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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (25 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPS number application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin city. [39172/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (25 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 150. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which each direct provision centre or emergency centre contract expires. [39128/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (25 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 151. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to increase the provision of direct provision accommodation in the Dublin 22 area and specifically with respect to an address (details supplied). [39144/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he is taking to deal with the rise in the number of deaths of persons who were accessing homeless services and or sleeping rough. [38309/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister will be aware that I have raised this issue previously and I fully accept the seriousness with which he has been responding to it but since we last raised it, we have seen a number of very significant tragic deaths of people who were either rough sleeping or engaging the homeless services in Dublin, Galway and Cork. I have heard some very concerning figures, particularly from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the study because we have to have an informed and evidence-based approach to this. In many cases what we are seeing is the overlap of three sets of issues - homelessness, mental health and addiction - and the lack of adequate provision of those three services at the right time and place to meet the needs of individuals ,which in many cases, unfortunately, puts them at greater risk...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I again acknowledge the fact that the programme for Government has a commitment to increase this provision. The original Housing First strategy introduced by the previous Government only committed to approximately 600 Housing First tenancies up to next year. We need in the region of 3,000 to deal with the current number of individuals who need that particular support and that is where we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: A person who has previously engaged with homeless services, and who has moved on to a stable tenancy, and, for example, as in a number of cases that have been quoted by the DRHE have died from other tragic causes need to be treated as a separate category because their vulnerability is very different. The Minister probably agrees with that point and I look forward to the report and to his...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government does not fund them.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does not control the purse strings. The Government controls the purse strings.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: One application as a result of that big change-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Fund the Oscar Traynor Road development. That is what the Minister could do.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the Minister's response. He will recall that he worked alongside others in opposition and the then Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, to successfully remove St. Michael's Estate from the land initiative into a much more sustainable public housing funding model that is currently working its way through. That is what we need to do in this instance. The vast majority of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The haste the Minister speaks about is, again, something we would welcome and we will work with him on this. We cannot have strategic sites such as this being used, for example, for so-called affordable housing that costs the purchaser between €325,000 for a one-bed up to €380,000 for a three-bed. We cannot have valuable public land like this being used to sell open market,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with Dublin City Council to secure European Investment Bank finance and a serviced sites fund allocation to ensure the delivery of social and affordable homes on the Oscar Traynor road site in Coolock, Dublin 17. [38723/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, a substantial majority of Dublin City Council members rejected the proposal of their management to transfer land on Oscar Traynor Road to a private developer as part of the scheme there. I understand the Lord Mayor of Dublin has written to the Minister. This is an opportunity for us to work together and not be adversarial but to try to put in place a better funding...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Land Development Agency (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if residential development delivered by the Land Development Agency, LDA, will be delivered through designated activity company subsidiaries of the agency; if LDA developments may include unaffordable open market priced homes on public land; and if the compulsory purchase powers of the agency will be limited to ransom strips....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Land Development Agency (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the House knows, the revised general scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2020 has been published. It is a significantly longer text than the one the Minister and I scrutinised at the previous housing committee. There are a lot of significant changes but also some worrying carryover from the original draft. Maybe the Minister could give the House an overview of some of what he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Land Development Agency (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. One of the concerns both he and I had last year was that by using the designated activity companies model for the residential developments, those activities would not be subject to FOI and the lobbying register. That is obviously still the case where the LDA uses the its subsidiaries as the Minister has outlined. There is of course also a concern that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Land Development Agency (24 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is aware that the housing committee has written to him wanting to know if pre-legislative scrutiny on the general scheme is possible in view of the fact that most of the committee members are new. It would be helpful if he would give the committee an indication of whether he is willing to do that or not. The committee would of course expedite such a request. I am very...