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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Section 39 Organisations: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: What was the reaction, for example, when the powers that be saw the extent of the request to deal with this situation? Were they aghast? Did they express shock and horror or did they say that the amount was too high and that they would not go there? What happened?

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

Bernard Durkan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider promoting schemes of private serviced sites in all areas nationally on which first-time persons seeking homes for the first time could build their own homes to specific specifications as was the case in the past.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4601/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority houses commenced and or built by each local authority in 2017; the way in which the number related to the number of eligible persons on a waiting list of the local authorities in question; the extent to which the number will be increased in 2018; the extent to which it is expected to reduce the...

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

Bernard Durkan: 335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority housing applicants on local authority lists who have been homed specifically by the local authorities in the past 12 months; the reduction of the numbers on the lists as a consequence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4902/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he expects local authority housing waiting lists to be reduced in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4963/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and location of serviced or serviceable sites available to Kildare County Council for the building of local authority housing in 2018; when such houses units might be ready for occupation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4903/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which specific sites have been identified in each local authority area to facilitate an emergency house building programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4967/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he could expect to meet the ever-pressing housing needs through the development and sale of serviced private sites to suitable persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4904/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for an emergency housing programme with a view to easing the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4905/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of local authority houses to be started and or built in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4960/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes planned by each local authority in respect of which the appropriate planning process has been concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4961/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of proposed local authority homes in respect of which contracts have been entered into between the local authorities and building and engineering firms excluding AHBs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4962/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which each local authority has been directly involved in driving its own house building programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4966/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families, adults and children in emergency accommodation; the extent to which housing their needs can be met in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4906/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number families, adults and children in emergency housing in County Kildare; the extent to which their housing needs can be met in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4907/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expand on his plans for regional and balanced development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4964/18]

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

Bernard Durkan: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he expects to positively influence measures to encourage population movement throughout the country thereby reducing congestion in the bigger population counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4965/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: It is important to reassure the Irish subcontractors that their liabilities are covered or they will not be ultimately liable for something that went wrong in another jurisdiction. If possible, will the Minister make contact with the subcontractors with a view to alleviating their worries. If the matter drags on indefinitely, the concern is that they will be placed under unnecessary...

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: My main concern in this whole situation is the extent to which it might affect the customer, that is, the Department of Education and Skills as well as the parents and children who are awaiting completed school projects. I am not so concerned about the public private partnership model. If it has worked before and it can work again. If it provides schools methodically, quickly, effectively...

Other Questions: Mortgage Debt (30 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the increasing aggressive policies being pursued by third parties that have purchased distressed debt from the main banks (details supplied); if he has consulted the Governor of the Central Bank on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4302/18]