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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The short answer to my question is that not a single unit will be delivered this year for affordable rental or affordable purchase under any Government scheme. While I welcome the commitment with regard to St. Michael's estate, the cost rental pilot has been in the pipeline since Deputy Alan Kelly was Minister. Not only has the pilot in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown not been delivered, but we...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister brings proposals to the committee we will work constructively with him on them. We have been told, for example, that 550 affordable homes would be delivered in the Poolbeg strategic development zone. The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government was helpful in assisting Dublin City Council and councillors in the community in getting that target. However, I am...

Other Questions: Election Management System (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Go on Bernard.

Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the appointment of a special expert group to review the legislation on Traveller accommodation. [26818/18]

Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State responsible knows, it has been one year since the publication of the review of funding for Traveller specific accommodation and the implementation of Traveller accommodation programmes. I acknowledge the very significant amount of work the Minister of State has been doing since the publication of the review to try to establish the expert group to work out how to...

Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. One of the startling figures from the report published last year, a report commissioned by the Department and the Housing Agency, was that, as the Traveller accommodation programmes progressed from 2000 to 2018, the incidence in meeting their targets fell. From 2000 to 2004, they hit about 90% of their targets. In the period from 2014 to 2018,...

Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I urge all Members of the House, including the Minister of State, to read the report of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission on inequality and discrimination in the housing system which was published this week. It confirms again, as did the Department's own report commissioned last year, that there is systemic discrimination against Travellers in the housing system. There is also...

Other Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Two of the concerns I have with the first round of LIHAF are relevant to the second round. Many of the larger funding allocations were granted to developers who do not actually need the funding. These developers have profitable cash reserves and would have proceeded with the developments within the same timeframe without the money. That is in direct contradiction to the original intentions...

Other Questions: Water Quality (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the response to the European Court of Justice legal action regarding the breaches of the urban wastewater treatment directive; the status of ongoing discussions with the European Commission and the Council on the revised drinking water directive; and his views on the possibility of additional European Court of Justice action...

Other Questions: Water Quality (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, as well as officials from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the Environmental Protection Agency, have voiced concerns about the revised drinking water directive the European Commission is considering. Will the Minister update us on his engagement on the matter? Has he been discussing it with the...

Other Questions: Water Quality (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister satisfied the levels of investment in upgrading wastewater treatment plants are sufficient to ensure we will not face further legal action? Does he have any estimate as to when the decision of the European Court of Justice will be made? Is he confident that the European Commission is going to return to World Trade Organization, WTO, standards in the revised drinking water...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a social and affordable public housing scheme will be publicly funded at locations (details supplied). [26815/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether those who bought their homes at the height of the boom and later discovered significant latent defects should be left to pay the cost of remediation. [26817/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the quality standards and inspection regime for all emergency accommodation. [26816/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two sets of questions that I will deal with separately. When the homeless figures for March were published as many as 578 adults and children were removed from the list. As a committee, we invited the Minister to come here to provide us with the detail as to why those people were removed from the list and allow us to properly interrogate the matter. He said that he could not meet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That was not my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a third report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it a separate report that has nothing to do with the two reports that the Minister told us about in two press releases and at our last committee meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The committee agreed to deal with the miscategorisation. It was not just me who wanted it to happen. I am more than happy to discuss the reports because there are many interesting things to say about them, but they are not what the invitation to attend the meeting was related to. The Minister has been invited in the first instance to help us to get to the bottom of this matter. If he is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before I move on to the two reports, I have to say the Minister's response is deeply unsatisfactory. We are confused because he will not give us the information he has available. One of my concerns about the reports is that we all know that the reluctance to engage with the HAP scheme is an issue. There is nothing new in the reports and there are no data to substantiate them. I am very...