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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is undertaking a review of construction procurement policy; the review terms of reference; the person or body on the review panel; when the review is due to conclude; and if he will provide an interim update on the review. [26765/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the quarter 2 2020 social housing pipeline report will be published. [26571/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the quarter 2 2020 social housing pipeline report will include the number of projects that will fall under the new one-stage approvals process; and the number of units that will be delivered by the fast-tracked projects. [26572/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policy Reviews (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the national architect policy; and if a draft of the policy will be brought to the housing committee before agreeing same. [26764/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review into co-living; the person or body leading the review; the number of meetings that have taken place of the review group; the terms of reference of the review; and when it will conclude its work. [26868/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 as amended by section 13 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 to include foster parents in the definition of qualified parent for the purposes of determining eligibility for the one-parent family payment. [26650/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 856. To ask the Minister for Health if the current Covid-19 restrictions in maternity services will be removed to allow partners and birth partners of pregnant women to be present for prenatal scans, appointments, labour and at childbirth [26648/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 830. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patient discharges from hospitals in which patients were discharged to no fixed address including bed and breakfasts, hostels, hotels and so on to date in 2020, in tabular form. [26570/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the proposed timeline for the online portal for forestry appeals and information regarding its form; the information fields available; and the legacy and historical information available. [27121/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the proposed timeline for the online portal for forestry appeals; the information fields that will be available; and the legacy and historical information that will be available. [27206/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Appeals (30 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his consideration of the Planning Regulator's report and recommendation on overturning the planning permission for the east Cork retail park; and when a decision will be made on the report. [27448/20]

Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2020: First Stage (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. As Deputies across the House will be aware, the housing crisis has not gone away. Rents are still unsustainably high. In fact, the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, index published last week shows rents have increased 1.8% State-wide in the last 12 months and 3.3% outside of the greater Dublin...

Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2020: First Stage (6 Oct 2020)

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

Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the opportunity speak about what is essentially a crisis in the arts, culture and entertainment industries. The Minister is correct that more than 35,000 people are employed across a range of professions. While much of this debate has focused on the front-of-house artists and performers, and rightly so, there is a panoply of people employed in these sectors, including producers,...

Priority Questions: House Purchase Schemes (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the affordable housing plan. [28829/20]

Priority Questions: House Purchase Schemes (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: On five occasions in July after he was appointed, the Minister made a very public commitment to announce both the details, targets and regulations of his new affordable housing scheme in September. That month has come and gone and we are very keen to hear as much about the scheme as possible. When he is going to announce it? Will he give us as much information as is possible at this stage...

Priority Questions: House Purchase Schemes (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will all judge the Minister by what he does and not what he says, and he would say exactly the same thing if the tables were turned. My question, however, was on when the scheme will be published and whether the Minister could give us more detail than what he has said until now. My concern is that, on the basis of what he has been saying in the media recently, a large portion of what the...

Priority Questions: House Purchase Schemes (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The focus has to be on bringing down prices, both to rent and to buy. I have made a number of suggestions to the Minister and his predecessor, including amending the capital advance loan facility, and allowing approved housing bodies to purchase turnkey developments, many of which would be available to purchase now because of the slowdown in Covid-19 private sector supply, to deliver them as...

Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his policy response to the increase in the number of deaths of persons accessing emergency homeless accommodation and-or sleeping rough. [28830/20]

Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, we have had a significant increase in the number of tragic and untimely deaths of people accessing emergency accommodation or sleeping rough. By August of this year, we had 39 reported such deaths in Dublin city alone. That is more than the 30-odd people who died last year and the year before in the city. We are also hearing similar reports from Galway and Cork....