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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We regularly have a problem with numbers.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In response to a freedom of information request, I received the net social housing need waiting list for all local authorities as of 1 September and the figure was 99,555 households. The Department uses a different methodology for the housing needs assessment it is about to publish, as it did last year, so it is important to outline to the House what is the methodology. The Department is...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said on the previous occasion Deputy Smith raised this matter, a very simple solution would be to allow local authorities to disregard family income supplement when conducting the means test for social housing. That is already the case in respect of carer's allowance. In my constituency, a working family were €500 a year over the social housing income threshold and were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of real social houses delivered to date in 2017 by scheme including council new build, council acquisition, council Part V, council returned void, AHB new build, AHB acquisition, AHB part V, and AHB returned void. [52163/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the possible redesignation of approved housing bodies by EUROSTAT and the CSO; the contingency plans in place to deal with this in order to meet his social housing targets; and his further plans to assist approved housing bodies secure land in order to meet their social housing targets as per Rebuilding Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's inquiry into allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal. [52161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, if he will reconcile the data on voids contained therein and in the 2016 NOAC report; and if an assurance will be provided that there is no double counting of regular voids and long term voids in his annual social housing output figures for 2014 to 2017. [52165/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the findings of the 2013 departmental review into shared ownership schemes; the reason the report was never published; the actions he took following the report; and the advice that is being given to councils dealing with distressed shared ownership mortgages. [52164/17]

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: He did but the Minister did not answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is simply not true.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is something a little incongruous about our debating and voting on this legislation in so far as none of us, as elected politicians, can claim complete objectivity when it comes to the redrawing of constituencies. That is not to take away from the legitimacy of the points raised by colleagues. We absolutely have a right to debate the legislation underpinning the establishment of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which Ireland's 15th report on the implementation of the European Social Charter for the period 2013 to 2016 was submitted to the European Committee of Social Rights; and if she will publish that report on her Department's website. [53203/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to conduct a review or plans revisions to the local government boundaries or distribution of seats within existing boundaries in advance of the 2019 local government elections. [52704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 520 of 5 December 2017, the number of housing first tenancies in existence prior to the launch of Rebuilding Ireland in July 2016; and the number of new housing first tenancies commenced since July 2016 to date in 2017. [53001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Repossessions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of shared ownership loans that have resulted in repossession and the owner losing his or her home in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [53201/17]

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: A couple of minutes.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities can include charges for maintenance such as boiler servicing within the overall calculation of differential rent; and if so, the legislation under which such additional charges are permitted. [53398/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Some of what I have to say ties in with the comments of other members. Deputy Cassells is correct that we have one of the most centralised systems of government and weakest forms of local government in Europe. It is a tragedy that in the history of the State we have probably produced more commissions and reports on local government reform than anything else. Political parties are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. That is a period I would support. We need to be realistic in terms of costs. The commission needs to consider what costs would arise from its proposals, which need not necessarily constitute new burdens on the Exchequer. If one is devolving power from existing statutory bodies, one can devolve the powers, staff and budgets with them. During yesterday's debate on the Electoral...