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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (4 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 232. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which his Department first discussed the option of using modular housing units to house persons experiencing homelessness with representatives from Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38420/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (4 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 233. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to address the cost of €185,000 to build one social housing unit; if he expects this cost to reduce in 2016; and if so, to what price; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38424/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if water charges will be billed to modular housing units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38426/15]

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Jimmy Tully did it.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Dublin people are in homeless accommodation. They are in emergency accommodation and the Minister is responsible.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I do not like people being called Dublin-centric. What kind of nonsense is that?

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Perhaps we need a Dublin Minister.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: We should have a Dublin Minister.

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report to Dáil Éireann on the implementation plan for the State's response to homelessness and the Government's action plan on homelessness; if he will outline the Government's achievements under both plans; if he will say how much remains to be achieved before the end of this Dáil; and if he will...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: We on the northside of Dublin have seen very few of the new units to which the Minister of State referred. Reference was made earlier to the 3,600 individuals on the Wexford housing list. We have almost double that number in Dublin Bay North. Among the 750 families in emergency accommodation are 1,600 children. The Minister has published the draft planning and development (urgent social...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Housing is their first need.

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister for his reply. The first need of people is housing. When will the Minister make an announcement in the House about rent certainty? When I called four years ago for rent controls that request was met with howls of protests from Fianna Fáil and, later on, from Fine Gael. The work of those two parties down through the years in relation to development and rent has...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: That is the problem about the-----

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: That is the reality of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael - the iron alliance.

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: When can we expect an announcement on rent certainty? The Minister will be aware that Senator Aideen Hayden has done a lot of work with Threshold on this matter. When will he make an announcement on it? The Minister did not respond to my question about the draft planning and development (urgent social housing supply) directive, which I read very carefully. Is that a direction to the...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: In relation to the directive which the Minister issued, which I am sure the Ceann Comhairle has also read, what are the implications of it? Approximately 18 months ago, on the final sitting day prior to the Dáil going into recess, we had a debate on housing policy, at which time the Minister could have taken the line of equipping the local authorities with the capital funding needed to...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: There were needed 20 or 25 years ago.

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I was calling for them then too.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new social housing units that have been made available in each local authority area in 2015 to date and that will be made available before the end of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38220/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Equality Legislation (5 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Equal Status Act 2000 will be amended to repeal section 7(3)(c) to ensure that all children will access their right to education without discrimination on religious grounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38837/15]