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Priority Questions: Housing Issues (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: On 27 February 2018, there are record numbers of people in homelessness. It is almost two years since the Government took office and Rebuilding Ireland came into being. The public has not seen the return on that investment to date. I hope that changes quickly. An example of how it could be done would be a quicker turnaround between announcements and the putting into place of various...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the working group review of short term lettings regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9485/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected capital funding for social housing per annum up to 2027 as announced in the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9483/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes refurbished through the repair and lease scheme since its inception; his plans to reform the scheme; the new targets for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9482/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the senior counsel review of planning inquires in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9484/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a proposed new school (details supplied). [9858/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: We can all go to Sligo.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: I welcome our guests, particularly Mr. Quinn, and I congratulate him on his appointment. I wish him every success and I worked closely with him when he was with Bord na Móna. I hope we can continue that relationship. A long and arduous process, as the witnesses know all too well, was put in place to deal with the unfortunate period that saw the setting up of Irish Water and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: I dislike such acronyms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: I acknowledge and appreciate that but, as Ms Graham said, I hope that the Minister might reflect on her position that it might be helpful to the entire process and its successful conclusion if there was a role for public representatives in the real negotiations.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 130. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [8875/18]

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: Is it on Netflix?

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: For Fine Gael to say that any objection to the national planning framework or to what is contained in it in some way deflects or stands in the way of the development plan is a lie. That lie has been repeated by An Taoiseach, and by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, on "Morning Ireland" the other day. It was repeated by the Minister himself on the "Today with Sean O'Rourke"...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: -----because the Government could get away with it if that was the case. The Dáil has been disregarded again, and it is not the first time, I am afraid. The only regard the Government is showing for the public in this area is through the prism of the special communications unit. Last Thursday, sectoral interests, including the Construction Industry Federation, CIF, the Irish...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: It will not be statutory then.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: The process to initiate a national planning framework began three years ago, we are told, and culminated last Friday. It was wrong of the Government to combine its publication with that of the national development plan and doubly wrong to term the combination Ireland 2040. Such a decision seeks to create, and to some extent has succeeded in creating, some confusion among the electorate and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 332. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [8249/18]

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: In the brief time available to me, I want to reaffirm what has been said by my colleagues and what will be said by others about the Minister's responsibility to deal with this issue and the lack of accountability to date regarding how he has handled the matter. The gravest issues facing us today as representatives are housing, health, broadband and roads. Roads throughout the country are in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when an appointment will be decided. [6817/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (13 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: 415. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment for orthodontic treatment. [7194/18]