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

Eoin Ó Broin: Part of the problem is, precisely as the Minister says, an increasing reliance on leased properties instead of real social housing. The reason I use the phrase "real social housing" is because it was used in the unanimously endorsed report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness. The Minister claims to be meeting the committee's recommendation when the figures very clearly show that...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: First, I never called for the Government to acquire fewer units for local authorities. What I wanted it to do was to continue to acquire and to increase building. I keep coming back to the report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness because that cross-party report set out the minimum that this House believed the Government needed to do to tackle the social housing crisis. Again, we...

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the information of the Minister, the political situation in Dublin City Council has moved on from that original land initiative decision. A majority of councillors have supported a motion of the housing strategic policy committee to request that this project is taken out of the land initiative for the purposes of the funding model and that the Department fully funds it through Exchequer...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the water abstraction licensing regime legislation as required by the water framework directive. [19785/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the appointment of an expert group to review the legislation underpinning the Traveller accommodation programmes. [19787/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes priced between €170,000 and €280,000 that will be delivered under the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF. [19786/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of work to reverse the EUROSTAT decision to redesignate approved housing bodies as part of the Government sector. [19784/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to spend the €25 million fund for affordable housing announced in budget 2018. [19783/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he plans to commence the review of the legal protection offered to complainants in sexual assault cases announced in April 2018; and if an opportunity for persons and families affected by sexual assault and rape to provide an input into the review will be ensured. [19627/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address issues (details supplied) regarding the miscategorisation of persons in local authority homeless figures. [19742/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Approved Housing Bodies (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged consultants, other outside bodies or persons to conduct research, provide advice or assistance on the issue of the recent EUROSTAT designation of approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20342/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Prosecutions (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if guidelines are in place with respect to prosecutions in court here for overseas offences; the type of official from the overseas jurisdiction that must testify that the offences are offences in their jurisdictions; the guidelines in this regard; and if none exist, when such guidelines will be put in place. [20399/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 600 persons which he claimed on 30 April 2018 in a Departmental press release had been miscategorised as homeless by local authorities that had tenancy agreements at the time of the alleged miscategorisation; and the number that were in short-term ad hoc accommodation arrangements provided by local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has engaged consultants, other outside bodies or persons to conduct research, provide advice or assistance on the issue of the recent EUROSTAT designation of approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20343/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Local Property Tax: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Councillor McGinley for the very detailed presentation and documentation supplied. I shall make a comment rather than put a question. There are occasions when something is so badly designed and so unfit for purpose that trying to tinker around the edges will not solve the fundamental problem. I am as convinced today as I was when this tax was first introduced that the LPT is not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (10 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a report (details supplied) on the local employment services will be released; if not, the reason therefor; and when it will be released. [20645/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of recipients of the housing assistance and homeless housing assistance payments by area and household income at the time of entry to the scheme at 12 and 24 months in the scheme as appropriate. [20922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the development of five year strategic plans by each housing and disability steering group. [21322/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of assessment of housing needs which were carried out with disabled persons in each local authority area since the publication of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016. [21323/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units of accommodation which have been provided for persons with disabilities since the publication of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016 based on assessment of housing needs carried out by each local authority. [21324/18]