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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the Department's threshold for affordability because clearly it is not what was included in the original circular anymore?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Affordability is based on what people can pay, not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the basis of what Mr. Walsh has said, there could, for example, be in Cherrywood a potential allocation of €15 million without any house coming in under €300,000. That is possible; therefore, there will be no affordability option.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is in the centre we are talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would it not be approximately six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My questions was, is there an actual model as opposed to an idea? What I am hearing from councillors in Dublin city, and from a manager in South Dublin, is that there is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a target of 6,600 over the six years under what has already been announced. The real question is whether it will be more ambitious than that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will follow up the questions on homelessness. I presume the May homeless figures will be out this week. The Minister's predecessor had a terrible habit of allowing the release of them late on a Friday or bank holiday Monday. If the Minister has seen them, will he tell them to us? More importantly, will he give a commitment that they will be released in a way to allow full and proper...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who have been granted a stamp 4 visa each month to date in 2017, in tabular form. [29917/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 339. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for surgery. [29533/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 543. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason that children who are still in secondary school but who have turned 18 years of age are no longer eligible for child benefit; and her plans to review this policy and allow child benefit to be paid to children until they leave school. [29534/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 564. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to a media inquiry (details supplied), the category of weekly payment which is referred to in row one to single men; the category of payment which is referred to in row two to women and families; and if the payment in row three refers to the funding of emergency accommodation. [29684/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the names of the persons and organisations on his Department's data analytics group; and the names and organisations it has consulted with to date. [29764/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (27 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the data officials from his Department or those officials involved in the short-term letting working group have requested from a company (details supplied); when this information was requested; and if this data has been provided. [29993/17]

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after "orderly remediation of legacy defects in housing":" - conduct an urgent review of the use of combustible materials used in the construction and refurbishment of homes and to update, if necessary, fire safety regulations; and - conduct an urgent review of fire safety compliance and enforcement regulations and bring forward new regulations,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have several questions on homelessness and social housing. I raised the issue previously of the monthly report and the numbers of people that the Department is reporting as homeless. The figures that come from the Department go through the pathway accommodation and support system funded through the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. We know that currently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: How many families will remain in some form of emergency accommodation by the end of July, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of the 600 or so currently in the hotels, how many will get permanent homes and how many will remain in other forms of emergency accommodation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister thinks all those families are going to stay in emergency accommodation.