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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Resolution Processes (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for mortgage-to-rent since the scheme was introduced; the number of applicants who have been improved; and the number of mortgage-to-rent sales closed by year since the scheme was introduced. [42040/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital funding owed by his Department to each local authority by capital funding type, that is, social housing, retrofitting, maintenance, adaptation grants and so on, in tabular form. [42035/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he proposes to take to tackle advertised rental properties which consist of less than the 29 square metres per person as recommended in the report furnished to him by his Department’s planning division on co-living shared accommodation. [42080/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that priority is given to residential developments that are within 15 minutes' walk or 15 minutes morning peak hour public transport accessibility of a high density employment cluster, defined as 500 workers per hectare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42081/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Kelly and Mr. Lemass for their presentations. This is the fifth year in a row in which, in the final two weeks before the summer recess, very substantial planning and residential tenancies amendment legislation has been dropped into existing Bills that are before the Dáil. There are several problems with that. None of the points I will make are a criticism of either of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: What sort of fine would we expect in the Derrybrien case if it was to go to the middle of next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will be somewhere between €15 and €20 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a concern that this could open up problems for the legal standing of substitute consents that have been approved to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just want to clarify public participation in the context of the last two questions. Is it in phase 1 and phase 2? Will it be all aspects of the existing cases, including documents and information concealed, and the exceptionality test?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a key piece for us to understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay, no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come back in later if I get a chance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not a question that requires a response but a number of us do have more detailed questions on the substitute consent. Our difficulty is that we must table amendments at 11 a.m. on Thursday and we have not yet seen the final text of the Department's amendments because it has not been published. We will have to consider amending things that have yet to be published. Without in any way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so we are clear, this means we will not be in a position to potentially amend the Government's substitute consent text, which is really a standalone piece of legislation. Other than us giving an opinion on it while on Second Stage, Members of the Dáil will have no ability to seek to amend any of that because of the way this is being set up. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The issue is that effectively no member of this committee or Member of the Dáil will be able to seek to amend the substitute consent portions of the Bill because that would only be approved on Committee Stage on Wednesday and will then go straight on to Report Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is no criticism of the officials here but that is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, that is no criticism of the officials, but it is the first time this has ever happened during my time in the Oireachtas. I would like my discontent recorded in the minutes. Again, that is no criticism of Mr. Lemass or Mr. Kelly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 632 of 3 November 2020 and 297 of 1 December 2020, the difference between the average social housing capital investment figures for Dublin city in 2019 and the SHCIP projects on which both sets of figures are based in tabular form. [42732/20]

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing my time with a number of colleagues. Finbar and Mary are a working family. Finbar has a full-time job and Mary has a part-time job. They have young children. They are just above the threshold for eligibility for social housing. They were renting accommodation for approximately €1,200 a month but got notice to...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: On Monday of this week, I launched "What is the True Level of Homelessness?", a short report of which the Minister was highly critical before he departed the Chamber earlier. It is clear that he has not read the report, so I will summarise it for the Minister of State. A monthly report is produced by the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government and it reports the number of...