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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It would be worth taking a step back and reminding people why we are here today. The Chair's proposal to have these sessions and for the committee to produce a report is very important, so it is not merely a case of the witnesses coming here and telling the committee what they think and us responding; the purpose of these hearings is for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I ask just one supplementary question relevant to that? The Minister has made a big play about his new central Government standards for apartments, which obviously will have an impact in terms of the county development plans. Is there not an argument for something similar to be done in terms of design for housing for older people that we could get into the 30 or 40 county development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: My suggestion around central government standards was not to replicate the reduction of standards in apartments. It was a recommendation for a central guideline for local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is somewhat less than the average adaptation grant that is paid out by local authorities.

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: To reiterate Deputy Kenny's point, none of us should be here. More importantly, hard-working CE supervisors should not have to take time away from their families to travel up to the Dáil to listen to this debate. As all the Deputies who have spoken from the Opposition benches have made clear, we are here because we have a Labour Court recommendation which explicitly sets out what the...

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress he and his officials have made on examining the impact of the EUROSTAT reclassification of tier 3 AHBs to become part of the local government subsector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17858/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will meet with community employment supervisors and their trade union representatives to resolve the ongoing issues regarding their pension scheme; the reason there has been an apparent lack of willingness to fully honour the 2008 Labour Court recommendation on this matter; and the estimated annual costings for honouring the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 541. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence refuges and domestic violence step-down accommodation, respectively, in 2017. [17585/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed working group examining the impact of the EUROSTAT reclassification of tier 3 AHBs to become part of the local government subsector has been established and met; his plans to engage with the AHB sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17858/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households that have exited section 10 funded homeless accommodation in 2017; and the housing tenures to which they have exited. [17532/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless HAP tenancies created in 2017; the number of these used to prevent homelessness; and the number used to support persons and families to exit section 10 funded homeless accommodation. [17531/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated for and drawn down by all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in the first quarter of 2018, in tabular form. [17586/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all homeless households (details supplied) are being counted in the figures published monthly by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17818/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman. I do not mind waiting until the end because the discussion has been very interesting. I appreciate that part of Ms Hurley and Ms Spillane's job is to present the best possible picture of what their Departments are doing. I am also aware that they are extremely limited by resources. The reality, however, for many older people in almost all of our constituencies is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Moving on to the officials from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, I do not want to go too much into the adaptation grants because in some senses part of the Chair's report will be about much bigger items than that. The amount of €60 million odd is nowhere close to the demand that exists. In my local authority, and we are not unique in this, one can have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would be shocked if Ms Hurley could name a single instance in the greater Dublin region where that has happened in the past five years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do we know the total percentage of new units that go to older people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they ever happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Department apply the concept of universal design only to a certain percentage of dwellings because it covers a wide spectrum of things that could be built into the design of a property? Could there be elements of universal design in an increasing number of dwellings, with a percentage having an even higher level of universal design? The two are not mutually incompatible.