate later...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I did not ask about social housing. I asked about public housing, and surely the Tánaiste understands the difference between the two.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We deliver 4,000 affordable purchase homes per year. How many has the Tánaiste delivered?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: How many has the Tánaiste delivered?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We deliver 4,000 affordable purchase homes annually.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We want affordable homes for working people, and not tax breaks for big landlords and sweetheart land deals for developers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This week's Central Statistics Office, CSO, pulse survey makes for grim reading. Some 76% of people sharing rented accommodation do not believe they will ever own their own home. Tens of thousands of people are locked out of home ownership, trapped in over-priced rental accommodation or forced to move back home with their parents, who are beside themselves with worry that their children...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hopefully the Mail on Sundaywill let me write a critique of the Minister's plan and I can sing its praises or highlight its weaknesses, depending on its content. For the second time today, the Minister has not answered the question, which was a simple one. When does the Minister believe we will reach the 33,000 new home completions target that will be in his strategy? If he will not answer...