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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bord na Móna (13 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 584. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm that both Bord na Móna briquette factories in Littleton, County Tipperary and Derrinlough, County Offaly will remain in operation in the coming years and continue to supply peat briquettes here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39797/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bord na Móna (13 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 585. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding progress on a biomass briquette; the impact it will have on the briquette factories (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39798/16]

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: Ten-week holiday.

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill which attempts to bring forward compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, for unzoned land for social housing construction, to change the rules determining compensation for local authority CPOs, to introduce rent certainty provisions and to bring forward the vacant site levy by two years. The Bill proposes to introduce the recommendations of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (8 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the locations for the 650 rapid build social housing units to be completed in 2017 and the 500 to be delivered in 2018, in tabular form. [39298/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Energy Rating Compliance (8 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated percentage of housing stock here that is at the different BER ratings, for example, the percentage of the housing stock that is A1, A3, B1 and so on. [39299/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (8 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of funding provided to each local authority for emergency homeless services in 2015 and 2016 to date, in tabular form. [39300/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Data (6 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the latest figures from the Residential Tenancies Board or elsewhere on the estimated number of tenants in the private rental market in rent arrears; and if he will provide absolute numbers and figures as a percentage of the overall market. [38538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Data (6 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the latest figures that his Department has for the landlord sector, including the number of properties it estimates are owned by smaller landlords who have one, two or three registered properties; the number owned by larger landlords who have more than three registered rental properties; and the number owned by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Data (6 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of landlords, tenants and tenancies registered in each of the years from 2000 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [38564/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (6 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total amount of money given on the rural water programme, private well grants and new group water schemes funding per annum from 2010 to date in 2016 on a county basis, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38871/16]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: I welcome the Bill. I compliment the Minister, his staff and the Seanad on the work they have done in the past number of weeks on analysing and scrutinising the Bill and making some very relevant amendments to it. The Minister said, quite correctly, that the housing crisis is the greatest challenge facing the Government and the country. We have been debating that point and we have sought...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated overall cost of the consultation, communication and engagement strategy of the Rebuilding Ireland programme; and the estimated and itemised cost of the dedicated website, social media engagement and so on. [38274/16]

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Barry Cowen: We will toss a coin.

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Barry Cowen: The Deputy should change the record.

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Barry Cowen: I acknowledge the thrust, will and desire of the Bill from Sinn Féin this evening. I acknowledge that strong rent certainty measures are necessary to help alleviate the record rent rates we have seen in recent years which have reached huge levels, were unforeseen and are contributing to the homelessness situation. Far too much of people's disposable income is being contributed to rent,...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Barry Cowen: My amendment states:To delete all words after “That” and substitute the following: “Dáil Éireann: recognising that:— the current level of rental inflation is not sustainable; — rent inflation in Dublin and other cities is severely impacting on disposable incomes, pushing people into homelessness and posing a risk to our economic stability and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (29 Nov 2016)

Barry Cowen: 288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide continued funding to the Ballymun social regeneration fund for 2017 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37346/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (29 Nov 2016)

Barry Cowen: 335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason those referred to JobPath are no longer eligible for a community employment scheme; his views on the impact that this may be having on the viability of community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37337/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (29 Nov 2016)

Barry Cowen: 384. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland donates UN specification-approved goods in kind to the central UN systems in lieu of part payment of Ireland's financial assessed contributions to the UN or as a component part of Ireland’s overseas development aid programme. [37610/16]