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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Data (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will go easy on the Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: What was the funding allocation to the expert commission on the future of water charges before and after the budget? The Minister was not able to answer that question previously but perhaps he can give us one today. Is he in a position to provide an update on the formation of the commission, when he expects it to start meeting and when it will publish its report on the future of water charges?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I spoke to Deputy Ó Snodaigh after the Business Committee meeting and he said the motion was not tabled, that it has been deferred until next week and, therefore, that will not come before the Oireachtas until the following week. That does not seem to tally with the Minister’s outline.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When will the committee meet and how often? Will the Minister indicate when he wants it to report because many of us are eager to get on with the work once the expert commission’s report is produced? Is it the Minister’s desire that the committee should hold hearings? My view is that it should not to so and that we should just deal with the report and move to make...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, we support the principle of mixed-tenure estates and want public landbanks used to the maximum public housing benefit possible. I urge that there be the greatest degree of flexibility possible from the Minister's Department in terms of the proposals chief executives bring forward. Different local authorities have different landbanks and sets of needs. In the case of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge and welcome the flexibility he has outlined. I urge him to consider other areas of flexibility. I refer to the affordable or cost-rental element of some mixed-tenure estates. There is a real value in considering local authorities being responsible for cost rental or affordable rental schemes, partly because it would increase the rent paid to local...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to direct local authorities to sell public land at low or below market rates as part of pillar 3 of his housing action plan; the public sites currently under consideration for such sale; the total hectarage of these sites; the number of houses that will be provided at these locations; the percentage of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The housing action plan refers to the potential for providing low-cost lands to private developers for the provision of private units at affordable costs. Last week, following the launch of pillar 3, there was media speculation about the low-cost sale of lands to private developers. The Department's website features a speech given by the Minister when he announced the 19 potential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to conduct a full and independent analysis of the staffless libraries pilot scheme on which the current roll-out scheme is based. [35444/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the continued roll-out of the staffless library scheme will not result in staffing hours being cut. [35445/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the engagements he or his officials have had with housing officials in South Dublin County Council in recent months regarding the provision of additional emergency accommodation in that council’s administrative area. [35452/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the contacts he has had with the Minster for Justice and Equality, relevant Department officials and local authority housing managers to discuss the difficulties faced by the 500 people who are currently in direct provision despite having refugee status; and if he will consider providing these persons with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the projected spend on housing for the lifetime of the Rebuilding Ireland plan broken down into capital and current spend for each year of the plan in tabular form. [35631/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the annual allocation of capital and current spend and the annual drawdown of capital and current spend by each local authority for each of the years from 2011 to 2016, in tabular form. [35632/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 289. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 18 October 2016, if the action 1.8 in the Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, which states that Tusla will provide additional emergency refuge accommodation spaces for victims of domestic violence, is the same as the extra eight family units that were promised for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of tenancies in RAS, HAP and any long term leasing programme; the annual cost to the State arising from these schemes and the number of tenancies who have transferred directly into HAP from rent supplement since the scheme was introduced. [35404/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (16 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of rent supplement; the total cost to the State per month arising from these payments; and the number of rent supplement claimants who have come off rent supplement and transferred directly into the housing assistance payment since that scheme was introduced. [35403/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (16 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of a transitional jobseeker's allowance that had previously been in receipt of a one parent family payment. [35402/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (15 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total funding provided to each local authority by his Department for homeless services expressed in monetary terms and as a percentage of the local authorities' overall housing budgets, in tabular form; the reason his Department's contribution to homeless services has been declining as a percentage of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (15 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of design build operate contracts and design build contracts in water services in operation here; and the estimated cost of the remaining life of these contracts, with a breakdown of the annual cost of these contracts. [35122/16]