Results 301-320 of 14,298 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (21 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs how much it costs per year and per unit, for each of the years from 2012 to 2016 to date, to fund the 141 family accommodation units available in refuges, for those experiencing domestic violence, in tabular form. [17021/16]

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: All six of us.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where the functions relating to waste management, regulation of waste collection companies and regulation of recycling facilities will be located after the division of the existing Department of Environment, Community and Local Government into two new Departments. [18001/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 186. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of infringement action by the European Union Commission against Ireland on the State’s failure to comply with the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive; the specific actions required to be taken to meet compliance requirements with the directive; and the amount it could cost to meet the requirements of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of design, build and operate water treatment water plants here and the cost of these public-private partnerships. [18130/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount provided to councillors for conference expenses by local authority in each of the years 2012 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [18207/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the State and a breakdown by local authority of the representational payment made to councillors in each of the years 2012 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [18208/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the State and a breakdown by local authority of the annual allowance made to councillors in each of the years 2012 to 2015, in tabular form. [18209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the composition of the €522 million, including what portion is expected to come from Exchequer funding and what portion from Government borrowing or equity or debt financing, regarding the €522 million allocated for Irish Water capital investment in 2016, as per the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the composition of this €533 million, including what portion is expected to come from Exchequer funding and what portion from Government borrowing or equity or debt financing, regarding the €533 million allocated for Irish Water capital investment in 2017, as per the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 7 July 2015, why officeholders who pay under the pay-related social insurance payment class of K do not receive any social insurance entitlements; and if he will reconsider his Department's position on this. [18210/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Homeless Persons Supports (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 313. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he will issue a response to the concerns raised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in correspondence dated September 2015 on housing and water provision for homeless persons in County Cork; and his approach to the provision of water and sanitation services for the homeless. [17933/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 367. To ask the Minister for Health why he declined an application by a person (details supplied) under the home care package; and if he will request the Health Service Executive to reconsider providing this. [17935/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take prior to publishing his action plan for housing to deal with the rising level of family homelessness, given the dramatic rise of 86% in the past 12 months, that 2,177 children are homeless, that an increasing number of families are being forced to self-accommodate and that local authorities are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, the number of families presenting as homeless continues to increase. The lack of emergency accommodation, particularly for families with children, means two acute problems are being experienced. The first is that a large number of families are being asked to self-accommodate, that is, to leave the homeless sections of the local authorities and to ring around to try to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: While many of these measures are welcome, and Sinn Féin has welcomed them publicly, none of them address the specific question I put to the Minister. We have a situation right now in the city of Dublin that when a family including children presents as homeless there is not enough emergency accommodation and these people are sent away to telephone hotels to try to find emergency...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: What will the Minister do before the action plan is implemented to ensure families are not left sleeping on the streets?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I emphasise that in April, 35 families were turned away by local authorities. The number of families in May was 55, and more than half of these were subsequently deemed to have a need for emergency accommodation. I understand and welcome the fact the housing action plan will be published early, and I hope we will have time to debate it in the House and in the new Oireachtas committee, but...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When a family presents as homeless to a local authority, they have to provide evidence of the reason for their homelessness. If they have been put out of private rental accommodation, evidence of notice to quit is sufficient, but the homeless agency tells us that about 28% of families are presenting as a result of family relationship breakdown. It is very difficult for many of these...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, it does not involve just one case. The Focus Ireland intake team carried out research in April and May. In April there were 35 families who were turned away, many of whom were subsequently deemed to be in need of emergency accommodation. They were turned away from the local authority because, acting on the criteria it had been given by the homeless agency, it considered they...