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Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Ukraine War (13 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 102. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons from Ukraine who are being housed in private properties in which the owner is in receipt of the recognition payment; if he will provide an update on the number of pledged properties which have been deemed suitable for the placement of a person or family from Ukraine; the number of such...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody to the Select Committee on Housing, Local government and Heritage. The meeting today is convened to consider the Committee Stage of the Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan and his officials to the committee. We will commence our consideration of the Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: I will just bring in Deputy Gould to speak now, please, as he wishes to make a comment on this amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Gould and invite Deputy O’Donoghue to speak.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: Can I ask Deputy O’Donoghue to please stick to Deputy O’Callaghan’s amendment, which relates to a referendum?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: I ask Deputy Ó Broin to be brief.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: I call Deputy O'Callaghan to give the last word as it is his amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: If the Minister of State provides the committee with a copy of his note on the matter, we will discuss it at the meeting of the joint committee next Tuesday. I am conscious that our Senator members are not present. I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Message to Dáil (6 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 and has made an amendment thereto.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (13 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that her Department is taking to tackle the issue of food poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50429/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (13 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to bring forward the completed anti-racism strategy soon; the way in which he envisages that the strategy will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50214/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (13 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he will take to ensure that local authorities are adequately funding to address new noise mitigation requirements associated with road noise; if an action plan that identifies key locations that need to be addressed is already available at council level; if funding will be forthcoming to support same; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding changes to the cost rental equity loan scheme; if the total level of funding available from his Department that has been increased to account for these changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50818/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider supporting funding for travel passes to be used on all public transport services for staff of special schools, only to be used while travelling with their students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50962/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (12 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request that Irish Water and the Environmental Protection Agency investigate the cause of the confirmed presence of methylisoborneol in the water supply for County Wicklow and south County Dublin; if methylisoborneol has been found in other water supplies nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (12 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the allocation of Croí Cónaithe funding by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50557/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Oct 2022)

Steven Matthews: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the instructions and information that was provided to local authorities regarding the way to account for and administrate the purchase of a residential property in the context of a tenant being in receipt of HAP and the owner seeks to sell this property to the council; and if he will make a statement on the...