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

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister to be clear to renters, not to me.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It has never been more difficult to be a renter. Rents are through the roof, and last year almost 20,000 eviction notices were issued to tenants. The single biggest cause of homelessness, as I am sure the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform knows, is evictions from the private rental sector. According to the Residential Tenancies Board, the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a progress update on the development of the social climate plan. [4562/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the rental accommodation scheme will be published. [4558/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the recent Housing Commission report and to outline if a working group will be established to facilitate the implementation of the report. [4559/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Estimates Publication (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for the Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services table for the capital assistance scheme and the capital advance leasing facility for 2025. [4560/25]

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I join with other colleagues in thanking Tony and wishing him the very best in the future. I cannot think of any better job to prepare you for being a grandparent than being an usher in Leinster House and herding the bag of cats that is often the TDs in this place. We wish him all the very best. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear. Well said.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Taoiseach knows, the tenant in situ scheme is a vital homelessness prevention tool. It allows local authorities and approved housing bodies to purchase private rental properties where an eviction notice is in place and to turn the tenants into social or affordable renters. Correspondence I received from the Department in January confirmed that no new applications are allowed to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Honest?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: We did not lie to people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: We were honest with the electorate. We told the truth, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Schools Building Projects (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 23 October 2024, to provide an update on the large-scale project for a school (details supplied) under the school building programme; if a letter of acceptance has been issued; if a commencement date is available given the considerable delays already experienced by the school; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities currently using choice-based letting to make social housing allocations. [2239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes purchased from financing institutions by the Housing Agency with their rolling fund in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; the number of these properties that were then sold onto AHBs and local authorities; and the current status of the fund. [2240/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Policy (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 710 of 22 January 2025, to confirm that no circular has been issued to local authorities with respect to housing assistance payment rates for separated parents with part access to their children, whereby the HAP rate is changed when the child turns 18. [2671/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 975. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the options for the parent of a child who has been unable to secure an ECCE placement (details supplied). [2836/25]