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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on progress towards meeting the target of 5% electricity demand reduction at peak time per Article 4 of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 of 6 October 2022 on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices. [22730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide update on progress towards meeting the target of 10% gross electricity demand reduction per Article 3 of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 of 6 October 2022 on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices. [22731/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he has conducted any analysis on the effect of increasing demand for gross and peak electricity on the cost of electricity. [22849/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance the anticipated revenue in 2023 from the vacant property tax if it were to be increased to 1%, 2%, 3%, 4% and 5% with a vacancy rate of 3.2% and 7.8%, in tabular form. [23258/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proportion of contracts awarded under the Office of Government Framework for the Provision of Electricity Supply to Public Sector Bodies in Ireland that were 100% renewable. [22666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a clear policy regarding devices for school work in secondary schools; if she is aware that some schools insist students have both a device and a physical textbook in their possession; if she agrees with this practice, given the significant cost to parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22966/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools can request a monetary contribution per child from parents toward the cost of providing the free primary schoolbooks scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22967/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Area Plans (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all stalled capital advance loan facility-funded social housing projects, indicating the local authority in which they are located and the number of homes involved in each location; the measures he intends to take to get these projects up and running; and if he will ensure that other projects are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all organisations and individuals that have made a submission to his Department’s review of Part B of the building regulations. [22479/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 561. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when enhanced medical cards will be made available to survivors of mother-and-baby-home institutions. [22535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 646. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware there is a significant shortage of some medications at the current time; if he is aware that pharmacists are unable to indicate when the issue will be resolved; and the action, if any, his Department is taking to assist in resolving the matter in order to ensure the correct medication is available to those who require it. [22643/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: This week, we heard the heartbreaking personal testimony of Micheline Walsh and her husband, Richard. They are in their late 70s, have been overholding for more than a month following an eviction notice and currently have nowhere to go. Micheline was not just highlighting her own case but those of the many older people who are at risk of homelessness and the hundreds of people over 65 who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everyone for their presentations. Everyone is in favour of bus stops, deposit return machines and street furniture, but the trick is how these are implemented and that is sometimes not as straightforward as we think. I have specific questions on the implementation of these measures and ensuring that they work right, because we are all broadly supportive of them. Will the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: On guidance, could the issue of storage be included, if it is not included already? Again, when street furniture is being used generally, increasingly it is cordoned off and that is welcome but the guidance does not also refer to storage and ensuring that when it is not being used, that everything is stored inside or in an appropriately safe location. Can that be considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Then on my first question as to with whom the Department had consulted in bringing forward these regulations, was it the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, or ------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: And disability or visually impaired advocacy groups?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Sheridan might know the answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, but one of the questions I asked in the first round was not answered. I presume the reason for this is just to speed up the process by which the bus stops, vending machines and street furniture can be implemented. In terms of time, what is the actual time saving from the exemptions? The second is with respect to street furniture and advertising. Certain drinks advertisers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that, we have a bizarre situation in Dublin at the moment where planning permission had been previously granted for telephones, back when not all of us had mobile phones. Those structures still exist and are there, but they no longer have telephones on them. They have commercial advertisements, and even though the planning was granted for the purpose of having a payphone, they are now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Regarding the time of the planning gain, for example, with regard to the NTA and Dublin Bus, what will be gained, time wise, from not having to go through planning?