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Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:“That Dáil Éireann calls on the Government to abolish household water charges and fund investment in water and sanitation infrastructure through progressive taxation.” Here we are again. It is a little like Groundhog Day. A majority of voters want water charges scrapped. A majority of Deputies in this House also want water charges scrapped and yet the...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is still passion in politics.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is plenty of time yet.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was Labour Party policy in 2009.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will send the Minister of State an e-mail.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will not speak at the end of the debate.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for capital funding for two new classrooms by a school (details supplied). [28169/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools located in the Dublin mid-west constituency that have applied for capital funding; the number that have been allocated capital funding and have had applications refused; and the number of applications that are pending for 2016, 2017 and 2018. [28170/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used by his Department for deciding on applications for capital funding by junior, senior and post primary schools. [28171/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the stakeholder consultation report on the national planning framework, arising from the consultation events that took place in June 2016, has been published; and if not, when the report will be published. [28094/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if funding can be released to allow site enabling works on the highlighted piece of land at Shangan, Ballymun, for affordable and senior citizens units. [28174/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the expert panel currently investigating the issue of mica defective concrete blocks will publish their report or an interim report. [28487/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has been consulted on and sanctioned the harvesting of seaweed in Roundstone Bay, County Galway by means of new technology provided by a company (details supplied) to local harvesters; and if all the relevant licences were in place and environmental impact statements completed before the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Potential (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has received a report on the extent of land folios existing here with appurtenant seaweed harvesting rights attached to them; and the way these may interact with current legislation or the proposed marine area and foreshore amendment Bill; and if he will be making that report available to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Potential (4 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress which has been made by his Department to implement the recommendations in the May 2015 report of the former Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on developing the seaweed industry in Ireland. [28543/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the decision to discontinue with the ministerial directive that instructed local authorities to allocate 50% of social housing to homeless and other vulnerable households on the grounds that the research report on which the decision was taken is fundamentally flawed. [28800/16]

Other Questions: Library Services (5 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the rationale for the proposed use of staffless libraries; and if he will reconsider the introduction of this policy in view of opposition from library staff and local communities. [28699/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (5 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money being provided to the expert commission on water charges; and if the money is coming from existing departmental funds or additional funds secured from Government. [28698/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (5 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of former rental accommodation scheme and rent supplement persons who have transferred across to the housing assistance payment, HAP, while remaining in the same property in real terms and as a percentage of the total number of live HAP tenancies. [28807/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (6 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the figures for homeless persons nationally and in the Dublin region; and the number of these persons who have been deemed not entitled to be on a social housing waiting list nationally and in Dublin. [29045/16]