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Priority Questions: Rental Sector (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: Under no circumstances do we have a problem with home sharing and the options people have in that realm. This is about the other 30%, those who, on a full-time basis, offer their property for short-term lettings. Up to 2,000 of these properties will be available in Dublin tonight. I take on board the Minister's response, belated as it is, that recommendations will emanate from this task...

Priority Questions: Construction Costs (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the independent audit of residential construction costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9731/18]

Priority Questions: Construction Costs (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: We have consistently said that the key to solving the housing crisis lies in supply. They key to supply is affordability and the key to affordability is cost. We have been conscious of the excessive costs associated with development levies, certification, credit or finance, and VAT. In April 2016, the Minister's predecessor and now Tánaiste, Deputy Coveney, said that he would need an...

Priority Questions: Construction Costs (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: I have a simple question. The then Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, announced a plan for an independent audit of construction costs in October 2016. Is the Minister surprised we have not had that yet? He mentioned other recommendations that emanated from special design groupings within his Department and in conjunction with other bodies and so forth....

Priority Questions: Construction Costs (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: To bring it to a conclusion, will the Minister give a commitment to the House that this independent assessment and audit of construction costs will be published in the coming month to allow all parties and none on this side of the House to analyse and scrutinise that so that we can be in a position to make recommendations, perhaps including some that have already been made, but with the...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposed housing targets under the affordable purchase scheme in each of the years from 2018 to 2023, inclusive,; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9486/18]

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: Thankfully, the Minister introduced an affordable house scheme in January this year. Since 2011 Fine Gael has not delivered one such house. It scrapped the only scheme in place in 2012. Will the Minister outline to the House the targets he has set for the new scheme this year and in the forthcoming years, given that there are the same expectations of local authorities in the provision of...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: The Minister's answer is somewhat twofold. In the first instance, he has confirmed that no targets have been set. We would have expected a great deal of research to go into the preparation of the scheme and a great deal of groundwork to be done to allow action to be taken immediately to match the rhetoric. However, that is not the case. It is disappointing that the Minister is awaiting...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: The 2008 scheme might have yielded just 3,000 units, but I repeat that, irrespective of the Minister's contention about the Government's reasons for abandoning the scheme in 2012, since 2011 Fine Gael in government has not provided one affordable unit for any citizen. That is a fact. Will the Minister elaborate on and clarify his initial comments in response to this question? I have no...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: What about what happened in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018?

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: We were building four times more than the Government.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the working group review of short term lettings regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9485/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected capital funding for social housing per annum up to 2027 as announced in the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9483/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes refurbished through the repair and lease scheme since its inception; his plans to reform the scheme; the new targets for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9482/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the senior counsel review of planning inquires in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9484/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a proposed new school (details supplied). [9858/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 157. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [10279/18]

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: Answer the question.

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: I am disappointed with the Government's counter-motion. I support the motion but I do not support the designation of sites, as I believe that is a matter for Government in the context of Rebuilding Ireland, in which it is stated that together with local authorities the Government will source sites for this process. At the very least, I expected the Minister of State, Deputy English, to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when a hospital appointment will be expedited. [10711/18]