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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given further consideration to the Convention on the Constitution recommendations regarding citizens' initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44761/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a company (details supplied) has been awarded contracts for social housing projects funded by his Department in the past ten years; and if so, if he will now request an inspection of these units in view of the issues arising at schools constructed by this company. [44838/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Court of Justice Rulings (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the ongoing EU Commission and European Court of Justice legal action against the State for breaches of the urban waste water treatment directive. [45181/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Court of Justice Rulings (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost involved in remedying the wastewater treatment services in the 28 large towns and cities in which waste water treatment failed to meet mandatory standards according to the EPA urban wastewater treatment in 2017 and that are the subject to European Court of Justice proceedings for breaching these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all proposed social housing leasing and enhanced leasing projects; and the details of potential leasing or enhanced leasing projects such as pending applications for planning permission to which his attention has been drawn. [45111/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Irish Water has for the second time in 2018 refused to meet with a cross-party delegation of public representatives from County Donegal in relation to concerns they have regarding the water supply network in the north-east Inishowen area and the south Inishowen area; his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation in capital funding for each local authority for the provision of extensions to council dwellings for 2017, 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [45265/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation Expert Group (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Joyce for his opening remarks. I warmly welcome the establishment of the expert group. This committee has had a lot of discussions on Traveller accommodation and the failure of local and central government to spend funds allocated and to provide the housing included in the local Traveller accommodation plans. There is an openness among many of us on the committee to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation Expert Group (6 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two small points. Obviously, there has been a very public debate about the more excessive language used by Peter Casey during his presidential election campaign. One of the things that concerns me, however, is that in my experience much of the anti-Traveller prejudice that is most effective is the anti-Traveller prejudice that does not allow itself to be seen or heard publicly. It is...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody is suggesting that HBFI should lend at rates below market rates. I refer to giving HBFI the flexibility that it may act and lend at more competitive rates but still allowing for a commercial rate of return. The Minister of State's point does not deal with that. On the substantive point, I would much prefer to be tabling amendments to section 7. I am prohibited from doing that...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2:

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Data (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy grant applications received; the number of applications that reached claim stage; and the number of claims approved under the help-to-buy scheme since its inception in July 2016. [46007/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of buy and renew units delivered to date in 2018; and the average cost for each unit. [46002/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes brought into use to date in 2018 via the repair and lease scheme; and the average cost of each unit. [46003/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Agency Data (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units delivered to date in 2018 via the Housing Agency’s €70 million rolling Housing Agency fund; and the average cost for each unit. [46004/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications by local authority area to date in 2018; the number of approvals and drawdowns, respectively, by local authority area; the average loan amount awarded in each local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46005/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (7 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2018; and the drawdown to date for each local authority in tabular form. [46006/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person transfers from invalidity pension to partial capacity in order to take-up casual employment, the flexibilities there are in terms of payment of weeks in which little or no working hours have been secured. [46360/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would prefer not to be having a conversation about statistics and data because the longer we spend talking about them, the less time we spend discussing the real adults and children who are homeless and how we need to tackle their plight. If we do not have accurate data, we will not be able to adequately plan and implement solutions. This is echoed in many of the written submissions the...