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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concern is twofold. With respect to the affordable housing fund purchases, in my own constituency homes were effectively completed midway through the year but because of disputes over legal contracts, they have not yet been purchased. We expect them to be purchased by February. That means those homes were not ready for occupation. In the Minister’s constituency, he launched...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the regulations for and the opening of the enhanced defective concrete block redress scheme. [3597/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister to give us an update on the regulations underpinning the enhanced defective block remediation scheme for homeowners in Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Limerick and an estimated date for when this new scheme will be open for homeowners in Donegal and Mayo and also for those in Clare, Limerick and other counties.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. My understanding is that of the four local authorities which received the draft regulations at the end of last year, the one in Donegal is refusing to give the Minister’s Department a formal comment because it is not allowed to discuss the regulations with its elected members. I welcome the fact the Minister has asked the SCSI to update the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that for defective blocks?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister, I suppose, is right that people can continue to apply but, as we know, there is a very significant number of people, particularly in Donegal, who are not able to get through stage 1. Part of that is because of the restrictions on IS 465. From what our committee was told, it is unlikely completion of the review or changes to the scheme, in respect of the National Standards...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is except for those who are stalled, that is, the 500 who are stalled at stage 1.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is just shy of 500.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Land Development Agency cannot get these lands. It does not have the power to get these lands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is statistically not true. There are 90,000-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is deflecting and distracting from his own failure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government is not meeting its targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Agreed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Planning is not the problem. Lack of Government delivery is the problem.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on unsold affordable homes; the number of homes currently occupied by social housing tenants; and if tenants can purchase the homes as per their contracts. [3587/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the CALF and CREL reviews; and the number of CALF and CREL homes delivered in 2022. [3596/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the principal changes to apartment design standards set out in the Guidelines for Planning Authorities published in December 2022; and if this set of guidelines fully supersedes the two previous sets of guidelines published in 2018 and 2020. [3593/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the implementation of the 32 recommendations from the Expert Group Report on Traveller accommodation. [3595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg SDZ, St. Michael's Estate, O‘Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road. [3594/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the research by or on behalf of his Department into premature deaths of persons experiencing homelessness. [3810/23]