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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail what funding heads A14 and A18 within his Department's annual voted expenditure related to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25558/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the construction costs and the all-in development costs per square meter, for social housing projects delivered via SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, Part V, CAS construction and CAS turnkey, in tabular form; and if he will provide a further breakdown of this information...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the staffing levels for the National Building Control Office since 2020; if he will detail all requests for additional staff from the NBCO since 2020; the additional staffing that has been sanctioned and recruited since 2020; his views on the very significant concerns expressed by the NBCO to his Department officials...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm from when Irish quarries and concrete producers had to comply with I.S. EN 12620 (details supplied). [25890/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Childcare Services (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the proposed policy to help protect and provide more allotments and community gardens in Ireland; if he will provide a timeline for when the policy is expected to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25926/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will set out his response to the recommendations contained in the RTB report on illegal eviction requested by him in August 2020 under section 151(2) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and the additional recommendations set out by the RTB in its cover letter to him of 23 November 2022 accompanying the report; if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the extension of the €14,000 rent-a-room tax relief to social housing tenants; how it will interact with their differential rent both in terms of how the income of the licensee will be treated and how the additional income to the social housing tenant will be treated for the purposes of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether changes have been made to guidance for dealing with HAP tenants in arrears in their differential rent; and if so, if he will outline the changes. [26187/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 711. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 11 May 2023, if the HSE has initiated a recruitment process to staff the primary care centre at Boot Road, Clondalkin. [25956/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list to access a first appointment with gynaecology services in Tallaght University Hospital; the number waiting over one year for a first appointment; and the number waiting over five years for a first appointment. [26211/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (31 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of a consequence of delays in NCT testing whereby people who have had to wait a number of months to access an NCT test are then due for their annual NCT again a short number of months later; if it is correct that this results in two tests within the same 12-month period; and if there are plans to address this issue given...

Retained Fire Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: expresses its admiration and appreciation to the Retained Firefighters who keep our communities safe across the country at huge personal sacrifice to themselves; recognises: — that Retained Firefighters are restricted from travelling outside a radius of as low as 2.5 kilometres of their station without first obtaining permission, which has a...

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: When I read the Minister's amendment to the motion I thought he was simply not going to make things better. Little did I know that when he read the text of his speech he would make things immeasurably worse. The mood with which the retained firefighters present in the Gallery walked out just as the Minister was finishing his remarks speaks volumes. There is a fundamental flaw at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everyone for the presentations. The opening statements deal with a wider range of issues than was the intention of the committee. They are all important issues but I want to focus specifically on the interaction between the utilities and developers in new residential construction, both in terms of the demand-led approach that Mr. O'Connell spoke about and then also the future...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a round robin. It is really to invite people to contribute and we might have a second round for those who we miss.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To go back to why we take witnesses from their day jobs and bring them in here to answer our questions, we are keen to try to explore ways to improve things. I acknowledge there is a lot of very positive information in what today's witnesses have shared with us, as well as some of the challenges, but this committee is useful only if we take these opportunities to inform ourselves. We try to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question was not about that debate. That is an argument we will have on another day. It was more that it is interesting that there is a very significant difference in the number of water connections and ESB connections in a given year. It would be interesting for us to know if there is a reason for that difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The train station for Clonburris that was built 15 years ago would fit into that category, strictly speaking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise in advance because I must attend the Dáil Chamber for a debate shortly. I am delighted that reference was made to the Housing Infrastructure Services Company, HISCo because they do not get talked about enough. When the full final analysis is done of local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF and the Housing Infrastructure Services Company, HISCo, it would be very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is such a mechanism in the general scheme of the land value sharing and urban development zones Bill where there would be an option for the local authority to compulsorily purchase the land at a discount, which is minus the land value sharing component, where the land is not being developed. That is specifically in the context of UDZs and not dissimilar to the Irish Planning Institute...