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

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. O'Mahony believe that the demographic studies should be a planning requirement or a planning requirement for developments of a certain size?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that a weekly figure?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Department also track for how long the discharge is delayed? As well as the numbers of people, does the Department have a sense of how long the wait is?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Mary Hurley is well used to this. We have her in every week.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing first tenancies created in 2017; the number of housing first tenancies created in the first quarter of 2018; and the number of housing first tenancies in operation by local authority area and by region. [18249/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Response to National Emergencies: Irish Water (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. On the management and timing of the information which was released, I understand there was a fear, both in Irish Water and the Department, that if people were alerted too early, it could lead to the hoarding of water which, in turn, could have created shortages of supply. I accept that is reasonable. Has there been any assessment, however, of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Response to National Emergencies: Irish Water (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What Mr. Grant is saying is that the additional use of water was overwhelmingly attributable to leaks of various sorts, be they private, commercial or public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is possibly the biggest infrastructure project in the history of the State. It is right that the committee should try to scrutinise it to the greatest possible extent. We all want to do the right thing in our engagements here and with the various parties involved and we are approaching it on that basis. I acknowledge the extent to which Mr. Grant, Mr. Quinn and their staff have made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has the Government given a timeline for the legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would Irish Water do it more speedily if resources were made available from central Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: If there is a screw-up, Mr. Quinn is the person who has to explain to us why it happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: When Mr. Grant appeared before us earlier, the impression we got was that the preference was for a fully State-funded scheme. When Mr. Quinn and the committee last met, he said that there might be other options, for example, a public-private partnership. Where does that discussion with the Government stand?

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rebuilding Ireland has a commitment to provide 50,000 social houses over the next six years. As we have been saying for some time on this side of the Chamber, a significant portion of those are not real social houses at all. Up to 30% of that 50,000 will be delivered through PPPs or various forms of leasing from the private sector, the most recent of which is a kind of PPP on steroids. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a date has been set for a meeting of the high level forum on community employment supervisor pensions; if his attention has been drawn to the anger and frustration of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; his views on the fact that their contribution to improving the life chances of scheme participants and to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (26 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the medicinal cannabis compassionate access programme; when the programme will commence; the categories of patients who will have access to it; the forms of medicinal cannabis that will be potentially available; and the process by which persons will be able to access it. [18441/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (26 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of outstanding funds from housing capital claim forms owed to local authorities as of 1 April 2018, by local authority area. [18440/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Strategy (1 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 214. To ask the Minister for Health when parents' representatives will be included on the primary care steering group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18567/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reviews (1 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 215. To ask the Minister for Health if the policy of in loco parentis will be reviewed in view of the impact this rule is having on families caring for children or adults with significant disabilities and special needs [18568/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (1 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list to be assessed and treated, respectively, for juvenile arthritis at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; the number of paediatric rheumatologists employed by the HSE; his plans to increase this to the required number, six; and his plans to bring the treatment time down from three years to six months, as...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (1 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 378. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has sought clarification as to whether all family hubs funded by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government have child protection policies in place (details supplied); and if all staff are Garda vetted. [18687/18]