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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister saying that if the proposals are brought forward, there will be a specific saving between 2019 and 2021? That is not the €1 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the additional bit that Irish Water and the Department is hoping to make if the SLAs are renegotiated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: So that would be €70 million for 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Under programme C, one of the big issues, and it relates to the conversation we have just had on programme A, is funding for staff in housing departments, in terms of general housing staff and private sector inspections. Please identify the increase, if any, for next year and whether additional money was used this year to increase the number of staff in the Department and, specifically, for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I know it is too late to change this but some of us have a concern that the transfer of the final bits of community out of his Department, particularly those that relate to community development functions within urban local authority areas, could have a detrimental impact on the delivery of those services. I am aware that ultimately, that is not a decision for the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his comment on the transfer of the community function. Although we will not have responsibility for the new Department there may be a role for this committee to invite in the Minister, Deputy Ring, maybe once a year or so, to discuss the management of those elements. The only reason I am saying this is since the restructuring of the old community development...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the information of committee members, I sent a request to the Chairman this morning, requesting that we bring in Irish Water, the unions and other interested parties, including the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in January or February to discuss the single utility proposals because I think it would be useful for us to do it at that stage and it would allow members an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be provided with a place in a special class for children with a diagnosed disability in view of the recommendation by the HSE on 23 October 2017. [48529/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (21 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons remaining in institutional settings, that is, hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, care homes, nursing homes and so on, longer than their discharge date; if there is a study of instances in which persons are remaining in institutional settings for significant periods of time after their discharge date passes; and if these instances are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (21 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down by all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in 2016 and to date in 2017; and his plans for improving the drawdown of local authorities in 2018 as a result of the funding increase announced in budget 2018. [49197/17]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to share time with my two colleagues, Deputy Dessie Ellis and Deputy David Cullinane.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the Bill. It is very simple and it is very reasonable because it is not looking to outlaw these devices; it is just placing a requirement on businesses or public bodies who would seek to put them on their premises to justify that through planning permission and to allow the rest of us to engage in that process. The Bill comes down to something very simple. If one thinks it is...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was referring to both Galway City Council and Galway County Council.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Moreover, I maintain there is nothing in this legislation that would have any negative impact on Traveller accommodation. It is disingenuous of the Deputy to suggest otherwise. Contrary to the claims of some people, no one chooses to sleep rough. I am pleased no one has made that claim in the Chamber today. However, sometimes in the public debate about homelessness we hear that people...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with persons (details supplied) following the recent debate on the Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2016 in Seanad Éireann. [49509/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who have been granted their stamp four visa or leave to remain but who remain in direct provision or other non-permanent accommodation funded by his Department on the first day of each month in 2017. [49530/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1527 of 26 July 2017, the calculated value of the non-cash benefits which those in direct provision with status receive. [49468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1527 of 26 July 2017, if she is satisfied that a payment of €26.10 is sufficient for a person in direct provision to have the means to seek employment. [49469/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide direction to ensure that emergency needs payments are readily considered to support those in direct provision centres to move on in view of the fact that homeless HAP is not available in most counties and therefore there is a no possibility for those leaving direct provision to access or save the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (23 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, the criteria used to classify voids. [49710/17]