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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 444. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [25505/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: The Minister should instruct local authorities rather than hope that they will be receptive to his wishes. Office blocks of six or seven stories are being built on Nassau Street. I see no reason why there should not be another five or six stories of apartments on top of those developments. That is what is needed. Urban sprawl has gone too far and for too long. It has crippled the public...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 7. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the procedures and processes his Department has put in place to track the progress being made by each local authority on the social housing projects currently under construction; if he receives detailed monthly progress reports on each of the projects; and the measures his Department has at its disposal if it is of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether national planning standards should be set to increase the height of apartment buildings in view of the high break-even costs of building apartments and absence of supply for new apartment buildings despite the high demand. [25217/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: Despite high rents it still seems uneconomic to build apartments in Dublin and major cities. If we are serious about attracting investment and financial services jobs to Dublin in the wake of Brexit, we have to provide homes but we cannot add to the sprawl in Dublin and other cities. Is the Minister open to amending national planning guidelines to allow high-rise development in order to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: I agree with the Minister but he has the opportunity to make sure it happens sooner rather than later. This is relevant because of the opportunities we might have following Brexit but also, and more important, because of the crisis in housing provision and the lack of adequate units in the city to enable city living. He says a cost-effectiveness review by his Department will report in early...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: As two of the questions in this grouping are in my name, I hope that will be reflected in my time allocation. As I said earlier, I understand the mentality behind the proposal but it was late coming to the pitch. What mechanisms and processes have been put in place to adjudicate the performance and reaction to the publication of the lists in regard to each local authority? I accept each...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to reintroduce affordable housing schemes of the type suspended in 2012 for owner-occupiers and or renters rather than providing public land subsidies to developers to provide cheaper housing to home buyers, as proposed in the landbank initiative. [25112/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which his new landbank plan will ensure there will be a significant dividend for social housing and affordable housing; and his plans to address concerns that there are no mechanisms in place to ensure that, following the disposal of public sites for private developments, funds will be reinvested in social...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: A reply from the Minister to my recent parliamentary question seemed to indicate that there were no specific plans by his Department to ensure he would play his part in providing affordable homes, notwithstanding the fact the Government of which he was a member, on assuming office, reduced the Part V provision from 20 to 10%, retained the social housing aspect but dropped the affordable homes...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister for his response. I accept and acknowledge that there is potential in the future development of the sites the Minister spoke of. I would have hoped for them to come on stream much earlier than this, but I accept the mechanism under which the Minister believes the development can take place and the benefit that can accrue to the State, as the Minister has said. I would...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to support the development of the agriculture and food sector. Every Deputy supports that aspiration, no more than we support the aspiration to look after everyone who gets up early in the morning, let alone those who cannot find a place to put their heads at night. The latest reports citing farming as the occupation with the highest...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: The Government promised 15,000. That is the problem.

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: I acknowledge the provision of family hubs across our cities. They are a welcome development in recent months, although they have come very late in the day. I hope the pace of provision will be quickened such that there will not be a repeat of what occurred on Tuesday night. When a similar situation arose two years ago, in response to being told that the law was not strong enough in...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: We all accept and know there is a housing crisis. Despite the Government's best efforts, announcements and plans this crisis is, unfortunately, getting worse rather than better. Research from agencies such as Focus Ireland has confirmed that an overwhelming number of homeless families had their last stable home in the private rental sector. They had to leave those homes as landlords were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether one of the main barriers holding back the provision of social housing is the inability of local authorities to build construction projects of scale due to an overly rigid application of sustainable communities criteria, in view of the fact that of the 276 social housing projects that have passed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether national planning standards should be set to increase the height of apartment buildings, in view of high break even costs of building apartments and the absence of supply for new apartment buildings despite the high demand. [25039/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which under the new land bank plan it is ensured that there will be a significant dividend for social housing and for affordable housing; and if he will address concerns that there are no mechanisms in place which will ensure that the disposal of public sites for private developments will be reinvested in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to reintroduce affordable housing schemes of the type suspended in 2012 for owner-occupiers and or renters rather than providing public land subsidies to developers in the hope that they will provide cheaper housing to home buyers as appears to be the model proposed in the land bank initiative. [25036/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to establish a rental property price register run by the Residential Tenancies Board, as recommended by a person (details supplied); and his views on whether making information publicly available on rental levels for various property types in different areas would improve market information for renters...