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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposed national quality standards framework for emergency accommodation; the ongoing inspections of private and voluntary sector emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4585/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 1,757 voids returned to stock in 2017 that had a tenant at the beginning of 2017. [4583/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report held by his Department on allegations of planning corruption on County Donegal; when this report will be published; and the actions he plans to take arising from the report. [4587/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for having to step out there but I will check the transcript for what I missed later. I will re-emphasise, and am sure that everybody else said this at the start of their comments, that those of us who are sympathetic to this legislation do not in any way want to compromise fire safety or building standards. These sessions are very useful because they allow us to clarify and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Skehan for attending. I will make a couple of initial comments. I am a strong defender of free speech. People have a right to express their opinions and I would not try to curtail that. Likewise, the rest of us have a right to respond to those publicly. People in public bodies should express their views even when they do not necessarily coincide with the views of politicians...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me respond to that. This is very important and in some senses I am even more concerned now than I was at the start. Again I will be as measured as I can be. Third-party accounts of very complex family situations are not evidence. I am not disputing that the person who sent Mr. Skehan that may believe that. However, that is not evidence of people gaming the system. That is somebody's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of clarification. When somebody is in homeless accommodation, emergency offers of accommodation are not made on the same basis, so that very often somebody will be offered accommodation not in their area of preference but so far away from their area of preference and family support networks that it is not an appropriate offer. That is an important distinction to make....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is one very small point. Mr. Skehan is absolutely correct, the report dates from 2016 and the logic of the report was the dramatic rise in the increase in the number of families presenting as homeless. What he did not mention, but I am sure it was an oversight, was that this was also the period when we had a dramatic increase in the number of landlords increasing rents, but before we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a supplementary question but if you want to go ahead Chairman I will come in after you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, I will just throw them in quickly here. Data accuracy is one of the things we talk about a lot. The recently announced Government housing needs assessment figures of 80,000 plus is for June or July of last year. I have subsequent figures from every local authority under FOI of the same net need figures from September and they are 99,000. I would not get too excited that there has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would also say we have 32,000 households on the housing assistance payment, HAP, which is a short-term response to their particular housing situation. We have 20,000 households on the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. One could argue that we have a gross housing need of approximately 130,000. The reason I say that is because all of us in here represent all of those people in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked when Mr. Skehan asked the Housing Agency to conduct a further study given his view that the 2016 study was out of date. Is he saying he did not ask the Housing Agency to do another study?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would it not have been appropriate to ask the agency to do a study before floating the idea publicly that he was not satisfied with the 2016 report? Would that not have been more sensible given that Mr. Skehan is the chairman of the body?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given Mr. Skehan's concern about the possibility of gaming the system and his view that the 2016 report was out of date and in light of his statement that part of the job of the board is to challenge the Housing Agency, why did he not ask the agency to conduct a follow-up report on this issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a "Yes" or "No" question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a "No" in reply to my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a "No".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are not allowed to advertise commercial products in the building.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (1 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that CIÉ makes funding available to the 10,000 active members of its two pension schemes for independent legal advice; his further plans to initiate an independent investigation into the governance of the two CIÉ pension schemes; and his plans to ensure that CIÉ answers all outstanding questions asked...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Voluntary Sector (1 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or officials in his Department have played a part or have attempted to interfere, limit or prevent voluntary sector organisations funded by his Department from engaging in advocacy work on behalf of their service users; if he or his officials would seek to or have sought to prevent voluntary sector organisations funded...