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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Schemes (1 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality regarding residents of IPAS accommodation employed in roles with companies who have some work outside of the area in which the accommodation is based, if there is a mechanism for such residents to access alternative accommodation while working in an alternative area in order to avoid losing their employment; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 373. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the rules for the dispensing of prescriptions to medical card holders, including the number of months that can be dispensed at a time; and to confirm the way in which pharmacies are paid to dispense prescriptions under the medical card scheme. [21978/25]

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be sharing time with my colleague, Deputy McGuinness. Statutory planning frameworks are enormously important. They not only set out a clear and legally defined basis for the entire hierarchy of plans, including the regional plans, the city and county development plans and local area plans, but they also provide a long-term strategic framework for investment and delivery of...

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Water is a fundamental human right. It is vital for our families, our communities and public health but also for the well-being of society, our economy and, indeed, our environment. It has been our long-held view that the best way to deliver water and wastewater services is through a public service model where water and wastewater is provided on the basis of need and not ability to pay. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (9 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an individual (details supplied) will be provided with a school placement relevant to their specified educational needs, given the impact attending mainstream school is having on their mental health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successful STAR applications; the recipient of each of these awards, the name of the scheme to which each award has been awarded; the number of cost rental units in each of these schemes; and the amount awarded to each scheme, in tabular form. [17965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the target for delivery of cost rental homes by the LDA under Project Tosaigh by 2026 and 2028; the total number of cost rental homes delivered to date under this scheme; the total number in the pipeline; the estimated delivery date for the schemes in the pipeline; if he is concerned that the 2026 target may not be met; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures An Garda Síochána are taking to curb aggravated burglary and vehicle theft in residential premises in Dublin mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17712/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (9 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the support services, if any, available to victims of aggravated burglary and car theft in residential premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17713/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported burglaries in Lucan, Clondalkin, Palmerstown, Rathcoole, Newcastle, Saggart and Brittas; and the number of burglaries that were investigated and solved in these areas in the past five years, in tabular form. [17714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Detention Centres (9 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 225. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is taking measures to ensure sufficient space in a detention centre (details supplied) for those who are detained as a last resort due to serious criminal activity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17715/25]

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a contradiction at the heart of the Minister's response to the debate. On the one hand, he said that he has no intention of introducing a charge for so-called excessive use but when we gave him the opportunity to demonstrate that by deed and by removing the relevant provisions of the legislation, he refused to do so. Here is the genuine problem. Many people watching this debate...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Bill we put before the Dáil tonight would scrap water charges for good and would prevent this Government and, indeed, any future government from charging workers and families for household water. Recent reports in the newspapers that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were conniving in the background to reimpose water charges by the...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have five minutes, if that is okay.

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Ceann Comhairle is okay. I was a member of that committee and I sat through the sessions. It was clear that rather than deal with the very substantive issues many of us put on the table, like water conservation, education and changes to planning and building control, the Government simply wanted a mechanism to reintroduce domestic metered water charges. It came up with a proposition...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consumer Protection (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 342. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he has any plans to reform the regulation of lifetime loan products issued by companies such as (details supplied) to strengthen consumer protection for borrowers and, as part of any such reform, to examine whether these consumer protections could be applied retrospectively to limit the amount of compound interest applied. [16556/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered opening a special school specifically for the areas of Rathcoole, Newcastle, Saggart and Brittas in order to cater for demand in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16628/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many new autism classes are intended to be opened in primary schools for the coming school year in Rathcoole, County Dublin; how many new places will be available; in what schools; what work is ongoing to ensure suitable school places for all children in the area who require them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of children in Dublin mid-west who require placements in a special school or autism class, but who are currently attending mainstream classes due to a lack of suitable school places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16630/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any funding is available to primary schools to assist in acquiring a vehicle for use by patrons of an ASD class for trips and so on, where current funding does not cover such costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16631/25]