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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider his opposition to placing an obligation on platforms and letting agents to ensure all properties are complaint with new planning regulations in view of the low level of compliance with short-term letting regulations. [45236/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the concerns raised in two letters to him by a person (details supplied) regarding a lack of resources available to the Residential Tenancies Board to implement and enforce the new regulations which came into force in July 2019 and the concern that the late fines for landlords that failed to register with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the capital allocation for building works at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin. [45305/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Illegal Fireworks (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider strengthening the law to prevent the illegal or reckless use of fireworks and deal with the rise in the dangerous use of fireworks during the Halloween period. [44194/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers returned to Zimbabwe in each of the years 2012 to 2015. [44917/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home help and-or support in County Longford; and the number of home help hours cut per week due to staff illness or shortages in the county. [44942/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 935. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by South Dublin County Council for sports capital funding for a sports pavilion programme, including the provision of a pavilion in an area (details supplied). [44929/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a caravan rental or rent-to-buy scheme that will provide residential standard mobile homes for Travellers will be developed. [44344/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the general scheme of the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill; and when he plans to publish the Bill. [44684/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan who have been refused the authorised mortgage protection insurance can avail of private insurance; and if so, the criteria for approval of such own sourced insurance. [45251/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adults and children that exited homelessness in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by local authority area in tabular form [45318/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of emergency accommodation per night per household by local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45319/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are relaxed in the committee so that is not a problem. I have eight questions but first I want to put on the record that it is precisely on an occasion like this that the value of the Environmental Protection Agency is proven and I want to commend the witnesses on the audit reports, which are short, concise, clear and easy to understand for those of us who are not specialists. It gives...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of follow-up questions to those I asked in the first round and some new ones. To go back to what happened between March and October, in the regular engagement with Irish Water is there any engagement with or notification of the Department in particular, for example, if a concern arises over slippage of the original deadlines that are given in the Irish Water report? Is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: So the slippage is not a surprise. The Department is made aware of it continuously throughout the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: When was the report last published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: So the EPA would have called out the slippages that we are talking about here in relation to Leixlip in September.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the record, the EPA supplies its annual report to this committee as a matter of course. It presents it to this committee and has done so for three years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support the point the Deputy is making. He said nobody in this room knows about the list but all I am saying, in deference to the EPA, is that at our request three years ago, it circulated the reports to the committee because we have responsibility. Its representatives come in and take questions, following which Irish Water representatives come in and take questions. I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Deputy Darragh O'Brien said this is having an enormous impact on people right across the six local authority areas affected. Deputy Breathnach is correct that any boil water notice is wrong. This is the single largest boil water notice we have ever had. It is six times greater than the total number of people affected by both boil water notices last year. It is also important that part...