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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is not answering the questions, as usual. He is avoiding answering the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given the Minister has not answered any of those questions, my last question is this. His predecessors would come into this committee four times a year for quarterly updates on the implementation of the programme for government. The Minister has been in office for nine months and the committee has written to him several times. This is the first time he has come in for this purpose, and it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that a "Yes" or a "No"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a "No" to my question, I take it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be more helpful if the questions were answered.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of quick questions so that we have time for Deputy O'Donoghue too. Will the Minister tell us from which programme the €214 million has been carried over? I assume the bulk of it is in social housing for local authorities but maybe the Minister will confirm that. Covid obviously played a significant role in the drop in construction output last year. Social housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am in Leinster House. I thank the Department for the briefing material and for the very detailed private briefing it gave us last week. Like Senator Fitzpatrick, I acknowledge that this is a hugely significant piece of work, but also a hugely significant statutory framework for future planning in the marine area. One of the concerns I want to raise at the outset is that this is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will quickly ask a follow-on question. Does Mr. McCabe accept that the absence of MPAs being designated or the absence of sensitivity mapping telling us where they might be designated will make more difficult the job of planning officials who are making complex planning decisions? Would it not be better to have as much of the MPA designation or mapping done as early in the process as possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the team from the Department for the detailed answers. It is helpful for us to navigate through this. I will pick up on an answer that Mr. Woolley gave to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan about changes. One of the submissions to the consultation was from the Environmental Protection Agency. It had some quite strong concerns about the weakness of the existing environmental baseline. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I might make a couple of comments before returning to questions. To be clear, my proposition at the start was for something similar to pre-legislative scrutiny. While it is the case that pre-legislative scrutiny is carried out on Bills, section 73 of the Planning and Development Act, the relevant section for dealing with this plan, provides that Oireachtas committees can compile reports and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 73(2) of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely, Chairman. I will email it now.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Convention on Human Rights (1 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the report issued by the European Committee on Social Rights in March 2021 which stated that the Government is still in breach of article 16 of the European Convention of Human Rights with respect to local authority tenants and Traveller accommodation; the additional actions he plans to take to address this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 3,054 women are waiting for gynaecological care at Tallaght Hospital and 1,452 women are waiting over 18 months; and the steps he plans to take to ensure the hospital has a full complement of staff of address the large waiting list. [17671/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (31 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 151. To ask the Taoiseach the dedicated email addresses for members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to contact his Department and bodies under its aegis as outlined in circular 25/2016. [16013/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (31 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the recent changes to the SEAI schemes for private homeowners; and the reason homeowners that availed of secondary measures under the scheme previously are refused further works. [16741/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (31 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the recent changes to the SEAI schemes for private homeowners; and the reason homeowners who availed of secondary measures under the scheme previously are refused further works. [17069/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (31 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the failure of Irish Water to honour a WRC agreement on the use of private contractors for the find and first-fix scheme; his plans for same; and the impact the breach of a WRC agreement will have on his July 2021 deadline for the single utility negotiations. [16420/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (31 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total allocation of funding for 2021 to address mica block and pyrite in counties Donegal, Mayo and Limerick; the number of homes expected to be remediated from the funding in each county; if the funding will be used to address pyrite in other counties; and the way in which it is planned to fund the remediation of over...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (31 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Land Development Agency development on the Devoy Barracks site, Naas, County Kildare; the number of units proposed; the tenure mix; the development partners; and the timeline for planning, commencement and completion. [17051/21]