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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]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Estimates Publication (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a revised estimate for Vote 34 Sub Head A Housing will be brought to the Oireachtas; to outline the programme level changes within this subhead to those outlined in the revised estimates for Public service 2025 published by the Department of Finance in December 2024. [16907/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the relationship between and the difference between the housing capital allocations of €3.6 billon and €3.8 billion for 2025 referenced by him in the media (details supplied) and the capital allocation for housing of €3.094 billion for 2025 as set out on page 159 of the Revised Estimates for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarifications to the statement issued by his Department to the media on Sunday 30 March 2025 (details supplied). [17239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications by approved housing bodies and local authorities for approval for social and affordable housing schemes under the SHIP, CAS, CALF, CREL and AHF funding streams, broken down by month and funding stream for each month from August 2024 to March 2025; the corresponding number of applications approved...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of staff employed directly by his Department; and the total cost of this staffing for each year from 2020 to date. [16910/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding allocated under each of the programmes funded by his Department for addressing vacancy and dereliction in 2024; the total amount spent under each of these programmes in 2024; and the total number of vacant or derelict units brought back into use through each of these programmes in 2024, in tabular form....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of advisors he has appointed, their names, responsibilities and a brief biography of their professional and employment experience. [17238/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the review of IS 465; and when he expects to bring forward legislation to amend the defective concrete block grant scheme. [17431/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital allocations for social housing acquisitions for 2025 for each local authority, in tabular form. [17528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 845. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1383 of 19 March 2025, if she is aware that the childcare facility (details supplied) has had to significantly increase fees for parents going forward; if she is conscious of the impact this will have on parents; if the increase is correct under NCS rules; if her Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 846. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action being taken by her Department in relation to core funding given the feedback of many providers and the closure of a high number of childcare facilities due to funding issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17551/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Online Safety (3 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 233. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether provisions within the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 relating to the advertisement or display of harmful online content apply to the advertisement of weapons of war or munitions, including through the solicitation of donations to purchase such items; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16441/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the relationship between the €111 million capital funding for social and affordable housing announced on 31 March and the €450 million capital funding approved for social and affordable housing by Cabinet on 18 February 2025; for a breakdown of the €111 million, by funding stream, including...