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Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. We need something more and specific on this particular problem. We have had some of the most appalling deaths. We have had rough sleepers beaten to death on the streets, allegedly for their mobile phones. We have had people taking their own lives in emergency accommodation or people dying through overdoses because of an inability to manage their...

Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: A good place to start would be to establish the number of these deaths annually. The information is based on media reports. While we have some data for Dublin, we do not have data from other cities. I encourage the Minister to look at that. I also encourage the Minister to look specifically at the recent increase in those deaths to see if there is something underlying it and if it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important to note that on the Shanganagh Castle site, which predates the Land Development Agency, we do not know if the purchase homes will be affordable because the LDA does not yet have a purchase price for them. The LDA has told Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council that the rental units will cost €1,300 a month, which is not affordable for many of the cohorts. On the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: On all the line sites.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not trying to shout down the Minister of State. It is just-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Funding (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional financial support will be made available to local authorities to make up for the shortfall in non-rates revenue and additional expenditure due to Covid-19. [28369/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Funding (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Sinn Féin has stated previously, we welcomed the significant revenue the Government is providing for local authorities to fill the loss of rates revenue. We are still unclear about what will happen with the loss of non-rates revenue and additional Covid-19 expenditure. I know the Minister cannot tell me how much may or may not be in the budget because he is still negotiating that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Funding (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. As he knows from what I said at the committee meeting, we will support the Revised Estimate tomorrow. I understand the CCMA has, in very detailed discussions with the Minister's officials, given ballpark figures for the non-rates revenue and the additional Covid-19 expenditure. They are not absolutely accurate. I would have thought it would have been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: While I welcome the call for housing, although we will have to wait to see what it produces, the real problem is that we are not producing enough one-bedroom units in the social housing pipeline. In my own constituency, the housing waiting list is over 4,000 households. The demand for one-bedroom accommodation is a staggering 43.5% of that figure. It was previously 33% but it has gone up....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the capital advance leasing facility rules will be amended to allow approved housing bodies to provide both social and affordable homes particularly when acquiring turnkeys from the private sector. [28371/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if provision will be made in budget 2021 for a latent defects redress scheme. [28368/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the increasing length of time it is taking to process HAP applications; and his further views on the impact the delay may be having on tenants. [28367/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his review on co-living. [28370/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Trade Agreements (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 153. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the status of the publication of a report commissioned on the economic and sustainability impact assessment for Ireland of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement. [28112/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans approved in principle and drawn down in each local authority area in the first two quarters of 2020, in tabular form. [28160/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if businesses that are accessing the commercial rates waiver can continue to do so if they are also on the vacant sites register. [28631/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he has extended the pyrite mediation scheme to County Limerick while refusing to do the same for homeowners affected by pyrite in County Clare. [28751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties that have been secured to purchase arising from his call for housing; a breakdown of the number of houses secured by local authority type and number of bedrooms. [28752/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which funding for the greyhound industry was spent in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, for example, the amount spent on welfare and on which initiatives, in tabular form. [28113/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I start by saying that there are nine sitting weeks left in the session, so not including this week, we will have nine meetings in this room. We can have additional virtual meetings but it is nevertheless a short period. I assume we will have at least one, if not two, pieces of Government legislation during those nine weeks for which we will have to provide time. These are the marine...