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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the capital project for a school (details supplied); if a timeframe can be provided as to the commencement of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25363/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 173. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has directed any relevant body under her aegis to prepare a report under section 15(2) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, as amended. [25461/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Government is waiting for the new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive to start requiring measurement of embodied carbon emissions (i.e. 2027), while other European Union member states, such as Denmark, are already addressing this issue, given that embodied carbon emissions from the construction industry...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to give councils and the Housing Agency any flexibility with the income limits for cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme to ensure that applicants whose income is just over the upper income limit for cost rental are not excluded from the tenant-in-situ scheme and thus rendered homeless. [25457/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of general Government capital expenditure on social and affordable housing by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency in 2022 by funding via voted-Government capital expenditure, Approved Housing Body-borrowing for capital developments and LDA capital expenditure in each of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (24 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of individuals currently awaiting driving licence test appointments; the average length of time between booking a test and the test taking place; the reason for these exceptionally long delays; and the plan he is putting in place to shorten this waiting time. [25197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Legislative Programme (24 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 119. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the progress of the short-term tourist letting Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25135/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Sales (24 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the sale of private properties with structural defects at a location (details supplied); if he is concerned with such sales; and if he will outline the powers, if any, he has to ensure that where properties with structural defects are being sold, there is a duty on the seller to fully declare such defects....

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this very important discussion. Like my colleague, Deputy Brady, I want to start by saying clearly that protesting outside the place where somebody lives is wrong, whether it is somebody's home, a reception centre or a tent on the street. There is simply no justification under any circumstances for such activities. Blockading people going to where they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. Like Senator Fitzpatrick, I thank them and the men and women of the Dublin fire service and fire services throughout the State. They do not just provide a vital front-line public service; they put themselves in harm's way to keep all of us, our families and our communities safe. It is important to acknowledge that. Sometimes, the most technical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Keeley, from his knowledge of where the review is going, think this is likely to be dealt with in the revised document, as published, or more likely to be dealt with subsequently through the review group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Keeley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is exceptionally interesting. To go back to the issue of the fire safety certificates and the complex buildings, it is positive that Mr. Keeley thinks the revised technical guidance document is moving in the right direction. From the brigade's own assessment, I think about 80% of the appeals by developers against the conditions that were proposed by the brigade were upheld by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Keeley indicated that Dublin Fire Brigade has been talking about the need for sprinkler systems in these more complex buildings for around seven years. Nobody today should be surprised to get a fire certificate from Dublin Fire Brigade requesting a sprinkler system for a complex building. Sprinkler systems increasingly are much more cost effective. The cost is coming down despite the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the second staircase, is Mr. Keeley talking about buildings between 10 m and 20 m, or above 20 m?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Between 10 m and 30 m or 10 m and 20 m, is the ask for sprinkler systems?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: All of this works on the assumption that the staircases are internal to the building. Some of the new designs we see from architects in other jurisdictions, particularly low-rise mid-density or mid-rise high-density show a return to more external staircases or landings. I presume, from a fire safety point of view, there are advantages to external exits and stairwells being built into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Finally, I want to pick up on Deputy O'Callaghan's final question about combustible cladding and combustible insulation materials. Is it Dublin Fire Brigade's expectation that those areas, which do not currently have clarity in the existing technical guidance documents, are likely to be addressed in the revised document?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for leaving early but I have to go to the Dáil.