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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Loan Scheme (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister will be aware that one of the difficulties in Dublin is that the loans being offered are, on average, €200,000. My local authority of Dublin City Council offers €180,000. This is far short of the market rate. 6 o’clock One of the things we are being told by people who receive offers that are simply too low in the context of purchasing properties is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the cause of the recent boil water notice at the Leixlip water treatment plant was the same as that discovered by the Environmental Protection Agency in March 2019. [45234/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: To move on a little bit from what we were discussing earlier, I was not questioning the decision regarding whether to shut down the water supply or to introduce the boil water notices. I understand the logic behind that. I refer more specifically to what happens after the current upgrade works to deal with the turbidity issue are carried out. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome that direct engagement. The EPA's audits are very valuable and very useful and are produced in a way that those of us who are not technical experts in the field can fully understand. The Minister is absolutely right. The ongoing upgrading of the filtration system in the old part of the plant which supplies 20% of the water to the greater Dublin area is, as far as we understand,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation published in July 2019. [45235/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As we know, it was in 2017 that the Housing Agency, on foot of a request from the Department, published a very extensive report showing the failings in the Traveller accommodation budgetary process. To the Minister's credit, he put together an expert group which produced a very good report, which was published in July. We are now four months on from that so I am interested to hear the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. Two things became evident from today's hearings. The first is, obviously, very significant systems failures and management failures between the incident that took place in April and the EPA audit in March and the event in October. Not all of the eight recommendations the EPA made in March have been fully implemented. The EPA has made another nine...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. I wish to press him, however, on the issue of the ultraviolet filtration system because, if that is necessary, it will require additional capital investment over and above what has already been allocated for this plant. Therefore, while I am not asking him to commit to that expenditure, I am asking for reassurance that if it is required, he will look...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the information he received regarding the failure of Irish Water and Fingal County Council to fully implement the recommendations of the March 2019 drinking water audit report relating to the Leixlip water treatment plant prior to the alum dosing incident that resulted in the issuing of a boil water notice for 615,539 persons...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, we have had two significant boil water notices issued for the five local authorities in Dublin, Kildare and Meath. Today, representatives from Irish Water, the EPA, Fingal County Council and the City and County Management Association, CCMA, appeared before the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government. What actions has the Minister taken since the two...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adults and children registered as homeless in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45233/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider his opposition to placing an obligation on platforms and letting agents to ensure all properties are complaint with new planning regulations in view of the low level of compliance with short-term letting regulations. [45236/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the concerns raised in two letters to him by a person (details supplied) regarding a lack of resources available to the Residential Tenancies Board to implement and enforce the new regulations which came into force in July 2019 and the concern that the late fines for landlords that failed to register with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the capital allocation for building works at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin. [45305/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Illegal Fireworks (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider strengthening the law to prevent the illegal or reckless use of fireworks and deal with the rise in the dangerous use of fireworks during the Halloween period. [44194/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers returned to Zimbabwe in each of the years 2012 to 2015. [44917/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home help and-or support in County Longford; and the number of home help hours cut per week due to staff illness or shortages in the county. [44942/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 935. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by South Dublin County Council for sports capital funding for a sports pavilion programme, including the provision of a pavilion in an area (details supplied). [44929/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a caravan rental or rent-to-buy scheme that will provide residential standard mobile homes for Travellers will be developed. [44344/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the general scheme of the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill; and when he plans to publish the Bill. [44684/19]