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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 464, 465, 467, 468 and 469 of 14 November 2023, the expected total maximum occupancy of the 37 properties referenced once they are fully operational; and by what date they are expected to become operational. [52060/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 464, 465, 467, 468 and 469 of 14 November 2023, what proportion of children in the international protection system will be entitled to the new payment provided for by Budget 2024; and the eligibility criteria for same. [52061/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 500. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 464, 465, 467, 468 and 469 of 14 November 2023, if all of the programme output targets provided in the table were met; if not, by how much they were missed; in the case of 2023, if they are on course to be met; and if not, by how much they are off target. [52062/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 466 of 14 November 2023, the equivalent average cost per night in privately owned accommodation. [52372/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but the Department was working with the legislation. The legislation we got contains a set of provisions that have merit. However, the Commission is arguing that they are too strong. I know Mr. Ryan cannot confirm this but I will say it anyway. Clearly, the Attorney General's advice when we got the amendments was that they were fine, but then the Commission interjected and said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To follow on Senator Fitzpatrick’s point about polling stations, I think I have 17. On a general election day, I get through every one of those at least three times. With seven people, I am not saying you will get the whole country but you will get a good random selection.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If it is representatively selected, one could actually get a very good sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us be very clear. I do not see any set of circumstances where we go back to the days where two or three political parties had the volume of people to do those independent verifications. I would love if that was possible but it is not. I think the point Mr. O’Leary is making is important. With that team of staff, so long as the staff know what they are looking for and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We support that fully. We have some of Europe's leading scholars in this area who spend a very significant amount of time in other jurisdictions relaying to their expertise. Exit studies have a huge value. Mr. O'Leary is absolutely right; any longitudinal study also needs to be able to talk to the people who do not vote. In the testimony we got from the political science community via Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Ryan will tell Mr. O'Leary we are not all bad at the committee; we are very constructive.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister and his staff for the briefing notes and explanation. I have a lot of questions about where the money is going and I might come back to some of those in the second round. The first thing I want to look at is where the money has come from. On the Revised Estimates sheet that we have been given, of the €586 million in additional money, €432 million is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am going to come back to that and I have queries around that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is all very interesting and some of it is what I would have come to, but it does not answer the first question. Again, I want to come to those other issues because they are important. There is within housing, at head A, an underspend of €432 million, which the Minister is then reallocating within the subhead, which I accept. We do not have the REV broken down by each individual...