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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: At least we told the truth.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: We persuaded 400,000 people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not on housing it is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will happily do so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Whenever you want, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will do so whenever the Taoiseach wants and in whatever forum.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider establishing a rebalancing subvention, modelled on the large energy user rebalancing subvention introduced in 2009, with the purpose of funding repair and upgrade of the grid in the wake of storm Éowyn, by collecting a greater portion of network charges from large energy users and less from...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he is considering reviewing raising the local authority borrowing cap to facilitate the delivery of more cost rental in cities, including Dublin. [5994/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a situation arising in an area (details supplied); the actions her Department is taking to ensure placements are available to the children affected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6192/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 449. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will bring to Cabinet the tenant-in-situ targets for 2025. [5996/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list all approved housing body social and cost rental development proposals that are currently with his Department waiting initial approval, with a breakdown by local authority, number of units and length of time a decision has been pending. [5993/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff sanction requests for housing staff currently awaiting decision with his Department, with a breakdown by local authority. [5995/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Department’s position regarding children with specific medical needs who may require emergency intervention from school staff while attending school; if schools can refuse to assist students in the required way in the case of a life threatening emergency (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5391/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (13 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of applications for family re-unification that were made under section 56 of the International Protection Act 2015 in 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of successful and unsuccessful applications, respectively. [5432/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (13 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in accommodation provided by the International Protection and Accommodation Service who have refugee status, subsidiary protection or permission to remain; and to provide a breakdown of their location, by county. [5431/25]

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this comprehensive motion and giving us an opportunity to discuss what is undoubtedly the most important issue facing our constituents today. We are fully supporting the motion. We have some differences of opinion on policy, particularly with respect to the future focus of the Land Development Agency, but we fully support and endorse the spirit of this...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (12 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the State has entered into arbitration with a company (details supplied) or any other companies under the dispute resolution mechanism within the Energy Charter Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5082/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is living in cloud-cuckoo-land. For the past number of weeks, there has been intensive lobbying on behalf of Irish Institutional Property, Property Industry Ireland and the Irish Property Owners Association all claiming, wrongly, in my view, that RPZs - as inadequate a protection as they are, they still provide form of protection - are the reason Government did not meet its...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government could scrap RPZs tomorrow and allow landlords to reset rents between tenancies and market rent, but not a single new home would be built. How do we know? We know because that was the case a number of years ago. Institutional investors were investing in the market when RPZs were first introduced. It is ECB interest rate rises that have caused the problem. Given that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister please confirm that the Government will not do anything that will increase the pressure on hard-pressed renters?