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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. However, we can do that with design and build only, in the same way we can do it with design, build and operate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Elected members of Dublin City Council were being asked on Monday of this week to approve in principle the section 85, which just starts the process rolling. However, they are completely blind in terms of the financing of this. The bit of the question which the Secretary General did not answer is whether elected members, in local authorities or here, will be able to know what that benchmark...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Essentially, elected members in local authorities will be asked to sign up to this process although they will be completely blind to the extent of the potential financial liability, say, per unit delivered. With social housing, we know roughly - the managers will tell us - that, for example, in a big urban area the benchmark is usually around €200,000 per unit. Elected members are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: While I understand that, part of the role of elected members, whether in a local authority or here, is to say, "If I am being asked to sign up to something, if I am going to approve a Part 8 planning process and sign up to this section 85 and allow this project to go ahead, am I satisfied that it is a good use of taxpayers' money?" That is in no way to suggest that the people involved in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My problem is how this benchmark is established. I apologise to the Chairman, but the only reason I am pressing this is because local authorities must vote on it in the coming weeks. The information is time-sensitive. I go back to what is unique about the proposal. It is a 25 year management and maintenance agreement, as I understand it, so somebody somewhere will calculate what he or she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman for her indulgence.

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last week the Taoiseach promised legislation to amend the Constitution to give Irish citizens living outside the State the right to vote in presidential elections. In the same week he lobbied the US Administration for immigration reform for the undocumented Irish. While he was in the United States, the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland held a rally in Dublin calling for the same treatment for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability Programme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to publish a stability programme update in April 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13387/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will not be a reduction in the number of teachers allocated to a school (details supplied). [13954/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 23 February 2017, if the application of the rent pressure zone scheme to the rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment and social housing current expenditure programme leases was intentional or accidental. [13155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost to adequately upgrade the infrastructure in the wastewater plants in the 38 agglomerations across the State that are deemed to be in breach of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. [13292/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Recruitment (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the assistant principal officer position in his Department, previously held by a person (details supplied) will be filled; and the name of the senior official in his Department that is now responsible for liaising with a group (details supplied) of affected homeowners in County Donegal. [13385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the report of the expert panel examining problems that have emerged in the concrete blockwork of certain dwellings in counties Donegal and Mayo will be published. [13386/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 617. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason community employment supervisors were treated differently from CDP workers who were employed by community projects in relation to their pension entitlements. [12939/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not being provided with a nurse on call service; his views on whether it is acceptable that the person has remained in hospital for 13 months ready to be discharged but for the availability of the nurse on call hours; if he will compare the cost of keeping a person in hospital for 13 months with the cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the extension and refurbishment project for a school (details supplied); the reason the initial target date of September 2018 for the completion of the works and opening of the extension will not be met; when the project approval will pass to stage 2B; when a planning application will be submitted if it has not already been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Recognition (22 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has secured recognition from his Department; the location of the school; and the proposed enrolment levels and the relationship with a college (details supplied). [14401/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homes delivered and tenanted through initiatives set out in Rebuilding Ireland to bring vacant stock back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14607/17]

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a constituency politician - I am sure this is shared by all Members - I make regular referrals to both the Citizens Information service and MABS. My experience has been that they provide exceptionally high quality services which are rooted in the community and, crucially and relevant to this debate, managed very well by the community. One concern about this proposal, a matter which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total moneys applied for from the European Commission for a programme (details supplied); the total moneys matched by the State; the total spend from both portions of the programme funding; the total amount of money returned to the European Commission; the total spend for each programme head and per each State agency under the programme,...