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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What does the Minister advise people to do in April?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a simple question. What does he advise people presenting to local authorities?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no plan for April.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the question I am asking. What does the Minister advise those families to do? He has not answered that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Then why is homelessness increasing?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What do those families do in April?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the Minister's advice to those families in April?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister has no answer.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the reform of Technical Guidance Document B of the Building Regulations. [11818/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the implementation of recommendations of the 2019 report by the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation. [11816/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Mulcahy report into allegations of planning malpractice in County Donegal; and the actions he intends to take on foot of the reports findings. [11817/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the enhanced defective concrete block redress scheme. [11815/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 295. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the White Paper to end direct provision and establish a new International Protection Support Service has explored the extension of the HAP to the sponsor prior to the arrival of family in cases of family reunification; if so, if this change is likely to be adopted; and if not, if it is something his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair. Mr. Hogan and I have had a relationship for almost a decade, both in our time in South Dublin County Council and since he has moved into the Department. He knows that I am very loath and reluctant to criticise officials. I want to say that at the outset before I make my remarks. I also want to acknowledge the enormous amount of work that he and his team have put into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that a criticism? It sounds like a criticism of the people you consulted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, are you saying that was an accidental omission, or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully accept the complexity of this, and I do not want to underestimate the Department's task, but does that not speak to the request that many of the external organisations have made that we need to take little bit more time with this? They have said that the urgency has almost created a set of problems, and that for the sake of a few extra months we could end up with a better Bill. Does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am out of time and I am conscious that Deputy O'Callaghan has the same difficulty as me. I will come back to the specific questions in a further round, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and apologise for my absence. I want to take us back to the plan-making and policy portions of the Bill because if we get those right, we will not necessarily have to have as much discussion around what happens at the latter end. For me, these are crucial sections of the Bill. Can Mr. Hogan give us as much detail as he has about where we are with the transitional...