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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister should read his own departmental circulars. In the August circular, it stated that affordable homes would be delivered and that a minimum of 40% would be available at prices 10% below the average cost in the market. That suggests it was a target but the October circular states that it may not always be possible to deliver 40% of new homes under the LIHAF bids at prices 10%...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: An answer would be nice. It would make a change.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister pull funding if he does not like it?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: They are the Minister's circulars.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be addressing that issue.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department and the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, have a difficulty with numbers. The Minister does not now how many people will sleep in emergency accommodation tonight nor how many new builds are under construction. There are not 10,000 social housing units in the pipeline. I have examined the figures very carefully. In my...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is for small projects and tiny buildings. That is just disingenuous.

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to outline the position regarding the way in which he plans to uphold his commitment to end the use of hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation as emergency accommodation for persons by July 2017; and a timeframe for same. [24806/17]

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The first action of Pillar 1 on homelessness in rebuilding Ireland commits to ensuring that by mid-2017 hotels will be used only in limited circumstances for emergency accommodation for families. Pillar 1 commits to meeting housing needs through the housing assistance payment, housing allocations, a rapid build programme and acquisitions. Nowhere in the document does it state those...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State left out three sentences from the commitment in the answer. The document does not simply state that the Government will end the use of hotels by mid-2017. It lists the four types of housing the Government will provide to meet that objective. Nowhere among those four types of housing is there mention of moving people into other emergency accommodation. When I...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Any improvement in emergency accommodation for families will be welcomed. Again, I go back to the commitment in Rebuilding Ireland that by the middle of this year families that are in hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation will be moved into HAP housing, rapid-build and procured units. We will want to know, sooner rather than later, how many of those 800 or 900 families have gone into...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 14. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the EU Commission's legal proceedings against the Government for the breach of the urban waste water treatment directive. [24807/17]

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In February, the European Commission initiated court proceedings against the Irish Government for breaches of the urban waste water treatment directive. Infringement proceedings have been ongoing since 2012. I am looking for an update from the Minister of State on the progress on the 38 agglomerations or urban areas that are currently in breach of EU law and what the Government will do to...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Interestingly, the primary reason the European Commission initiated the infringement proceedings was because when Fine Gael took office in 2011, it slashed the capital budget for wastewater treatment plans. Prior to that, particularly when John Gormley was Minister, the investment was between €200 million and €300 million on an annual basis. When Fine Gael took office with...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If John Gormley was able to sustain the level of funding in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, when the recession was at its deepest, there is simply no reason why Fine Gael, if it had chosen to continue that level of funding, could not have done so. My question has still not been answered. I want to know, year on year, from now to 2021, what the investment is. I knew the figure was €1.1...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is a smart man. I thought he might know off the top of his head.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding his commitment to develop and roll out an affordable rental model; the model of affordable rental being examined by his Department; and the timeframe for the publication of this scheme. [24808/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regrading the pilot mortgage to rent scheme involving private equity firms including the lease arrangements in place; the level of security of tenure provided for home owners and tenants; and if it is designed to meet the needs of distressed mortgage holders who do not qualify for social housing. [24805/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if large scale housing funding projects proposed to his Department by local authorities, approved housing bodies or the Housing Agency, including acquisitions or new builds which were deferred in 2016 have been deferred in 2017; if so, the projects concerned; the amounts requested and deferred; and the reasons for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be approved for the new purpose school at a school (details supplied); when the project will move to stage one of the process; and when the new school will be complete. [25116/17]