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Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to respond briefly to the Minister. I had not intended to respond but since the Minister repeated some of the factually inaccurate information he provided on Second Stage, I thought I should do so. I know the Minister does not pay much attention to the powers and functions of the Northern Assembly but if he did, he would know that the assembly does not have the legal authority...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, lines 6 to 8, to delete all words from and including “serves” in line 6 down to and including line 8 and substitute “in the opinion of the Board—”. Section 4 of the Bill is the section that seeks to substantially narrow the scope of protections for tenants from the existing emergency provisions to those who have had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 21 July 2020, if the decision will be reversed not to grant an exemption for three pupils to allow them to repeat their final year of education in a special needs school (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [19295/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further details will be provided on the capital funding, location and timelines for the development of new school buildings for schools (details supplied). [19296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the multi-year programme to rehabilitate 33,000 ha of Bord na Móna peatland as part of the July stimulus package is in addition to the October 2019 announcement to rehabilitate 35,000 ha of Bord na Móna peatland by 2025 or if there has been a 2,000 ha reduction in the plans for peatland rehabilitation....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1332. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide face coverings to vulnerable immunocompromised persons or persons with underlying health conditions. [20583/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the practice of reviewing pandemic unemployment payments for the self-employed exclusively against their 2018 tax returns will be reviewed to allow for more up to date evidence of earnings for 2019 and 2020 to be taken into account. [19011/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the practice of reviewing pandemic unemployment payments for the self-employed exclusively against their 2018 tax returns will be reviewed to allow for more up to date evidence of earnings for 2019 and 2020 to be taken into account. [19011/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for persons on the Covid-19 rent supplement payment post 30 August 2020; and if an assurance will be given that no claimant will have their payment withdrawn in cases in which the consequence of the withdrawal would be to force them into rent arrears. [19012/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a list of the 2,000 void social housing units being targeted in the July stimulus package by local authorities will be provided; if the €30 million allocation is in addition to the capital allocation for social housing agreed in budget 2020; and if not, if it is a reprofiling of existing capital funding from new...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the shovel-ready projects being funded under the announced €30 million additional funding for Irish Water as part of the July stimulus package. [19380/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which each direct provision centre or emergency centre contract expires. [19264/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children diagnosed with autism and other behavioural conditions such as ADHD and so on in HSE CHO 7 that are on the waiting list for the early bird programme, speech and language therapy, psychology and occupational therapy; the average length of time the children will be waiting on the lists for the services in the area; and the number of...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do. The programme for Government promises to improve security and affordability for renters. The Fianna Fáil election manifesto, on which the Minister campaigned vigorously, went further, promising to launch a "new deal for renters". Both documents also committed to reducing homelessness, yet the very first piece of legislation introduced by the Minister is nothing short of an...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Protection Agency (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the former the Department budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency of €11.78 million in capital and €25.14 million current for 2019. [18165/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the administrative costs of the head office of the National Parks and Wildlife Service in 2018 and 2019. [18166/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of active rental accommodation scheme tenancies in place. [18352/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the call for housing 2020 was established; the person heading up the initiative; the number of staff who will be working on the phone lines; and the estimated cost of establishing the initiative. [18379/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances in which a developer can receive an exemption to Part V requirements; his plans to review the availability of these exemptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18413/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated to local authorities to bring back voids into use in 2019 and to date in 2020; and the percentage of the funding spent on returning a void to use that can be recouped by local authorities from his Department. [18883/20]