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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (19 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of IS 465 is expected to be complete; and if the enhanced defective block remediation scheme can be open to applications prior to the completion of the NSAI review of IS 465. [25493/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise as I had to pop out to do some radio. I fully support the extension of the waiver. It is a very sensible move and we supported it when it was introduced. One of the very positive actions in the past year or year and a half is that we have seen these measures and the difficulties of many businesses, especially bars and restaurants, in having to try new things. Those new things...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I could add one point for the Minister's consideration, the last thing DCC wants to do is to have to enforce by removing outdoor furniture, for example, because the public will not necessarily know somebody had an opportunity to apply for the licence for free, was given several reminders and did not avail of it. DCC gets a bad enough rap for all sorts of things. Some of them are its...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Peter Burke, for taking this debate. I also thank the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, who contacted me earlier today as a courtesy to let me know he was unable to be present. However, as the Bill relates to a planning matter, it falls...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Renters need a break. We have had five years now of month-on-month falling supply. It is not just landlords leaving the market as they are taking rental properties with them as they sell them. Rents have never been higher and they are now higher than they were at the very peak of the Celtic tiger and continuing to rise. We have had nine straight months of a rising rate of homelessness of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 73. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office considers grants that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland provides for oil and gas-powered boilers under the retrofit schemes as subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry. [26226/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the microgeneration support scheme will be established; and when microgenerators will begin receiving payments. [25815/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if each State body (details supplied) is exempt from obligations under the Climate Amendment Act 2021 given that they are exempt from freedom of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, in tabular form. [25816/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the data required (details supplied) for a social impact assessment is collected as part of the warmer homes scheme under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's 2020 inconclusive social impact assessment in tabular form. [25817/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of VAT paid on solar panels in schemes administered by his Department.. [25819/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 10 May 2022, if he will outline the programme, proposed outputs and timeline for the pilot to achieve B2 retrofits in the warmer homes scheme. [25820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the cost of retrofitting a dwelling to B2 under the better energy community grant scheme. [25821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average depth of retrofit of each retrofit scheme in 2021 and in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25822/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the number of installed oil and gas-boilers from both the warmer homes scheme and the warmth and wellbeing scheme for the years 2016-2022, in tabular form. [26224/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of funds spent on installed oil and gas boilers from both the warmer homes scheme and the warmth and wellbeing scheme for the years 2016-2022, in tabular form. [26225/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that have received retrofit works from both the energy-efficiency obligation scheme and the retrofit schemes operated by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland per year for the years 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [26227/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the number of dwellings that were assessed for a heat pump for the years 2019 to 2022; and the number of dwellings that failed to pass that assessment for the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form. [26230/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retrofits completed per month under the warmer homes scheme in 2022, in tabular form. [25823/22]