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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (21 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Traveller accommodation funding drawn down by each local authority to date in 2020, in tabular form. [31918/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (21 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications; and the number approved and drawn down in each quarter of 2020. [31919/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (21 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average Rebuilding Ireland home loan amount that was drawn down in Dublin and outside of Dublin, respectively in each quarter of 2020. [31920/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Consultation Process (21 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of the organisations that made submissions to the public consultation on the general scheme of the water environment (abstractions) Bill in September and October 2018. [31930/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (21 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement payments being paid at present. [31921/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (21 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 171. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults and children remaining in direct provision centres after their leave to remain has been granted for the most recent date available. [31922/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (21 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 172. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults and children who accessed Tusla-funded domestic violence refuge accommodation to date in 2020; the average length of time families spent in such accommodation; and the number of beds available on a given night in 2019. [31923/20]

Latent Defects Redress Bill 2020: First Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish a Latent Defects Redress Board, the functions of which shall be, inter alia,to provide resolution to ordinary owners who purchased homes in good faith, in order that such owners have an opportunity to seek mediation or adjudication in relation to non-compliance with building regulations. As Deputies are aware,...

Latent Defects Redress Bill 2020: First Stage (22 Oct 2020)

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

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: For several years, many Deputies have been calling for a legislative ban on evictions in order to prevent homelessness. The Focus Ireland amendment, legislation very carefully crafted by one of the country's leading homeless charities, was tabled on up to five separate occasions during the previous Dáil but, each time, it was voted down by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. For several...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(4) Notwithstanding the interpretation contained in section 1(2), sections 2, 3 and 4 shall also apply to such persons living in dwellings with written license agreements, verbal license agreements and informal rent-a-room arrangements.”. This is a straightforward amendment. One of the...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “2. (1) An emergency period in relation to the tenancy of a dwelling shall be a period of at least six months from the enactment of this Act.”. Again, this amendment is self-explanatory.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It seeks to do what the eminent and-----

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, we can wait. That is okay.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment seeks to do what the very eminent Deputy O'Dowd proposed, and what Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and I are seeking to do, which is to introduce a six-month ban on evictions. I want to briefly address the issue of the Constitution and the advice of the Attorney General. As you will know as a legal professional, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, there is not a unified school of thought on...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be pressing the amendment.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, line 6, after "regulations" to insert the following: ", including restrictions on the number or type of persons who can enter a dwelling, in order to limit the spread of Covid-19 or". As I said at the outset, one of the weaknesses of the Bill is that the eviction ban is limited in its applicability to the triggering of the 5 km travel restriction by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) can be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32150/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has provided guidance or instruction to language schools teaching English to overseas students that prevents them from providing language classes virtually to protect the health of staff and students. [32121/20]

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: First Stage (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Housing Act 1988 to provide a legal definition of persons at risk of homelessness and to give the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and local authorities the power to provide such persons with supports to prevent them from becoming homeless. As Deputies know, the number of adults and children...