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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I confirm to the Chairman that I am in Leinster House. Due to the limited time I will go straight into questions. I have three questions, one for each of our guests. With respect to Dr. O'Toole's concerns that the shared equity loan for private purchases would push up house prices, I presume it is his view that the bigger that fund the greater the risk of inflation. We know, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The first question was to Dr. O'Toole, the second to Mr. John O'Connor and the third to Dr. Larry O'Connell.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (11 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the hiring process by which he made the recent appointments to the CCAC. [7683/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and its review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; the details on the stated need to consider environmental assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (11 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to legislate to encourage the uptake of life cycle assessment and-or to promote such assessments through green public procurement in future public housing developments. [7689/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications for open area exploration licences and licensing options received by his Department over the past five years; and the decision by his Department regarding each application in tabular form. [6819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of offshore oil and gas exploration licences that are currently open by the date each application was received in tabular form. [6820/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications for extension to offshore oil and gas licensing terms received in his Department by month that the application was received and the decision by his Department in tabular form. [6821/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to make details regarding applications for oil and gas exploration public on his Department’s website; and if it will be updated monthly. [6822/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commission the Housing Agency or another appropriate body to undertake a comparative study of housing and apartment construction and professional fee costs in the public and private sector to determine the reason for the recent significant increase in costs in a number of social housing tenders in Dublin City...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the policy of Dublin City Council and the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive of removing tents being used by persons sleeping rough in Dublin City and when removing these tents to remove and destroy the person belongings of the persons sleeping rough; and if he will request Dublin City Council to discontinue...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the recent significant rise in tender prices for social housing developments in Dublin City Council; and if he will examine the use of multi-annual framework agreements and breaking up larger development sites into tenders for enabling works and sub-lots of social housing within the social housing developments...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the creation of the single utility for water services and the drafting of a White Paper on the future of the utilities' SLA with local authorities including the Government's intentions on whether Irish Water will become a non-commercial semi-State company and whether the Government plans to hold a referendum on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: County Development Plans (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in issuing the updated county development plan guidance and the methodology for the housing demand needs assessment to local authorities; his views on whether this delay will have a negative impact on those local authorities that are at an advanced stage in their development plan review; and when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department in responding to the collective complaint brought to the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg regarding conditions in local authority properties; and the breakdown of those costs by type including legal fees, communications, research and any other category that may be relevant. [7133/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension of employment on a community employment scheme will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) given continued occupational focus would be greatly beneficial to the person. [7166/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (9 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Quinlan for the presentation and the work on the legislation. This is approximately two and a half years in gestation under two Governments, so I do not envy Mr. Quinlan and his team's difficulties in this regard. It is also important to point out that the serviced sites fund of €300 million was to deliver those 6,200 homes by the end of 2021. That was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (9 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like Mr. Nicholson to answer briefly my first question regarding how many homes he expects to be completed this year under the serviced sites fund, which is obviously separate to the issue of cost-rental equity loans. There has also been some confusion regarding what is known as the help-to-buy premium, which is part of the British scheme, and the impact of shared equity schemes on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (9 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do we have a number?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (9 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Mr. Nicholson confirm that Enniskerry Road will come from that fund as well and they should completed this year?