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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if it will be delivered with urgency given the demand for school placements in the area. [8413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement payments being made at present. [7627/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Like other committee members, I welcome anything that will make it easier to convert vacant units into accommodation. I have two specific questions. Will the Minister remind the committee what, if any, other planning requirements are in place? While an application for change of use is no longer required, what else is required? The reason I ask this is because previously the Minister and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for their information. I compliment the officials on this report. It is probably the best Estimates report that we have got in my time on the committee. We have been given a table on page 8 that sets out expenditure line by line. The report then goes on to explain it all in detail. That is helpful from the committee's point of view. I am...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come to that later.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear, the new figure is 375. The 1,000 to be delivered by the Land Development Agency will be turnkey in the sense that they are not part of the Land Development Agency's current pipeline. The LDA has told us that its current pipeline will not produce any new units until 2023 or 2024. Given that it was very difficult to deliver 390 turnkey cost rental properties last year and the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that, the challenge last year in terms of the cost rental equity loan scheme was that many of the homes provided only commenced construction last year. That is understandable. For the LDA to deliver 1,000 cost rental homes this year for purchase and tenancy in real terms those homes would already have to be at an advanced stage of construction. That is a fair point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not being adversarial but as I have only a few minutes I would just like some factual information.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it expected to be doubled?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the DAC?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (16 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the unnecessary delay in admitting homeowners with pyrite defective block in County Clare into the defective block remediation scheme; and when these homeowners will be admitted into the scheme. [8490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (16 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the general scheme of the enhanced defective block remediation scheme will be published; and if the enhanced scheme will be open to applications in 2022. [8491/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (16 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will list the outstanding affordable housing regulations; and when they will be published. [8492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (16 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of staff employed in each local authority housing department, by employment type, including architects, engineers, clerical staff, maintenance staff and so on, in tabular form. [8704/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (16 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of unfilled vacancies in local authority housing departments, by employment type, in each local authority. [8705/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (16 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the requests from all local authorities for additional housing department staff on foot of the announced new positions, by employment type and local authority, in tabular form. [8706/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but I am dealing with this year's Estimates. On the shared equity loan for which €44 million is allocated in the Estimates, is it correct to say that the Minister's hope is that with the banks' participation that will double to €88 million? Will the Minister also confirm if the regional caps are as they were previously announced in the media or if he is reviewing...