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Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 418. To ask the Minister for Health if the €1.5 million funding required for core funding and rehabilitation services provided by an organisation (details supplied) will be allocated. [43515/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 419. To ask the Minister for Health if €5 million will be invested to fund the start-up, staffing, programme and infrastructural development for a regional rehabilitation centre for an organisation (details supplied). [43516/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the allocation for rent supplement for 2020. [43532/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architects Register (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the introduction of an architectural technologists register; the legislation which will deal with the register; when the legislation will be introduced; and the timeframe for the operation of the register. [43020/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the €40 million allocated under the budget 2020 allocation to families with pyrite affected homes will now be available to families in Dublin, north Leinster, County Mayo and Limerick city and county in addition to families with mica affected homes in County Donegal; if these are demand-led funding schemes; and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have always been of the view that the purpose of the strategic housing developments was not in the first instance to speed up the planning process, and I will explain why in a moment. Their primary purpose was to bypass democratically agreed city and county development plans. There is a mounting body of evidence, to which I will come in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are those quotes reflective of the corporate thinking of Dr. Duffy's organisation? Are they a fair reflection of what PII was up to at that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sorry, I was referring to engaging in the lobbying process. Is the research a fair reflection of what PII was doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The specific question was on the quote attributed to someone from PII describing the decisions of local authorities and, in particular, councillors in their city and county development plans as "ridiculous rubbish".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have just double-checked and it is. Does that accurately reflect how PII thinks about some of our elected representatives and the decisions they take in city and county development plans?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not question that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there not a clear legal difference in the legislation between the provision that the board have regard for the development plans and the planning authority having to comply with those plans? That is a fundamental difference. There may be a small number of cases where there is a disagreement between the planning authority and the board. However, the fact that it is the board that decides...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will revert to that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can we make it a fast-track process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us remember that SHDs exist because the Oireachtas voted for them, although I voted against them. I say that only in deference to our guests. To return to what Mr. Corr said earlier, I believe we do need cheerleaders for local authorities, which were wrongly blamed for the delays in the planning process even though they were due to the design of the planning process, which is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is like being asked whether one is a member of the Communist Party.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not, nor have I ever been.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has the Chairman ever been a member of the Communist Party?