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Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In February, the European Commission initiated court proceedings against the Irish Government for breaches of the urban waste water treatment directive. Infringement proceedings have been ongoing since 2012. I am looking for an update from the Minister of State on the progress on the 38 agglomerations or urban areas that are currently in breach of EU law and what the Government will do to...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Interestingly, the primary reason the European Commission initiated the infringement proceedings was because when Fine Gael took office in 2011, it slashed the capital budget for wastewater treatment plans. Prior to that, particularly when John Gormley was Minister, the investment was between €200 million and €300 million on an annual basis. When Fine Gael took office with...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If John Gormley was able to sustain the level of funding in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, when the recession was at its deepest, there is simply no reason why Fine Gael, if it had chosen to continue that level of funding, could not have done so. My question has still not been answered. I want to know, year on year, from now to 2021, what the investment is. I knew the figure was €1.1...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is a smart man. I thought he might know off the top of his head.

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to outline the position regarding the way in which he plans to uphold his commitment to end the use of hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation as emergency accommodation for persons by July 2017; and a timeframe for same. [24806/17]

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The first action of Pillar 1 on homelessness in rebuilding Ireland commits to ensuring that by mid-2017 hotels will be used only in limited circumstances for emergency accommodation for families. Pillar 1 commits to meeting housing needs through the housing assistance payment, housing allocations, a rapid build programme and acquisitions. Nowhere in the document does it state those...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State left out three sentences from the commitment in the answer. The document does not simply state that the Government will end the use of hotels by mid-2017. It lists the four types of housing the Government will provide to meet that objective. Nowhere among those four types of housing is there mention of moving people into other emergency accommodation. When I...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Any improvement in emergency accommodation for families will be welcomed. Again, I go back to the commitment in Rebuilding Ireland that by the middle of this year families that are in hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation will be moved into HAP housing, rapid-build and procured units. We will want to know, sooner rather than later, how many of those 800 or 900 families have gone into...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is for small projects and tiny buildings. That is just disingenuous.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be addressing that issue.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department and the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, have a difficulty with numbers. The Minister does not now how many people will sleep in emergency accommodation tonight nor how many new builds are under construction. There are not 10,000 social housing units in the pipeline. I have examined the figures very carefully. In my...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To summarise, the Minister's answer to my question is that he does not know, despite the fact that he has been working on the scheme for a year. A circular issued by the Department in August stated that a minimum of 40% of the homes to be delivered would be available at 10% less than the average market cost, though in Dún Laoghaire that would be no guarantee of affordability. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have read the circulars.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister should read his own departmental circulars. In the August circular, it stated that affordable homes would be delivered and that a minimum of 40% would be available at prices 10% below the average cost in the market. That suggests it was a target but the October circular states that it may not always be possible to deliver 40% of new homes under the LIHAF bids at prices 10%...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: An answer would be nice. It would make a change.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister pull funding if he does not like it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are the Minister's circulars.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of affordable housing units that will be built on a site (details supplied) in view of the fact that a number of housing development sites, including a site and other sites around the State, received a substantial amount of funding from the local infrastructure housing activation fund, which contained a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like first to correct the Minister on a point he made earlier. Sinn Féin councillors did support the final Poolbeg proposal partly because they managed, along with councillors from other parties, to get an additional 350 social houses to the 620 originally proposed. A good job was done by the councillors in Dublin City Council. On Question No. 2, when the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is because the Minister's Government gave them no money to spend on doing anything with the land.