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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: If our questions are brief, the board may be able to reply to all three of us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief. I am a strong advocate of compact growth and increased density. I have never objected to a residential housing development anywhere. I have made submissions to try to improve them, but I make a point of not objecting. I had much sympathy with comments Ms Kenny made in a personal capacity last year which got her into a lot of trouble. However, we must be honest with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to launch his new affordable housing plan. [35579/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to announce the detail of his shared equity loan scheme for approved housing bodies and private sector home purchases. [35580/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to issue the methodology for the housing needs demand assessment to local authorities as part of the development plan review process. [35581/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish his Department’s new rural housing planning guidelines. [35582/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to circulate to local authorities the updated development plan guidelines. [35583/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for being late. I suppose, in some senses, today's discussion is less about policy because that is really for the Minister and the programme for Government. This is more about how the Department sets out those policies in a strategic statement. I will restrict my questions to those areas rather than policy areas because that is for another meeting. Many of us are interested,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department in its previous form, as the Department with responsibility for the environment, used to produce an annual book of statistics. It was normally produced at the very end of the year or the start of the subsequent year. It provided a great deal of statistical data on outputs from the Department and from local authorities. I highly recommend that as a practice that could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just want to emphasise the need for greater data on local authority outputs to be collated by the Department as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the presentation and for the information. There are three sets of questions. With respect to the homeless Supplementary Estimate, is all of the additional €60 million going to the Covid-related provisions, as the Minister outlined, or is there an opportunity for some of that funding to address some of the other specific issues that have arisen this year?...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: St. Cuthbert's Park is a medium-sized park in south-west Clondalkin, in my constituency, which is surrounded by some 2,000 houses, comprising both council housing and private homes. The people living in Bawnogue work very hard and pay their rent or mortgage and their taxes, including the property tax. They contribute enormously to the very vibrant local community. For example, the Friends...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for his attendance. As he knows, the funding mechanism for this project is something called the housing land initiative, which predates the formation of this Government. It is wholly inappropriate for delivering good quality public housing on public land. There is an alternative, which the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The land initiative was only ever used as a financing mechanism because central government would not give local authorities the funds required to develop sites themselves. It was partly because funding was slashed after the recession of 2008 and then after the recovery because Fine Gael did not want to invest. It makes no sense to allow 50% of the homes on public lands to be sold at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review on co-living; and when he plans to publish the review. [36245/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority houses accessed annually for accessibility for disabled persons. [36932/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the local authority housing stock currently available that is accessible for disabled persons. [36933/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanisms in place for assessing the effectiveness of the National Housing Strategy for Persons with a Disability 2011; and the impact it has had on disabled persons’ lives. [36934/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing supports available for disabled persons that do not qualify for social housing supports. [36935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the ongoing EU Commission and European Court of Justice legal action against the State for breaches of the urban waste-water treatment directive. [37016/20]