Results 381-400 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 92. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community optometrists here; the number of service level agreements in place between the Health Service Executive and private optometry services for the provision of services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20921/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Contracts (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 293. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will issue guidelines to local authorities for the application of social contracts to council capital projects, such as social housing or libraries. [20534/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Contracts (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 301. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any barriers to local authorities including social contracts, similar to those used by central government in Grangegorman or Irish Water in capital projects, such as social housing construction or provision of other local services, such as libraries. [20531/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 298. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of moneys lost to local authorities in 2015 from the de-rating of Irish Water; the compensation made to local authorities through increases in the local government fund to offset these losses in 2015 in tabular form; and if these payments will be made again in 2016 and on a rolling basis into the future. [20528/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total savings to Irish Water arising from the de-rating of the utility in 2015; the total savings to the utility arising from de-rating in 2016; the portion of the total efficiency savings the de-rating saving represents by Irish Water in 2015 and 2016; and the rationale for de-rating Irish Water when other public...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider, as part of the housing action plan, providing local authorities with five- or six-year funding programmed for social housing rather than the three-year funding cycle that is currently in place. [20530/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 302. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to consider reinstating the 90:10 ratio for funding for local government homeless services as in many local authorities the funding ration has slipped to 70:30. [20533/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 323. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 5 July 2016 on funding allocated to the mortgage to rent scheme in the years 2013 to 2016 to date, the number of units approved housing bodies and local authorities acquired, by year, in tabular form. [21022/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 334. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish his action plan for housing and make arrangements with the Government Chief Whip to ensure there is a debate on it in Dáil Éireann prior to the 2016 summer recess. [21034/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Data (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 341. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total underspend from the Irish Water metering programme; and if these funds can be reallocated to other areas of capital expenditure by Irish Water in 2016 and 2017. [21249/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 564. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive speech and language therapy. [21059/16]

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Bill is designed to allow the electoral register to be used for the purposes of selecting the members of the citizens' assembly. I will only speak about the technical aspects of the Bill and not the broader issue of the assembly itself as that was well debated earlier. Sinn Féin will oppose the Bill because this is the wrong data source and the wrong organisation to oversee the...

Social Housing Bill 2016: First Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to provide for an increased percentage of social and affordable housing in private residential developments and in strategic development zones. Deputies are aware that the housing and homelessness is getting worse. Tonight 6,000 people will sleep in emergency accommodation and...

Social Housing Bill 2016: First Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 184. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive surgery. [21793/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (14 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if it is acceptable that the Health Service Executive does not provide occupational therapist support to local authority tenants in Clondalkin and Lucan, County Dublin for the purpose of providing reports for disabled and mobility adaptation grants, while providing such occupational therapist services for local authority tenants in the Dublin 24 area; his...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The launch of the housing action plan is a significant event. It is particularly significant for the 4,152 adults in emergency accommodation, an increase of 160 on the previous count, and for the 2,206 children who will sleep in emergency accommodation tonight, an increase of 29 on the previous count. It is also significant for all the people who are sofa-surfing or living in overcrowded...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is the promise of a strategy and we will engage constructively with the Minister in the Dáil Chamber and in the committee whenever he develops the strategy but there is a lack of firm, hard commitments not only on the long-term development of the private rental sector but the type of legislation on tenancy terminations or the purpose and outcome of a review of standards. There...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 343. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the average length of time for social housing projects to complete the four stage approval process; and the average length of time to complete each of the four stages. [22316/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 344. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for social housing at Saint Finian’s Avenue, Lucan, County Dublin. [22317/16]