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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of units of renewable electricity that are determined by reference to data on the fuel mix in respect of the suppliers concerned, as published by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, for which relief is claimed from the electricity tax for 2022, in tabular form. [51628/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has received correspondence from a charity (details supplied) regarding a funding deficit; and what action his Department will take to ensure the service can continue. [51604/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (22 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which homeowners with building defects can apply for emergency funding for interim fire safety and other structural defects remedial work in advance of the introduction of the full defective building redress scheme; and when the emergency funding will be paid. [51227/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (22 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the visa extension application of a person (details supplied); and if she will indicate a timeframe for a decision. [51540/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of renters availing of the renters' tax credit in 2022 and to date in 2023; the total cost of the tax credit in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the breakdown, by county, of the number of renters claiming the tax credit and an average credit paid in each county. [50787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority home loan applications, approvals and drawdowns in each year from 2019 to date in 2023, in tabular form. [50652/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Advertising (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost to his Department for the production of the video screened at the start of the press conference launching the Housing for All Q3 Progress Report held on 14 November 2023; the company that provides the video; and if other details will be provided of a contractual or service level agreement with this company currently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank all of the team and the participants in the assembly. I want to acknowledge the enormous amount of work people did because it is an intense process. It is very helpful to us. I am a very strong supporter of a directly-elected mayor and, in fact, Cabinet-style accountable government at local authority level. Like the assembly members, I think a plebiscite is a useful way to generate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: More specifically, how important is it that the Government be clear in advance of the plebiscite about the actual powers that are to be devolved to the office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask another question in the short time I have. A part of the problem is that a Government White Paper was produced prior to the plebiscites in Limerick, Waterford and Galway, but it was only aspirational. Would it be helpful for the Government to publish the general scheme of the Bill? How far do we need the Government to go prior to the vote for there to be clarity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would a general scheme, if not the full Bill, be helpful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three observations and questions. My view is that there should be a plebiscite next year. I see no reason it could not be held. I think some consideration needs to be given to what the right time for it is. We have almost fallen into a lazy assumption in the public debate that it has to be at a certain point. Local elections have a much lower turnout than general elections and,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----while the turnout is higher. That might not necessarily result in a win. There has not been careful consideration in the debate so far of when, next year, the plebiscite could take place. There could be an argument that it should be a standalone event where nothing else is interfering in it. We need to tease those things out. I am like Mr. Gavin and am not waiting for another year....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Repeated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of this is me just teasing it out but given that the original decision to hold plebiscites in the other three cities was taken in 2018, and here we are five years on, it not that the quills move slowly, to use a very eloquent phrase that Mr. O'Leary used. It is about political will. One could have a general scheme in four months but it would require a Government to decide what is in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apart from Gaelic football, of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The issue of the referendum is the key thing here because we lost the referendum on the Seanad. Some people will say that was a good thing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----but that did have the vast majority of the political parties in the State supporting it. One can have all the parties in the State supporting it but if it is a civil society-led campaign, then it depoliticises the party politics. In our recommendations we need to think about that. Maybe, like the citizens' assembly, we can go outside our terms of reference if we think there is good...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (16 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of electric vehicles that received support though the SEAI accelerated capital allowance. [50397/23]