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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take prior to publishing his action plan for housing to deal with the rising level of family homelessness, given the dramatic rise of 86% in the past 12 months, that 2,177 children are homeless, that an increasing number of families are being forced to self-accommodate and that local authorities are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, the number of families presenting as homeless continues to increase. The lack of emergency accommodation, particularly for families with children, means two acute problems are being experienced. The first is that a large number of families are being asked to self-accommodate, that is, to leave the homeless sections of the local authorities and to ring around to try to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he is taking to ensure that the Glass Bottle site in Dublin 4 will have the maximum level of social and affordable housing possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18480/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his understanding on the status of a resolution for Longboat Quay residents; and his plans to introduce comprehensive building regulations so this does not happen again. [18479/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 24. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the nature of legal advice both his Department and Irish Water have received relating to article 9.4 of the Water Framework Directive and the derogation within; and if he will publish this legal advice. [18489/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal Charges (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to deal with price increases in the event that at the end of the 12-month freeze on bin charge increases, bin companies intend to proceed with significant price hikes. [18485/16]

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: All six of us.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where the functions relating to waste management, regulation of waste collection companies and regulation of recycling facilities will be located after the division of the existing Department of Environment, Community and Local Government into two new Departments. [18001/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 186. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of infringement action by the European Union Commission against Ireland on the State’s failure to comply with the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive; the specific actions required to be taken to meet compliance requirements with the directive; and the amount it could cost to meet the requirements of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of design, build and operate water treatment water plants here and the cost of these public-private partnerships. [18130/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount provided to councillors for conference expenses by local authority in each of the years 2012 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [18207/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the State and a breakdown by local authority of the representational payment made to councillors in each of the years 2012 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [18208/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the State and a breakdown by local authority of the annual allowance made to councillors in each of the years 2012 to 2015, in tabular form. [18209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the composition of the €522 million, including what portion is expected to come from Exchequer funding and what portion from Government borrowing or equity or debt financing, regarding the €522 million allocated for Irish Water capital investment in 2016, as per the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the composition of this €533 million, including what portion is expected to come from Exchequer funding and what portion from Government borrowing or equity or debt financing, regarding the €533 million allocated for Irish Water capital investment in 2017, as per the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 7 July 2015, why officeholders who pay under the pay-related social insurance payment class of K do not receive any social insurance entitlements; and if he will reconsider his Department's position on this. [18210/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Homeless Persons Supports (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 313. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he will issue a response to the concerns raised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in correspondence dated September 2015 on housing and water provision for homeless persons in County Cork; and his approach to the provision of water and sanitation services for the homeless. [17933/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 367. To ask the Minister for Health why he declined an application by a person (details supplied) under the home care package; and if he will request the Health Service Executive to reconsider providing this. [17935/16]

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit for tabling this Private Members' motion, which Sinn Féin will support, and the Independents 4 Change for their amendment, which we will also support. Listening to the debate over the past number of days has been a little bit surreal. The dramatic hike in proposed bin charges is indisputable. These are not rumours but actual...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: None of these people has savings available under the Minister's scheme. The bottom line is that SI 24 is not fit for purpose and that is why Sinn Féin firmly agrees with the sentiment of the motion. It was not written correctly and it will not have the impact the Minister says it will have. The best thing to tear up the statutory instrument and start again from the beginning. We...