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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Domestic Pets (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress on the establishment of a central GDPR-compliant database to collate the registration numbers of sellers or suppliers of dogs, the dog breeding establishment licence numbers and the unique microchip identifier assigned to dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36558/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for being late. I suppose, in some senses, today's discussion is less about policy because that is really for the Minister and the programme for Government. This is more about how the Department sets out those policies in a strategic statement. I will restrict my questions to those areas rather than policy areas because that is for another meeting. Many of us are interested,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department in its previous form, as the Department with responsibility for the environment, used to produce an annual book of statistics. It was normally produced at the very end of the year or the start of the subsequent year. It provided a great deal of statistical data on outputs from the Department and from local authorities. I highly recommend that as a practice that could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just want to emphasise the need for greater data on local authority outputs to be collated by the Department as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the presentation and for the information. There are three sets of questions. With respect to the homeless Supplementary Estimate, is all of the additional €60 million going to the Covid-related provisions, as the Minister outlined, or is there an opportunity for some of that funding to address some of the other specific issues that have arisen this year?...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to launch his new affordable housing plan. [35579/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to announce the detail of his shared equity loan scheme for approved housing bodies and private sector home purchases. [35580/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to issue the methodology for the housing needs demand assessment to local authorities as part of the development plan review process. [35581/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish his Department’s new rural housing planning guidelines. [35582/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to circulate to local authorities the updated development plan guidelines. [35583/20]

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Today's debate is about low standards, credibility and trust but, most of all, it is about how Government business is done by Fine Gael. Last week, Leo Varadkar admitted to leaking a highly confidential document. When his colleague, the then Minister for Health, was asked to leak the same document, he refused, yet the leader of Fine Gael passed the document, marked "Confidential" and "not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Departmental review into co-living has concluded; if a report has been presented to him; and when he plans to publish the outcome of the review. [35578/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; and if her Department has had contact with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in terms of a review of the Act. [35287/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dog Breeding Industry (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 798. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dog sellers who have registered with his Department since the introduction of new regulations on the sale or supply of pet animals that came into effect on 1 February 2020; and if he will publish the information on a regular basis. [34655/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sure Mr. Sheridan had sleepless nights for quite some time after this legislation was originally passed, given its torturous passage through the House. I will make a couple of introductory remarks and then I will pose some very direct questions both to the Department and to the board. This was a terrible piece of legislation. I mean that with no disrespect to the enormous amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The first four are for Mr. Sheridan and the last three are for An Bord Pleanála.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will get them in the second round. Mr. Sheridan should not worry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just in terms of the timeline, is it December 2021 or February 2022? That is quite an important question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Could we take more questions, very briefly, and allow the members to come in, in the five minutes we have if we promise to be very brief?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: If our questions are brief, the board may be able to reply to all three of us.