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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will list the 3,000 social and affordable homes to be delivered through the €450 million capital allocation approved by Cabinet on 18 February 2025, broken down by the number of units in each local authority area and the social housing landlord associated with each scheme that is, named AHB or the relevant local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the proposed allocations schemes for cost rental housing including an update on whether any regulations have been issued by him and any scheme specific cost rental allocations schemes approved; and if so, where and for which category of worker/tenant. [7711/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (25 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a list of all submissions received by his Department during the review of Part B of the Building Control Regulations and to publish the submissions on the Department's website or to provide copies of the submissions to the incoming members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. [7712/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Alcohol Sales (25 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 639. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position of sports facilities (details supplied) under new alcohol licence laws, and if he intends to amend the draft legislation to include these stadiums. [7351/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (25 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 741. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status/leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (25 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 810. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans to recognise medical alert dogs to afford them the same status as other assistance dogs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8081/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (26 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby grid constraints from the excessive data centre demand are negatively impacting the connection of housing to the electricity network. [8350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (26 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to bring forward legislation to ban connections of islanded data centres to the gas grid. [8352/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of schemes and units funded through 5 programmes and funds (details supplied) that are waiting for departmental approval; and when these decisions will be made, in tabular form. [9850/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (6 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged with stakeholders in relation to the situation whereby grid constraints from the excessive data centre demand are negatively impacting the connection of housing to the electricity network. [10348/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Regulations (6 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on EU obligations for establishing separate textile waste collection and establish an extended producer responsibility scheme. [10346/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (6 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on progress in fulfilling the obligations in article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive 2023/1791 regarding a database for data centres. [10347/25]

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — under significant pressure from the Opposition, the Government reopened the Social Housing Tenant in-Situ Scheme in 2022, and, following further pressure from the Opposition, provided much needed flexibility in the operation of the scheme in 2023; — since April 2023, more than 2,500 households have been prevented from...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, last year, more than 16,000 eviction notices were issued by landlords to tenants in the private rental sector and more than half of those eviction notices were on grounds of sale. The sale of property is the single largest driver of homelessness for families, couples, singles and pensioners. As a consequence, in the past year alone, the number of people in emergency...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The concern - and it is a genuine concern - that has motivated us in bringing forward this Private Members' motion is that the capital funding announced by the Minister's Department to date, and the new restrictive eligibility criteria, will result in fewer tenant in situ purchases this year than last year, even if the demand is the same. That is the central concern here. The total capital...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce an amendment to the Planning and Development Act 2024 empowering planning authorities to apply administrative fines to short-term letting platforms such as a company (details supplied) and others where they advertise short-term lets in rent pressure zones that are not in compliance with planning law, as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, the overwhelming majority of short-term lettings within the State are operating illegally and in clear breach of planning law. In 2022, the House dealt with legislation to strengthen the enforcement of the short-term letting regulations, specifically within rent pressure zones. Is this a proposition the Minister and his departmental officials are currently considering...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has been a decade since the issue of unregulated short-term lets in high rental demand areas was raised on the floor of the Dáil. Significant work was done on a cross-party basis in the Oireachtas housing committee in 2018. An all-party report was agreed and we worked with the Minister's predecessor, the former Deputy Eoghan Murphy, on the 2019 regulations. The problem with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, many of us warned of the challenges of enforcement when the former Minister, Eoghan Murphy, was introducing the 2019 regulations. There is a solution to this as regards the platforms, that being, to amend the Planning and Development Act to allow planning authorities to apply administrative spot fines to platforms like Airbnb for every day they advertise properties that are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to comment on the ongoing delay in his Department's approvals for social and affordable housing projects funded via SHIP, CAS, CALF, CREL and AHF; to confirm the total number of projects submitted to his Department under each funding stream since September 2024 to date in 2025; the number that have been approved, and the local...