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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of direct build local authority houses started or completed in each of the past three years to date; the extent to which he expects to increase this number in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17916/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has engaged with major house building firms with a view to the provision of the maximum number of local authority or affordable houses by county annually in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17920/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated time by which he expects a sufficient decrease in the number of applicants on local authority waiting lists to be made based on the number of applicants on local authority housing lists in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17922/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families likely to qualify for and obtain local authority houses for the remainder of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17925/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority houses under construction; when they are likely to be ready for occupation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17929/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority Rebuilding Ireland loans approved in each of the past three years; the extent to which he expects such approvals to increase over the course of the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17915/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private serviced sites on public land provided in each of the past three years to date; the number he expects to progress annually in the future with a view to addressing the severe affordable housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17917/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses made available directly to each local authority through Part 8 or similar schemes in each of the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17918/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses made available to tenants through each approved housing body in each of the past four years to date; the extent to which he expects an increase in this activity annually in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17919/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he has examined the prospect of engaging major building firms to build on contracts for local authority houses on public lands at a specified price per unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17921/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority housing applicants whose needs were met by Kildare County Council in each of the past four years to date through direct build or Part 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17923/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if income qualification thresholds for local authority houses are likely to be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17924/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take in terms of reform to address the issue of families having to spend more than half the family income to meet rent payments; if provision will be made by which families can compete with investors in the marketplace to provide themselves with a home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17926/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons registered as homeless by local authorities throughout the greater Dublin area; the number who have been successfully housed in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17928/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which particular attention can be given to ensure that the rural indigenous population can obtain planning permission in their own area within reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17930/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of emergency housing units available for use by each local authority to meet the growing housing requirements by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17931/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Diseases (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of bovine animals found to have failed the tuberculosis eradication test in each of the past ten years to date in respect of both the dairy and beef herd, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17927/20]

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (24 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Before moving on to the next business, I have to make an announcement regarding the appointment of committee Chairmen. I wish to announce for the information of the House that the Business Committee, acting as the Committee of Selection pursuant to Standing Order 34, has administered the allocation of posts according to the d'Hondt system, pursuant to Standing Order 104(2). A total of 18...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: The next item is the Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020, all Stages of which will be taken today.

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: We now move to the Sinn Féin party. Is Deputy Conway-Walsh sharing time?