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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the local authorities and the ombudsman's office for their work, especially the work of their front-line staff. I acknowledge that. I have three questions for the DRHE and three questions for Dr. Muldoon and his team. A sum of €355 million for homeless services, predominantly emergency accommodation, is a huge amount of money. Does Ms Hayes have a breakdown of that spend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a prompt, from the data the DRHE provided to me on request, if a family with a three-bedroom need were going into emergency accommodation now, at the upper end, private emergency accommodation would be approximately €140,000 a year. For a family with a four-bedroom need, if they were to go into emergency accommodation now, the upper end would be approximately €180,000 a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the DRHE's own funded emergency accommodation coming from the Department? Is it something from within Dublin City Council? What does it say about the kind of expectation of what will happen with homelessness trends in the short to medium term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a signal that there is no expectation at this point, all things remaining the same, that the numbers are going to fall anytime soon. DRHE is going to invest a significant amount of capital in its owned homes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is hard not to feel utterly depressed at having this same conversation at yet another meeting of the Oireachtas housing committee. The child and family homelessness crisis really kicked off in 2014. I was on South Dublin County Council at the time. The total number of children in section 10-funded emergency accommodation at that point was 880. It has increased 442% in the intervening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the office has put anything in writing to the Department, could it be shared with the committee? The members would be interested in reading it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: By way of a preface, this committee spent a very considerable period of time last year trying to get both the Peter McVerry Trust and the Department of housing in front of it following the near collapse of the trust in the summer of 2023. Both the Department and the trust continue to refuse to come in until the two independent regulatory reviews were complete. I want to express my deep...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has that report been concluded and given to the Department and the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are there figures for 2025?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position which Ireland will take on the upcoming renewal of the memorandum of understanding between the European Union, Egypt and Israel on natural gas, specifically due to the lack of a territorial clause explicitly excluding the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34484/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether, in the course of the special EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 16 June 2025, he raised the unacceptable nature of the public comments of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen following her phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 241. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether his Department or the Defence Forces currently have any contracts with or purchase from a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34525/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims open for jobseekers benefit on 31 March 2025 before the jobseekers pay-related benefit scheme began; and if any consideration was given to retrospectively applying the new benefit to the cohort in receipt of the original payment.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33983/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current turnaround time for long stay employment visa applications for individuals with a general skills work permit submitted to an embassy (details supplied); the date range of applications currently being processed under this category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33532/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 412. To ask the Minister for Health if she will use her power to ensure a decision is made as a matter of urgency regarding an application for reimbursement of new medicines (details supplied) given lengthy reimbursement times and the detrimental impact delaying access to this medicine has on the medical condition to which it relates. [33380/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 413. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet with families of children living with a medical condition (details supplied). [33381/25]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 3, line 27, to delete “28 February 2026” and substitute “23 June 2028”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, line 11, to delete “28 February 2026” and substitute “23 June 2028”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, line 14, to delete “28 February 2026” and substitute “23 June 2028”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 4, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “Report on ban on rent increases 5. Within a week of the passing of this Bill the Minister for Housing will publish a report on the introduction of an emergency ban on rent increases for all private rental tenants, including existing tenancies, new tenancies in existing rental stock and new...