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- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (12 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 5 December 2013, if he will provide a breakdown, based on each local authority administrative area, of the locations of the 25,731 units of accommodation which were provided by approved housing bodies following approval by his Department under its capital funding schemes up to...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (12 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended to extend the estate management powers of local authorities under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2009 to include tenancies supported by rent supplement or housing benefit. [53510/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (12 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended to extend the estate management powers of local authorities under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2009 to include tenancies acquired under the rental accommodation scheme where there is currently no statutory basis for tenant and estate management protocols and programmes of local authorities. [53511/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (12 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 5 December 2013, if his Department has a means of measuring engagement of approved housing bodies with the newly developed voluntary regulation code, Building for the Future, published on 15 July 2013. [53513/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (12 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 5 December 2013, if the proposed statutory regulation of approved housing bodies will include oversight of service level agreements between approved housing bodies and local authorities in respect of the management and maintenance of social housing units which may be either...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (12 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 5 December 2013, the recipients of the €10 million funding provided by his Department from 2011 to date through the capital advance leasing facility; the number of housing units provided by each recipient of such funding; and the locations of where funded units have been...
- Other Questions: Child Care Services Inspections (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 78. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is planned that residential child care centres run by private operators in which children in the care of the State are cared for will come under the inspection remit of the Health Information and Quality Authority. [53791/13]
- Other Questions: Child Care Services Inspections (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister told me that up to August 2013 there were 115 children in the care of the State who were placed in private residential child care centres, at a cost of up to €8,000 a week for some placements in HSE south. On a key point, given that there is a significant lack of public knowledge about the number of children who are placed in private residential care, why, as she stated...
- Other Questions: Child Care Services Inspections (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: On 12 March last I asked the Minister to provide a list of private residential child care centres, including the names of providers and owners and numbers of the staff and their levels of training and qualification, and she told me I would get that information by 21 November last. We are still waiting for it. I wonder whether that information could be transmitted. Recent media reports...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: The game plan is to sell the company to the private sector.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: It is about privatisation.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: I refer to the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004. I understand the Taoiseach had discussions last week with Ms Antoinette Keegan of the Stardust Relatives and Victims Committee regarding the possibility of establishing a commission of investigation into the Stardust tragedy in 1981, given the problems with the outrageous failure of the Keane tribunal-----
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: -----and the problems with the Coffey report. When the Taoiseach was canvassing in my constituency during the last general election campaign with Deputy Terence Flanagan, he might have given people a commitment-----
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: -----or a promise that he would establish a commission of investigation. It is a legacy issue.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: Some legacy issues have been dealt with, and I commend those involved. This is a painful legacy issue-----
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: The Taoiseach wants to say something.
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: I agree with many of Deputy Mick Wallace's comments. The Minister had an opportunity to bring in proper building control regulations but he has singularly failed to do that.
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: As with many other things, the Minister has flunked the challenge.
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: At the weekend the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, rightly said that much more housing is needed in the greater Dublin region and his comments included a caveat. He said: "The planning system will also be made less restrictive." A major programme of social housing in Dublin and throughout the country is urgently needed but the deplorable record of the Celtic tiger era is that the planning...
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister has abrogated his responsibility.