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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to ensuring bicycles and powered personal transporters have a built in sounder to aid road safety for users of these vehicles and pedestrians. [34414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the increase in the use of bicycles known as fat bikes; and if he plans to regulate their usage on public roads and pathways. [34413/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Data Centres (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of data centres whose construction was supported by the REITs. [34735/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure in 2020 on payment and availability agreement payments to approved housing bodies; the number of tenancies covered by these agreements; the current expenditure allocation for 2021 on payment and availability agreements to approved housing bodies; the expected number of tenancies this expenditure will cover;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the costs approved for the delivery of social housing through both bundle 1 and bundle 2 of the public private partnership projects; the monthly and annual payments to each consortia involved in bundle 1 and bundle 2; the number of years over which these payments will be made; the breakdown of these payments by construction,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the systems in place to ensure that building products such as blocks are manufactured to appropriate standards; the systems in place to ensure that materials from quarries used in building products such as blocks are appropriate for such purposes and are being secured from licensed quarries; the level of inspections by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the financial contribution scheme for older persons is in operation in the four local authority areas in Dublin; and the qualifying criteria for the scheme. [34391/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes completed and the number of social homes in the pipeline availing of the one-stage approval process; and the number of those delivered to date and in the pipeline to date that have availed of the one-stage process since the threshold was increased. [34465/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties offered, purchased and tenanted under the Minister's call for housing in August 2020. [34466/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Q1 and Q2 social housing pipeline reports will be published. [34467/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on staff shortages in the fire service; the number of hours that fire engines were out of service due to staff shortages in the fire service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34736/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 412. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to use the powers under section 19(9) of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 to issue a statutory instrument providing greater clarity and guidance to directors of owners' management companies. [34277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a primary medical certificate. [27745/21]

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020: First Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as amended) to provide for a prohibition on rent increases for all existing and new tenancies for three years. Rents are simply far too high. There are more than 300,000 registered rental tenancies throughout the State. Three-quarters of a million people live in the private...

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020: First Stage (30 Jun 2021)

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

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support this group of amendments. A grouping list has not been circulated. Not that it is essential but if there is one that could be made available to members, it would be of great help. One of the perplexing things about the Land Development Agency is why, under its Fine Gael proposition and now under the proposal in front of us from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party,...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will stick to discussing the Bill and the amendments in question. For four decades, housing policy expert after housing policy expert has been calling for an active land management agency, a strong State agency with a significant budget and comprehensive CPO powers. The job of that agency would be to amass land holdings and, working in partnership with the appropriate State agency, assist...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are happy to support this group of amendments. It seems to me from listening to a number of Government backbenchers that they just do not understand the reason we need an active land management agency, despite the fact that for 40 years, report after report, including Government reports, have explained why it is needed. Unless there is an active land management agency whose sole function...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: My big fear is that, just like NAMA, in years to come-----

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----we will be sitting at a Committee of Public Accounts with serious controversies-----