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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (15 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the provision of a dedicated women’s refuge for victims of domestic violence in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7578/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (15 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a review of the payment levels to solicitors and barristers for the provision of services under civil legal aid for domestic violence and family law matters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7575/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional Garda patrols on public transport in the greater Dublin area as part of efforts to make public transport safer for users; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7576/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda strength by rank across each Dublin metropolitan region district during the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7577/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: The Government's cost-of-living package is very welcome, particularly the €200 household electricity credit along with the €125 lump sum to those in receipt of fuel allowance, as well as the 20% reduction in transport fares for the 19 to 23-year-olds, along with the reduction in the drug payment scheme threshold to €80. The €200 household electricity credit...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. I am substituting for a committee member. I have a number of questions on Vote 34 specifically. Some are for the Minister and others for the Minister of State. I note a further €275.8 million in capital has been carried over from 2021. I am assuming that is related to an underspend caused by the pandemic. It is also noted that a little...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome Mr. Doyle and his colleagues. It is good to have them here again. I thank them for the briefing material they have supplied. It has proven beneficial. I will focus on the Comptroller and Auditor General's opening statement initially. The Comptroller and Auditor referred to HAP. Many questions have already been asked this morning about that scheme. The 20% discretion of local...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I am surprised. I thought it would be higher. I thank Mr. Doyle. My experience chimes with what Deputy Hourigan said in respect of disabilities. I had a case recently involving somebody with a physical disability where the requirement for their accommodation differed from that of an able-bodied person. Therefore, the discretion was not sufficient to secure a property they required....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Does Mr. Doyle have a figure on the number of tenancies in the State relating to RAS? If he does not have it to hand, he might send a note to the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: In the note he sends on, will Mr. Doyle break it down for the four local authorities in Dublin? I suspect RAS is more prevalent in urban than rural areas, but I await the figures. I turn to the major capital projects mentioned in note 2. It is 2.9.D, pages 18 to 20. There is a reference to 37 housing construction projects funded directly by the Department in 2020, of which projects 28...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Yes, please do. That would be helpful.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Yes please, that would be great. I turn to retrofitting. Since the announcement of the new retrofitting scheme we have all been inundated with queries. I am conscious that some years ago local authorities started retrofitting schemes themselves. There is increased funding for that. My local authority of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown has made great progress on that. Some schemes are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Looking at the voids that were done and the extra funding that was given over the last two years, I presume that shallow retrofits are done at that point as well so therefore the numbers are increasing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Finally, an issue we have dealt with for some time is the domestic violence refuges. I appreciate the comprehensive update on that. I note Tusla being the lead agency under the capital assistance scheme, CAS. I think the review and the interdepartmental working group that was established found there were nine local authority areas without any domestic violence refuge. Acknowledging that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: If we need to send the Department a note on that to give a list of priorities, we can do that. We are all too familiar, unfortunately, with the need and the gaps in the service.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: One of the items I did not touch on earlier was cost rental. The Department is estimating 2,000 new cost rental homes per year until 2030. I noted there were very quick turnarounds on the calls to the AHBs. There was one call on 14 December with a closing date of 5 January but the decision was made very shortly after that on 8 February. That is good because it means that there are quick...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: As an AHB identifies a site or a need for cost rental, it can-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: That is good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: That is very good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (22 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the plans of the Central Statistics Office for Census 2022. [10085/22]