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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (1 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 604 and 605 of 24 April 2018, the number of exits from homelessness in 2017 to local authority housing, approved housing bodies and the private rental sector by preventative interventions and exits from emergency accommodation for individuals and households, respectively in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (1 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding plans to regulate the short-term lettings sector; and when same will be published. [19124/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Abstraction Regulation (1 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the water abstraction legislation as required by the water framework directive will be published. [19125/18]

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: First Stage (2 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 to give students living in student specific accommodation under license the full protections of the Residential Tenancies Acts, including access to the Residential Tenancies Board and inclusion in the rent...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: First Stage (2 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Pages 26 and 27 of the programme for Government contain a series of commitments to tackle the homelessness crisis. Obviously having accurate data for the numbers of people in emergency accommodation is vital to track the progress or otherwise of these commitments. On Monday the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government alleged that local authorities had wrongly included 600 people...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a temporary basis.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is disgraceful. The Minister is deliberately misleading the House.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is doing a disservice-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is shocking.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shame on the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will continue to publish monthly homeless figures; and his plans to amend this to quarterly or other less frequent publications. [19459/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the councils that miscategorised persons in monthly homeless reports; the months on which persons were wrongly included; the number of persons in each of these months in this regard; when the persons were removed; the reason his Department did not catch this earlier; the adjusted figures for each month in which there was a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last Thursday, I accused the Minister of wrongly having families in emergency accommodation or who are homeless removed from the March homeless report. I spent much of Friday and early today talking to senior officials and front-line staff in local authorities and voluntary sector organisations and I am more convinced now than I was last week that the vast majority of those families are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That response from the Minister is astounding. He seems to be claiming on the one hand that local authority owned or leased properties cannot be considered emergency accommodation, yet 63 units in Tallaght Cross, in my constituency, owned by a local authority are emergency accommodation and the families in that accommodation are included in the March figures. Likewise, hubs are leased by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is changing the definition of emergency accommodation. The families in Tallaght Cross are in emergency accommodation. They do not have a tenancy agreement and there are key workers, which the Minister's Department funds, to try to move them into permanent accommodation. The idea that because somebody is left languishing in emergency accommodation for two years the Minister is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not by fiddling figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason 428 fewer real social houses, that is, units owned by local authorities and approved housing bodies, were delivered in 2018 than were delivered in 2017 and his views on whether this drop indicates a problem with the speed and scale of real social housing delivery, particularly within the local authority sector....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is very fond of quoting the report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness and its key recommendation for the State to deliver 10,000 additional real social houses every year over five years. That report defines real social houses as units owned by local authorities or approved housing bodies. The real social housing output last year was around 6,297 units. These are...