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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing (Refurbishment) Bill 2017: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Cowen for his presentation. Sinn Féin supports the legislation, as we outlined on Second Stage. We have had several discussions at this committee about this issue, particularly when we were examining the vacant homes strategy. As Deputy Cowen pointed out, a range of organisations including industry experts, homelessness organisations and others have strongly advocated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing (Refurbishment) Bill 2017: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two sets of questions. The first relates to some of the concerns Mr. Sheridan expressed in the written presentation regarding building standards and safety issues. I have heard and read the comments, but I am interested to know in more practical day-to-day detail how Mr. Sheridan believes the provisions of the Bill would negatively impact on safety if they were implemented. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing (Refurbishment) Bill 2017: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a brief follow-up question. If the planning work is done and the regulations and guidelines for refurbishments changed, one of the attractive things about Deputy Cowen's Bill from our point of view is the idea of the one-stop shop, whereby a person does not have to go to a number of different places to try to get a number of different things to get his or her project across the line,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the ongoing review of funding supports for group water schemes; the length of time the review will take; the lead official in his Department working on the review; the organisations and persons that have been consulted to date; the opportunities available to individual group water schemes or interested third...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding his Department provides to a group (details supplied) on an annual basis since the group was established. [49953/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital investment by his Department in individual group water schemes in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49954/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the practice of some local authorities of providing families that are homeless but have not met the requirements of housing circular 41/2012 with emergency accommodation on a night-by-night basis only; if his attention has been further drawn to a legal reason a local authority cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless HAP tenancies created in the first six months of 2017; the number of these used to prevent homelessness; and the number used to support individuals and families to exit section 10 funded homeless accommodation. [50127/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adult persons who have exited section 10-funded homeless accommodation in the first six months of 2017; and the housing tenures to which they have exited. [50128/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies active at the end of each year from 2005 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the annual cost of RAS tenancies for each year. [50157/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of part V units delivered in 2016; and the number delivered to date in 2017. [50159/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of SHCEP-funded leases in categories (details supplied) for each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the annual cost for these leases each year; the target number of leases under these categories in each of the years 2018 to 2021; and the estimated cost of these leases in each of these years. [50288/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date on action 5.3 of Rebuilding Ireland on work with local authorities to speed up the refurbishment and where possible the re-letting of vacant social housing units; the number of vacant units in the south of Dublin city centre; the average length of time units are vacant in this area, in tabular form;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Advisers Data (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers or Ministers of State in his Department; and the annual gross salary of each adviser. [50441/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 726. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to include a summary at the start of all future social housing construction status reports from quarter 3, Q3, 2017 providing the number of units that have secured planning permission, that have commenced, that have completed and that have been tenanted since the previous quarters reports. [50495/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 727. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or local authorities have discretion to offer private developers more than a 10% deposit in advance of the purchase of turnkey developments for social housing; if deposits of above 10% have ever been sanctioned by his Department to facilitate the progress of such turnkey developments; and if he has given...

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: A number of weekends ago, the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, speaking on "The Week in Politics" said that the homelessness crisis would get worse before it got better. I do not think even he realised how prophetic his words would be. As Deputy Cowen said, we have had two more deaths of people forced to sleep rough as a result of homelessness. That is seven deaths in a matter of weeks. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State's disappointing reply was exactly the same as the reply we would have got if the tragic events of recent days had not happened. It was promised under Rebuilding Ireland that there would be 300 new Housing First tenancies within a year, but just 180 of them have been delivered. The target of 300 was not close to enough, given that so many people are spending long...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Accommodation Funding (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the associated costs provided by his Department towards the funding one Housing First tenancy. [51772/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Funding (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 28 November 2017, the details of activities covered by the funding from his Department to an organisation (details supplied). [51762/17]