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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four seconds before the Chair has to move on. Was the overall amount of money increased today or just the targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: How much extra money has gone into it today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, how much extra money was agreed?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage change in demand for gas in all sectors, including electricity generation, residential, and industrial and commercial, broken down by retail, construction, laundry, leisure, air travel, data centres, pharma, hospitals, and any other key sectors for the year 2023, in tabular form. [19507/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the absolute demand for gas in each sector, including electricity generation, residential, and industrial and commercial, broken down by retail, construction, laundry, leisure, air travel, data centres, pharma, hospitals and any other key sectors, for 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [19508/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school is held responsible for the delay in circumstances (details supplied) in the same manner as parents are held responsible when they do not meet the specified timeframes regarding appeals of this nature; and if she will provide advice in relation to further options for parents in this situation. [19398/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if concerns were raised by the EU Commission in respect of Part 9 of the Draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 in any engagement of his Department with the EU Commission, DG ENVI, following the publication in January of the Bill, including on sections 249 and 250, in any meetings held to date and in any associated minutes...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out how the cost rental tenant situ scheme will work; the person or body that landlords/tenants should approach if they are interested in applying for the scheme; the eligibility criteria; and if he intends to publish a regular report on the purchases through this scheme. [19056/23]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that some lenders are refusing to allow mortgage borrowers to draw down their mortgage in conjunction with the croí cónaithe towns refurbishment grant scheme due to uncertainty regarding the operation of the clawback provisions; his plans to resolve this matter; and the number of grant approvals and...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 7,433 new-build social homes delivered in 2022, by delivery scheme, including SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Part V and PPP. [19060/23]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that all local authorities are obligated to provide AHBs developing under the capital assistance scheme in their local authority area with the applicable unit cost ceilings, if he is aware of any circumstances where this is the case; and whether has a circular or guidance been issued on the matter. [19361/23]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the circumstances under which cost rental tenants may be eligible to access the housing assistance payment. [19362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is still the intention to extend opening hours of nightclubs; and if so, if a timeframe can be provided for when the change is expected to come into effect. [19452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (20 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 54. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of his Department in addressing the issue of premature deaths of single people experiencing homelessness. [11819/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government is in its third year and during all of that time house prices, rents and homelessness have increased. As the Government announced yesterday, it has missed its social and affordable housing targets for three years in a row. To come here and say that is evidence that the housing plan is working takes a brass neck beyond belief. Let us remind ourselves of the figures from...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage had a capital budget underspend of €1 billion between 2020 and 2022; — the primary cause of this underspend is the excessive bureaucracy and red tape imposed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on local authorities and Approved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I also want to acknowledge the significant amount of work done by them and their team. We are conscious of that. For the benefit of the committee, will Mr. Ó Coigligh or Ms Timmons remind us of last year's global target for affordable housing delivery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What was the delivery reported yesterday?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. I will go through a few questions. Within that there is a target of 500 affordable purchase homes. The number delivered was 323. That is not a new scheme. That scheme, under the name of the serviced sites fund, was introduced in 2019. How has it taken such a long time to get such a small number of affordable purchase homes? I accept that it takes 12 months to build these, and 12...