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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is everybody else’s fault but yours and your Minister's. You are in charge; take responsibility.

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his opening statement. I thank Deputy Joan Collins who initially requested the debate, primarily to give us an opportunity in the Dáil to discuss the conclusions and outworking of the negotiations between water services workers, Irish Water, the County and City Management Association, CCMA, and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know this was outlined to us in advance on the previous Stage and I appreciate fully that accountability to the Committee of Public Accounts is an innovation but the Water Advisory Body does more than an appearance or two appearances per year at the Committee of Public Accounts. It is also made up of very different people, including environmental activists and people with expertise in...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The argument here is not that the Committee of Public Accounts should not have the role prescribed in the legislation. I think we all support that. It is a very good thing. For all the criticisms many of us have of Irish Water, it has also made itself available to our committee regularly and in very detailed form. That is not the question I am asking. The makeup of the Water Advisory...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “Referendum on the right to water 5.The Minister shall, not later than 2 months after the passing of this Act, lay a report before the Oireachtas Committee that— (a)proposes the wording for a referendum on the public ownership of water infrastructure, (b)sets out a timeline for the...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy would have to get permission from the people of Fermanagh because the water starts there.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Climate Action Plan (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all commitments related to his Department in the climate action plan; and if he will provide an update on the implementation of each of these commitments in tabular form. [54689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all vacant properties identified by the local authorities, an organisation (details supplied) and his Department, to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for conversion into multi-unit emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees in tabular form. [54409/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the membership of the cross-departmental working group on building defects; its terms of reference; the number of times that it has met to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes delivered under various schemes (details supplied) for each of the years 2020 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [54498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for the shared equity local scheme; the number of approvals; if he will provide a breakdown of approvals by loan-to-value at 90%, 85%, 80%, 75%, 70%; if he will provide a breakdown of draw-downs by loan-to-value at 90%, 85%, 80%, 75%, 70%; the average house price for all approved applications; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of stage 1 approvals for social housing projects by local authorities that have been refused in each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of such refusals in each local authority; and if he will provide a summary of the grounds on which these stage 1 approvals were refused. [54679/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 26 October 2022, if he will confirm that the Department has requested local authorities to exclude any category of household currently recorded on the PASS system from the date sent to his Department for the monthly homeless report; if so, the category of household, who they are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the planning fee for use of land as a burial ground is more than three times higher than the planning fee for the provision of a house. [55282/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Medical Aids and Appliances (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that ceiling track hoists are not provided for under the Housing (Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability) Regulations 2007; if he will provide an update on his engagement with the Department of Health as to a suitable resolution regarding the funding of hoists; and when ceiling track...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce any flexibility on the 12-month income rule for determining social housing support eligibility in cases where persons have lost their jobs but whose previous income still places them over the threshold. [55440/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next electoral boundary review will be established and concluded. [55640/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to make funding available to trainee educational and child psychologists in 2023/2024, as is available to such trainees in 2022/2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will undertake a review of the assessment for DEIS to take into account demographic changes, particularly changes in areas where housing was traditionally owner-occupied but is increasingly rented with State support. [54420/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (8 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department intends to provide administrative support to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54421/22]