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Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: It is a help-to-sell scheme.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: The backdrop to the budget is a housing crisis that is being felt in every part of the country. We face intertwined problems of endemic homelessness, spiralling rents, insufficient social housing and a stagnant private market. For an entire generation, the basic aspiration of home ownership is slipping away. The dream of having a place to call one's own around which one can build a vibrant...

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: You are the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: The tail is too strong.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 34. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the September 2016 figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund which showed that 2,964 persons are waiting more than 12 months for an outpatient appointment in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30666/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 65. To ask the Minister for Health the reason ambulance services in Edenderry have been relocated to Tullamore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30667/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person can expect an appointment with the audiology department, Health Service Executive. [31069/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (20 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the assessment his Department has carried out on the impact of Airbnb dwelling usage on the rental market; his plans to regulate Airbnb dwellings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31446/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (20 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to publish the report of the inquiry into certain planning matters in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31447/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Data (20 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 231 of 14 June 2016 and 133 of 5 October 2016, when funding for Irish Water for 2016 will be decided; the total revenue shortfall in 2016 and 2017 when abolition of the water conservation grant is taken into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31449/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Data (20 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 231 of 14 June 2016 and 133 of 5 October 2016, if the shortfall in Irish Water revenue is anticipated to impact upon the Irish Water capital investment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31450/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Expenditure (20 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total underspend on phase 1 of the water metering programme to date; the estimated final underspend; if this underspend can be or has been re-allocated to other capital projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31451/16]

Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: There will be as many here as there were on Fridays last year.

Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: We were very fond of the Fridays.

Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: Are there 158 of us going to that?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners can provide the total number of properties registered by a company (details supplied) under the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 which imposes an obligation on an agent who is in receipt of rent or other payments arising from a premises to provide the information; the status of compliance levels; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has been in discussions with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in relation to the registration of short term stay accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32143/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of compliance levels with section 216A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in view of the use of short term guest accommodation websites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32144/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (25 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the process by which housing units are classified as single dwellings or as multi-unit dwellings for the purposes of sections 18, 19 and 22 of the Fire Services Acts 1981 and 2003 from which dwellings occupied as a single dwelling are specifically excluded; and if local authorities have any enforcement and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (25 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount his Department has allocated in 2016 for the refurbishment of vacant local authority social housing units; the number of applications for funding for vacant social housing refurbishment that were received by his Department in 2016; the local authorities which these were from and the number of...