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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I think I am required to make a quick comment if I am to table further amendments on Report Stage. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The sudden cut-off of the foster care allowance is difficult and problematic. The Minister should consider some form of transition payment once people have formally adopted. The two items which may be the subject of further amendments are the regulation of adoption agencies and permanent guardianship. I will refer to these matters in more detail at a later stage.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 25 October 2016, his views on the low drawdown level of funding by local authorities for Traveller accommodation; his further views on whether all of the funding will be drawn down by the end of the year; and the action he will take against local authorities who...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the ongoing review of the social housing approval, procurement and tendering process committed to in action 2.11 of the action plan; and if he will respond formally to the four recommendations contained in a policy briefing paper number that his office received on 3 November 2016. [35454/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (22 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that Cork City Council can remain financially viable; if he will take steps to remedy the underfunding of same by the Government; the steps he will take to rectify the loss of funding from changes in commercial rates caused by Government policy; and the way he will assist putting...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (22 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he intends to take to ensure that Cork City Council can remain financially viable; his plans to take steps to remedy the underfunding of same by the Government; the steps he intends to take to rectify the loss of funding from changes in commercial rates; and the way he intends to assist putting Cork City...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (22 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 415. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent audit at Mercy University Hospital, Cork, by HIQA (details supplied); his further views on the high infection prevention and control risks revealed in that report; the steps he will take to rectify the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35889/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (22 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the review of practices at Oberstown detention centre will be completed; if the review will be published before the end of 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35861/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (23 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Teachtaí Gerry Adams agus Micheál Martin raised this morning the recent number of suicides in Cork and the Taoiseach referred to some of the interventions which were made afterwards. I am from the communities to which the Taoiseach referred. Those interventions were actually sought and initiated by the community. While I commend the HSE and the services that assisted and provided...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (24 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is entitled to a rebate under the help to buy incentive scheme if they take out a mortgage for 90% of the build value. [36661/16]

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Cuirim fáilte roimh mhuintir de Barra anseo tráthnóna inniu agus déanaim comhbhrón leo. I pay tribute to a former Deputy, Minister, Ard Mhéara and freeman, Peter Barry, somebody who made a very substantial contribution to life in his country and city. He remains held in the very highest regard and his service to his country was considerable. I particularly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is entitled to a rebate under the help-to-buy incentive scheme if they take out a mortgage for 90% of the build value. [36863/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the guidance his Department has provided to local authorities regarding the circumstances in which a person in receipt of HAP and who is on a transfer list for the local authority will be housed by that local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36866/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the process by which council budgets are developed; the legislative provisions that govern the manner in which amendments are made by elected members during the course of a meeting at which a budget is voted upon; the guidance his Department has offered in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has considered revising upwards the income limits under which persons can apply for social housing, in view of the considerable rise in housing rents and the current Central Bank rules governing mortgage approval. [37333/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has considered changing the income limits for social housing for the area of the southern division of Cork County Council, in view of the fact that it is largely part of the same housing market as Cork city. [37334/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the schemes that exist to assist persons whose incomes are marginally above the income limits for social and affordable housing, but for whom being in a position to save for a large enough deposit under the current Central Bank mortgage rules would be impossible; and the way in which such persons could obtain...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if it is currently within the gift of local authorities to offer loans or mortgages to applicants seeking housing; if not, if his Department has considered supporting or facilitating such loans or mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37332/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for any future affordable housing schemes. [37331/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (29 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to provide, in legislation or otherwise, for applicants on housing lists to obtain HAP, housing assistance payment, from the local authority of which they are an applicant, to obtain a property to rent within the jurisdiction of another local authority and that HAP payments be directed towards this,...