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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the house completion figures published by his Department are a true record of the actual number of new homes being built. [20103/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the criticism of his Department's house completion figures by persons (details supplied). [20104/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on allegations detailed to him by a person (details supplied) alleging breaches of planning regulations; his plans to address the allegations; if he has satisfied himself that his Department and the county council have responded adequately to the allegations raised by the person; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the housing data analytics group was established; the names of the persons that sit on the group; the number of meetings it has had; and if he will make public the minutes and reports from this group. [20647/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 545. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason community employment supervisors were treated differently from CDP workers that were employed by community projects in relation to their pension entitlements. [19686/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1482. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there is a procedure whereby a person (details supplied) can rejoin the Naval Service despite now being over the age limit. [20186/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government commits to the building of 25,000 new homes every year through to 2020. The Minister, Deputy Coveney, has claimed that 14,932 new homes were built last year. However, a number of experts have strongly disputed this figure, suggesting that the actual number could be as low as half that. This criticism has been supported by the recent release of the CSO housing...

Other Questions: Stroke Care (3 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 10. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of rolling out early supported discharge programmes nationally for stroke patients in circumstances in which this would improve patient outcomes and free up acute hospital beds; if he will roll out early supported discharge programmes nationally for stroke patients in view of the fact that this would improve patient outcomes and free up...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation (3 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 35. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of the rare disease register; the details of the progress made to date on implementing the rare disease plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20213/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Page 23 of the programme for Government commits to a new model of affordable rental to be delivered within the first 100 days of Government. In fact, the detail of the cost rental model was to be rolled out in quarter 3 of 2016. Unfortunately, we have yet to see it. With tens of thousands of individuals and families who are ineligible for social housing increasingly locked out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Collins, Mr. Ó Tuathail and Ms Brannick O'Cillín for both the legislation and the presentations. Before I ask my questions, I wish to put two general comments on the record. The first is that it is significant that the single largest issue on which the expert commission received submissions of interest was, as Deputy Collins has outlined, the issue of the need for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just wanted to follow up on Mr. Ó Tuathail's answer to that because it ties in with Senator Coffey's question. The first sentence of the amendment talks about the public water system. The word "system" here is very important. Let us say there is an asset that is part of the system today but in the future is decommissioned and is no longer part of the system, as outlined by Senator...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I will start by saying that I found the presentation we got from the Department and the Minister's opening statement very disappointing because they do not say an awful lot more than what was said on Second Stage. In fact, the bulk of what the Minister has stated was said during the Second Stage debate in November, almost six months ago. The purpose of this meeting,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We all need a big hug once in a while.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I reassure the Minister that any of us proposing changes to the Constitution is fully aware of how serious a proposition that is. We take the Constitution, and proposals to change it, as seriously as the Government does. The Minister is right to say there have been occasions where bad decisions were made, often when decisions were rushed as a result of political considerations, such as one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is we cannot even scrutinise it at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want the Minister's advice. Our problem today is we are not getting it six months after he promised it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a comment to make and one final question to ask. I might get an answer to it. It is not a matter of weeks but almost six months since the Bill was debated. It is my understanding it has to proceed through Committee and Report Stages and into the Seanad. It will then be brought back to us. If we did not have the current delay, there would still be sufficient time to scrutinise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That was not the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: After an hour.