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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Brexit Issues (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2015. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has studied the implications of Brexit regarding inward migration from the UK and EU and the additional demand this will impose on the private rented residential sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38080/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2016. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his officials completed the trial densification project at a location (details supplied) in the Dublin City Council area; the conclusions drawn from the densification project and its viability for being rolled out nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38081/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2019. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress his Department has made along with the National Development Finance Agency on allowing larger institutional private investors to become involved in financing social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38084/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2020. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons and families assisted under the emergency accommodation scheme in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38085/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2021. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent finding by an organisation (details supplied) that eight out of ten landlords wrongly issued rent increases to tenants in rent pressure zones in cases on which it adjudicated; the steps he will take to ensure more compliance by landlords with the new legislation. [38091/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2022. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing and-or affordable housing units built or purchased by each of the approved housing bodies (details supplied) in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38135/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2054. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units that have been constructed in 2017 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38618/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2055. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units that have been acquired or constructed in 2017 to date; the location of such affordable house building by county; the definition of affordable housing by couples and individuals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38619/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2056. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken and dates when each step was completed or cleared by and between the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Dublin City Council, from initial presentation by DCC until the current date with regard to housing projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2057. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the slow timeframe needed to complete the current four social housing approval stages between local authorities and the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government; the way in which this process could be reduced to speed up the time taken from when a site and project have been identified by...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Brexit Staff (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2112. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there is a senior official with designated responsibility for Brexit matters in his Department; if so, the grade of the designated official; the funding allocated to the Brexit unit; the cost to date; the anticipated cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37989/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Brexit Staff (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2113. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff deployed full time in his Department in respect of Brexit; if there is a designated section or unit to deal with Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38005/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Projects (11 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 2114. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the level of construction inflation that has been experienced by his Department in the 18 months to September 2017 in respect of construction projects; the way in which he monitors construction inflation and the mechanisms his Department employs to establish this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38021/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: On the same issue, when I was Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, I commissioned a report on the issue of people in low-paid employment who are being disguised as self-employed. This is not out of any choice of theirs; it is because it is their only way of getting employment. Many people are being exploited across a range of sectors, from the construction sector to the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: Second, we also set up the commission to review low pay annually.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: That report should have been published last week.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: This matter now falls within the Tánaiste's remit. When will we move to a living wage-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: -----which was agreed by the previous Government and which seems to have gone on the back burner? When will the Government publish the report?

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: When will the Minister publish the report?

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: When the Minister is ready. Does that mean never?