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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected residential population to be developed in each of the SDZs in the country. [44386/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide estimates by local authority in terms of hectares and as a percentage of total development land, from State land management studies his Department has undertaken in preparation of the national planning framework of lands and development sites owned by the State either directly or indirectly and that is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the inclusion of national policy objective 18b in the national planning framework in view of the concerns over the potential legality of local needs planning criteria for one-off housing; the legislative and policy impacts that will ensue if case law demonstrates that such local needs criteria are not compatible...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I am sharing time with my colleagues. I compliment Deputy Healy for having tabled the motion. Like all of us, he is obviously frustrated with the lack of progress we have seen in this area in recent years, despite the best intentions of many. I note in his motion the various references to the Constitution and to articles concerning the right to housing. The House agreed some weeks ago...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Loans (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the role his Department has in setting out the criteria for successful applicants to the recently announced Home Building Finance Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45248/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if funding given to approved housing bodies for building social housing is counted towards general government fixed capital formation estimated by the CSO for EUROSTAT. [44374/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Applications (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44803/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for departmental guidance on short-term letting planning permission and regulation requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45016/17]

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: P. O'Neill.

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: Mistrust.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I wish to provide clarification on foot of what has been said. As far as I understand the average household occupancy previously referred to by the CER was 2.6. A two-person household is more than accommodated, as is a three-person household and a four-person household. When one goes beyond that there is provision for clarification to be sought in the event of the use being over the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I am very clear on it. The average number per household is four. If it is multiplied by 1.7, it brings the number up to 6.8. Therefore, a one-person household has a 6.8-person consumption level and all the way up. A family of eight can apply for an exemption based on the eighth person and get it. It is very simple. It is in somebody's interest to confuse us or try to generate some...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: It is stated in three or four places. It is in the proposed sections 53A(2)(b) and 53A(4)(b)(ii). The average usage figure is no longer 2.6. It is based on four persons. That is the instruction to the CER in the legislation. Is that correct? The multiple thereafter is 1.7, which results in the figure of 6.8. If the Deputy wants to confuse people or let them think the provision does not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I am not going to get into an argument, as much as those concerned want me to do so to give the impression that people will get their cheques back or that they will not receive bills again in the future. If that is what they like some people to believe, that is their business. That is the audience to which they are playing. As far as I am concerned, however, the recommendation from the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: The bottom line.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I support this proposal, which is something I have raised with the Minister in the past. I had hoped he would bring forward his own proposal in this regard but, in the absence of such an amendment, what is proposed here is suitable. It allows almost for the full application of the confidence and supply arrangement in respect of Irish Water. The latter is without question a public utility...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: Will the Minister undertake to correspond with the committee as soon as is practically possible in order to allow us to consider the matter further in advance of Report Stage? If the Comptroller and Auditor General is adamant in his advice that the 1993 legislation will require amendment, I take it the Government will proceed with that approach in order to cater for what we are proposing...

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: Various members have spoken in the last hour about the great importance attached to this document in creating the national planning framework for the coming years. I agree with that, but at the moment it only has the potential to be important and make a difference. When I go through this document there is a deficit. I do not see that the ambitions contained within each chapter of this...

Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “exigencies of the common good” and substitute the following: “further notes: — that this House has passed several motions and legislation pertaining to the housing crisis over the past number of years and the Government has had four housing Ministers, four policies and numerous launches since 2014; — that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the finding of the European Committee of Social Rights that Ireland has substandard social housing conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45567/17]