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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Am I right in saying six-month reviews are done on the progress on this work or did I just invent this from somewhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the six-month update on the priority sites is done, would be possible to send it directly to the committee clerk?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would then alert us and we could set in train the invitation to come back to this discussion. It would be useful for us to do it with this frequency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The legislative programme includes a rates Bill, which is due to be published shortly. Currently, rate revaluations are taking place in south Dublin, Kildare and elsewhere. Some small employers have been hit with rate increases of between 50% and 100%. These are businesses that weathered the storm of recession and are just about to consider hiring new staff or restoring wage cuts that were...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for the regulation of a company (details supplied); if he or his officials have met with the company and if so, when; the topics discussed; and his plans to bring forward regulations clarifying in law the position in relation to short term lets. [24128/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (24 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the annual capital investment spent on wastewater treatment from 2000 to 2021 in tabular form; and the figure for the portion of this investment each year targeted at those agglomerations listed by the European Commission in its urban wastewater directive infringement proceedings from 2013, including the 38...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Governments should be judged by how they treat the most vulnerable in society. After six years in office, Enda Kenny's record speaks for itself. According to the Central Statistics Office, in 2011 there were 641 homeless children but, last month, 2,563 children slept in emergency accommodation funded by the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. That is a 300%...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is strange that the problem has increased by 300% during the Tánaiste's time in office as a consequence of the Government prioritising tackling it. I understand that she must defend the Government's position. However, given her background in social care and her time as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, I can only imagine how this issue makes her feel in private. In some...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Why is the problem getting worse? The Government has failed.

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government has had six years.

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has been more than six years and people are sleeping in a Garda station.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government recognises it is not acceptable for families to live in unsuitable emergency accommodation. If a child presents unaccompanied to a Garda station out of hours, there is a clear statutory responsibility on the Garda to contact the Tusla-funded social worker. When a family with a child presents at the same Garda station, there is no statutory clarity in terms of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is because the Minister's Government gave them no money to spend on doing anything with the land.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures are not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I get five questions, Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of affordable housing units that will be built on a site (details supplied) in view of the fact that a number of housing development sites, including a site and other sites around the State, received a substantial amount of funding from the local infrastructure housing activation fund, which contained a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like first to correct the Minister on a point he made earlier. Sinn Féin councillors did support the final Poolbeg proposal partly because they managed, along with councillors from other parties, to get an additional 350 social houses to the 620 originally proposed. A good job was done by the councillors in Dublin City Council. On Question No. 2, when the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To summarise, the Minister's answer to my question is that he does not know, despite the fact that he has been working on the scheme for a year. A circular issued by the Department in August stated that a minimum of 40% of the homes to be delivered would be available at 10% less than the average market cost, though in Dún Laoghaire that would be no guarantee of affordability. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have read the circulars.