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Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Bill is designed to allow the electoral register to be used for the purposes of selecting the members of the citizens' assembly. I will only speak about the technical aspects of the Bill and not the broader issue of the assembly itself as that was well debated earlier. Sinn Féin will oppose the Bill because this is the wrong data source and the wrong organisation to oversee the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support the spirit of amendments Nos. 8 and 9 and will explain my reason for so doing. As everybody is aware, the purpose of the Bill is to suspend the payment ofwater charges for nine months. The purpose of the suspension is to allow a so-called independent commission to consider the funding of domestic water services, refer its recommendations to an Oireachtas committee which will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date on the e-health strategy for Ireland; the actions that have been taken to date to bring this strategy in line with the European Union e-health action plan 2012-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20920/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 92. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community optometrists here; the number of service level agreements in place between the Health Service Executive and private optometry services for the provision of services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20921/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Contracts (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 293. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will issue guidelines to local authorities for the application of social contracts to council capital projects, such as social housing or libraries. [20534/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Contracts (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 301. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any barriers to local authorities including social contracts, similar to those used by central government in Grangegorman or Irish Water in capital projects, such as social housing construction or provision of other local services, such as libraries. [20531/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 298. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of moneys lost to local authorities in 2015 from the de-rating of Irish Water; the compensation made to local authorities through increases in the local government fund to offset these losses in 2015 in tabular form; and if these payments will be made again in 2016 and on a rolling basis into the future. [20528/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total savings to Irish Water arising from the de-rating of the utility in 2015; the total savings to the utility arising from de-rating in 2016; the portion of the total efficiency savings the de-rating saving represents by Irish Water in 2015 and 2016; and the rationale for de-rating Irish Water when other public...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider, as part of the housing action plan, providing local authorities with five- or six-year funding programmed for social housing rather than the three-year funding cycle that is currently in place. [20530/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 302. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to consider reinstating the 90:10 ratio for funding for local government homeless services as in many local authorities the funding ration has slipped to 70:30. [20533/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 323. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 5 July 2016 on funding allocated to the mortgage to rent scheme in the years 2013 to 2016 to date, the number of units approved housing bodies and local authorities acquired, by year, in tabular form. [21022/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 334. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish his action plan for housing and make arrangements with the Government Chief Whip to ensure there is a debate on it in Dáil Éireann prior to the 2016 summer recess. [21034/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Data (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 341. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total underspend from the Irish Water metering programme; and if these funds can be reallocated to other areas of capital expenditure by Irish Water in 2016 and 2017. [21249/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 564. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive speech and language therapy. [21059/16]

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: She could have the three minutes.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Deputies know, the housing and homelessness crisis is getting worse. Some 130,000 families are on local authority housing waiting lists, many waiting on average ten years before they have the chance of a permanent home. Over 6,000 people are sleeping in emergency accommodation tonight, as the Minister knows, over 2,000 of whom are children. These figures do not include the large...

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Consider the situation where a parent is at home one evening and receives a telephone call to say that their 17 year old son has been arrested while travelling abroad. He was exercising his right to assembly by attending a peaceful demonstration which was then attacked by state forces and, with a group of almost 400 people, fled in to a local mosque to seek shelter. We know this because...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Water Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance for details of the treatment of the debt portion of the Irish Water capital programme, for each of the years 2015 to 2021, in terms of how it impacts on the State's debt to gap ratio, and the calculation of the expenditure benchmark and fiscal space available to the Government in each of those years. [20246/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest estimated final expenditure for each of the three European Globalisation Adjustment Fund programmes currently in operation, in tabular form. [20247/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown for each of the years 2015 to 2021, of the Irish Water capital programme funding, broken down by equity and debt portions in nominal and percentage terms. [20246/16]