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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Earlier this week the new Dunkettle Interchange, which is a major project costing €215 million, opened. It is really important to have completed the project, and within budget. There are a number of important projects in Cork city, especially the north ring road, the Mallow bypass and the Cork to Limerick road. All commercial traffic travelling to the Port of Cork from the north...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take the necessary steps to fully implement and fund the outstanding recommendations from the 2019 Joint Policy Statement, Housing Options for our Ageing Population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7037/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a revised timeline for the implementation of the outstanding recommendations from the 2019 Joint Policy Statement, Housing Options for our Ageing Population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7038/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the housing allocation model in relation to the development of any future specific housing schemes for older people; if he will take steps to ensure that a partnership approach is adopted between the HSE and the relevant local authority to identify the most suitable residents for same; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with other Departments and bodies to ensure that appropriate social and clinical supports programmes are put in place for older people within the private rental sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7040/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will liaise with the appropriate Departments for the purpose of establishing a distinct unit operating both within and across both the Departments of Housing Local Government and Heritage and Health to better plan for the growing needs of an ageing population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7047/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to take the necessary steps to ensure that eligibility for housing subsidies is based on available household income after deduction of essential household expenditure such as health expenses, energy and heating expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7041/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will fund a public awareness campaign to increase awareness of private residential tenancies legislation among older renters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7042/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give due consideration to increased ring fencing of social housing for older people in light of the particular difficulties experienced by this cohort in the private rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7043/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he take the necessary steps to ensure that 25% of social housing is reserved for older renters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7044/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to take the necessary steps to increase investment and evaluation of and development of promising housing models for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7045/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will allocate funding to invest in research for the purposes of collating age related, tenure specific data to better understand and predict the needs of older renters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7046/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to increase investment in the housing adaption grant scheme and to provide incentives to private landlords to apply for same, similar to tax deductions granted to small scale landlords who undertake retrofitting works while tenants remain in situ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7048/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to work with the relevant bodies to ensure higher levels of compliance with accommodation quality standards in the private rental sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7050/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to invest in alternative, secure and age appropriate housing for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to reviewing the housing assistance payment and rent supplement on an annual basis to ensure that the subsidy increases match increases in the private rental sector market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7049/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to benchmarking the State pension, to ensure that older people do in the private rental sector do not experience undue hardship in the context of rent affordability and expenditure on critical items such as heating electricity and healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when ACRES-CP payments to farmers in the scheme for 2023 will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7099/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The Minister of State mentioned how one in five children in primary school is obese. If so, there needs to be messaging, not only to students, but also to parents. How do we communicate this to parents as well? Obviously, we are not succeeding in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Coming back to the issue of primary schools, is there a programme about messaging parents? Messaging is happening in the schools, but what about messaging parents directly through the schools?