Results 14,261-14,280 of 15,170 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (9 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 781.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Departmental funding for local authority staff, including housing staff, remains with the local authority where there are vacancies and if local authorities have discretion on how this funding should be spent where it is not being spent on staff (i.e., for the duration of the vacancy).[33940/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 785.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing, funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure, with a breakdown for each of these funding streams, in tabular form.[34081/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 787.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests from local authorities for funding for acquisitions and for voids that have been refused or put on hold in 2024, with a breakdown by local authority and amount of funding requested, in tabular form.[34124/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 793.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any imminent or recently issued revised guidelines for local authorities and AHBs with respect to the social and cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme.[34212/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (9 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 796.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing the number of full-time equivalent staff at the National Building Control Office to 20, including three additional executive professional officers and 12 professional officers.[34242/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (9 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1153.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied) given the processing time for this application has now surpassed 29 months.[35183/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1480.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of a reported long-term shortage of childcare places in an area of Dublin mid-west (details supplied); the actions his Department is taking to create increased capacity in the locality; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1813.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 21 March 2024, if a review has been carried out into the impact of the cessation of child developmental checks under the national healthy childhood programme for children in areas of Dublin mid-west (details supplied) due to staff shortages in the public health nursing service; if so, if the report will be made...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the interim fire safety funding for multi-unit developments. [37146/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is almost two years since the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, made a commitment to introduce an interim fire safety remediation scheme for people impacted by Celtic tiger-era defects. That scheme opened almost a year ago. As the Minister knows, it has beset by significant delays, many of which, in my view, are of the Minister’s making. Can the Minister give an update on where...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Like the Minister, I meet many of the affected homeowners and tenants in these properties. They have been enormously frustrated by the significant delays which would have been entirely avoidable had the Minister and his officials taken on board the detailed advice from Dublin Fire Brigade and others last year and early this year, rather than leaving it to the last minute in June, July and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the wider redress scheme, we are very keen to see the general scheme. We will engage on it constructively, as we have done previously. On the basis of the press release the Minister issued, he has made a huge mistake. A grant scheme to owners' management companies to fund very complex remediation works in multi-unit developments is a mistake. If I am reading the press...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it a grant scheme?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: But is it a grant scheme related to the OMCs?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps planned to reduce the number of people in homeless emergency accommodation. [37147/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, the figures published at the end of August for July show yet again an increase in the numbers of adults and children, including single people and pensioners, in emergency accommodation. Month after month, we see these increases. What the Minister is doing is not only not fixing the problem but also making it worse. What new initiatives does he intend to introduce in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yet, month after month, the number of adults and children, including pensioners, families and single people, in emergency accommodation has increased under the Minister's watch. In May 2021, the low point of homelessness as a result of the emergency measures introduced during the Covid pandemic by the Minister's predecessor, we had 5,843 adults and 2,184 children officially recognised as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I always get very concerned when I hear the Minister and others say homelessness is a very complex problem, because sometimes it can be interpreted as code for saying it is the fault of the people experiencing homelessness rather than a failure of the Government to meet their housing needs.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The tenants in situ circular the Department issued is restricting the numbers, capping the ability of local authorities to acquire more properties, particularly in large urban areas, and making it more difficult for approved housing bodies to purchase properties that are vacant to meet the needs of one- and four-bed households, whose members spend longer in emergency accommodation. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is in the circular.