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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE intends to establish a primary care centre at an address (details supplied); and if so, the services that will be available to the community once established. [50802/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an issue presenting at a medical centre (details supplied) where initial consultations for patients experiencing menopause are over twice as expensive as general consultations, and repeat prescriptions for treatment for menopause are charged at three-times more than other repeat prescriptions; his views on whether this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an issue presenting at a medical centre (details supplied) where initial consultations for patients experiencing menopause are over twice as expensive as general consultations, and repeat prescriptions for treatment for menopause are charged at three-times more than other repeat prescriptions; his views on whether this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 438. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken research to ascertain the costs of providing financial assistance to patients on hormone replacement therapy for menopause; if his Department intends to introduce financial assistance for these patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50921/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (12 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the French proposal to tax private jets at the informal meeting of transport ministers in Prague on 20-21 October 2022. [50395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (12 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce a green certificate for homes where there is evidence of Pyrite but not yet of physical damage, and where the home is not currently eligible for redress under the Pyrite Resolution Board. [50465/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that PhD students who are not funded by SFI and IRC have been excluded from receiving the bonus payment announced in Budget 2023; if this will be reconsidered and amended to include all PhD students given the current cost-of-living situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50662/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to some PhD students who have been deemed ineligible to receive the SUSI postgraduate grant due to their date of birth at the time of application, despite being financially independent of their parents in advance of the application and despite their turning 23 years of age in advance of beginning their PhD...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I wish to acknowledge the very significant work they and their teams do, particularly in the housing and homelessness section. It is not lost on members of the committee that often that very significant work at the front line goes unacknowledged. I want to convey my thanks and my party's thanks to their staff. I wish to discuss the targets....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Homeless HAP would probably bring it up to about 25,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The council's social housing target, between the builds and the buys, is about 9,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. O'Reilly know roughly how many new households come onto the housing list each year? Obviously, it is not just about the total number of people who need housing now but also the emerging need. Is that a calculation the Department asks the council to factor in when working out the targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Roughly what comes onto the list each year? I acknowledge it is difficult to say.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. What about in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would it be fair to say in the case of both councils that the targets that have been set will meet about half of the total current need but not take into account emerging need as we go? For Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, it is a little higher for social housing. If there are 25,000 households in need of social housing, and the target is higher than the 9,000 set by the Department, it will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a possibility in either council that even with the delivery of those targets, challenging and all as they are, the gross need at the end of, say, 2026 could be similar to what it is now because the total number of people looking for social housing in both local authority areas is growing? Therefore, while something will be taken off the HAP transfer list, gross need could be not far...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would it be fair to say that in Mr. Curran's local authority, like in others, the list has come down almost in proportion to HAP going up and that there is a relationship between those two figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept that. I will ask my final question because I am almost out of time. On the affordable target for Dublin City Council, between it, the approved housing bodies and the LDA, the figure is 4,000 affordable homes to 2026, or 800 homes a year, although they will not get to them until 2024 or 2025. The figure for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is 1,549. Given the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is less than the council's own housing needs demand assessment.