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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will be aware, the December homeless figures showed a record 13,318 people, including 3,962 children, in emergency accommodation funded by his Department. That is a 20% increase in family homelessness on the previous year but there was a month-on-month increase in single-person homelessness and pensioner homelessness. While I welcome the fact there was a slight decrease in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the December figures were published, Simon Communities stated that homelessness is poised to increase in the coming months. They would know because they are on the front line. The problem is there is a growing gap between the answers that the Minister gives to these questions on the floor of the Dáil and the reality for many thousands of adults and children who are experiencing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The homeless figures: make grim reading with no progress made in terms of stemming the flow of families presenting as homeless or moving people out of emergency accommodation into long term housing. Consistent increases in the overall homelessness numbers over the past five years despite regular announcements of plans and strategies have destroyed confidence in the ability of the political...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the constitutional referenda on the right to housing and public ownership of water. [6821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the low number of applications to the revised defective concrete block remediation scheme and the slow rate of processing existing applications that have transferred to the new scheme. [6824/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group report on Traveller accommodation. [6823/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortality Rates (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s response to the recent Health Research Board’s report into mortality among single homeless people. [6822/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; the number of appeals awaiting assessment; if an indication of a timeframe to clear the backlog of appeals is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the provision of a fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme to replace the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7261/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 22: In page 34, line 16, to delete “ “Planning Commissioners” ” and substitute “ “Coimisinéirí Pleanála” ”. I with withdraw it but reserve the right to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 23: In page 34, line 17, to delete “ “Planning Regulator” ” and substitute “ “Rialálaí Pleanála” ”. As with No. 22, I reserve the right to reintroduce amendment No. 23.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We spent quite a bit of time yesterday and the day before trying to work out what is the best way to proceed with these cumbersome groups. What probably worked best for us was our approach to our discussion of the amendments tabled by the Chair, Deputy Matthews. The Ministers of State outlined in clusters their specific responses to specific groups of amendments. We were then able to have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two points to make. First, from listening to what the Minister's ministerial colleagues and officials have been saying, there is going to be quite a lot of subsequent amending legislation to this Bill, both in the near future and in the long term. This will not be the only area where that might happen. The second point is that I do not understand the logic of the Minister's...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a very helpful way to do it. One of the struggles we have had in the past two days is that we were working from the official groupings when the Minister had these logical groupings. Having sight of this is helpful. If, as the Minister has done, he outlines his groupings and his rationale, we can then respond to that and deal with those in the best way we can. Notwithstanding...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: These amendments have not come out of nowhere. There has been a significant effort by organisations, many of which the Minister knows, including Conradh na Gaeilge, to ensure a Bill that was in real terms blind to the interaction of the planning system and Irish-language speakers and communities would be addressed. Much of our discussion concerns issues those organisations have rightly...