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Other Questions: Regeneration Projects Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they can afford the properties.

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to roll out the national quality standards framework office inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; if all emergency accommodation, including commercial hotels and bed and breakfast establishments, will be covered by this; and if the office inspectorate will be fully independent of his...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the previous Question Time taken by the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, I asked him to consider the creation of an independent inspection regime for emergency accommodation. He helpfully pointed me in the direction of the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, which is doing some work on a quality standards framework. I met the executive for a very detailed meeting and I was quite impressed...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To comment on today's homelessness figures, it is Orwellian in the extreme to suggest that there has been progress. The Minister is right the number of families in emergency accommodation in Dublin has fallen by a total of eight but the number of children in emergency accommodation in Dublin has increased by 37. That is not progress. The total number of adults, children and families across...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Those trends are going up. There are more adults and children now homeless.

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not the question.

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister's efforts are not working.

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister has it.

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody doubts the work of the voluntary sector or the staff in councils or the Minister's own Department. I am simply saying that it is exactly the trends that matter. The overall trend is that the numbers of adults, children and families who are experiencing homelessness are up. The Minister is trying to put a positive spin on it to say that in Dublin for two months in a row the number of...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans in conjunction with local authorities and other bodies to deliver the agreed number of social and affordable homes in strategic development zones, SDZs, such as at Poolbeg and Clonburris and land initiatives such as O'Devaney Gardens and the Grange. [45349/17]

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This question is very straightforward. There has been very good co-operation between the Department officials, Dublin City Council, local councillors and the local community with regard to the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ. This resulted in an increase in the total amount of social and affordable housing to be made available. I welcome that and I also welcome the work of the...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The key issue here is the 550 affordable homes to be made available on the Poolbeg site because this is not public land. It is privately owned land that is currently in the hands of the receiver. The question arises as to how we ensure genuinely affordable homes. I remind the House of the price ranges I spoke of earlier of houses between €170,000 and €280,000. This would...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Only good announcements.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the findings of the independent review of funding for Traveller specific accommodation and the implementation of traveller accommodation programmes; and his plans to address the problems in the delivery of traveller specific accommodation identified in the report. [45347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that AHBs have secured sites and funding to enable them to meet their revised new build targets for 2018 to 2021. [45345/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a reader in school: and if this decision will be reconsidered [45627/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies for the disruption caused by the adjournment earlier. I wish to ask a range of different questions. We have discussed with the witnesses and others before today the whole issue of consumer protection element of building regulations and standards, and whether it is latent defects insurance or some other system can provide greater protection. When we put that idea to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Did CIRI say why it could not give Ms Hegarty that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I may clarify the point, Ms Ní Fhloinn is arguing that these are not two separate issues and they need to be integrated in a single process as having a separate register and consumer protection function would not work properly. Is my interpretation of her argument correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the witnesses to circulate to the committee the documents to which they referred, specifically the reports from the Law Reform Commission and World Bank.