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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister in a position to tell us the number of affordable homes delivered through the three principal public housing affordable schemes set up by his Department last year before the housing fund cost-rental equity loan and the Land Development Agency's Project Tosaigh?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The housing plan has an aggregate target for affordable homes for last year of 4,000 units, as the Minister knows. At no stage has the Minister provided Deputies with a breakdown of how many of those will be through affordable housing fund purchase, the cost-rental equity loan by AHBs, Project Tosaigh or, indeed, the very controversial shared equity loan.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, the shared equity loan homes are not affordable. They are giving people an additional layer of debt but I do not want to have that debate today. What I want to know is what was delivered with the funding provided by the Minister to local authorities and AHBs? We know from the LDA’s website that Project Tosaigh delivered only 48 cost-rental homes last year. As...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concern is twofold. With respect to the affordable housing fund purchases, in my own constituency homes were effectively completed midway through the year but because of disputes over legal contracts, they have not yet been purchased. We expect them to be purchased by February. That means those homes were not ready for occupation. In the Minister’s constituency, he launched...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the CALF and CREL reviews; and the number of CALF and CREL homes delivered in 2022. [3596/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the principal changes to apartment design standards set out in the Guidelines for Planning Authorities published in December 2022; and if this set of guidelines fully supersedes the two previous sets of guidelines published in 2018 and 2020. [3593/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the implementation of the 32 recommendations from the Expert Group Report on Traveller accommodation. [3595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg SDZ, St. Michael's Estate, O‘Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road. [3594/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the research by or on behalf of his Department into premature deaths of persons experiencing homelessness. [3810/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of Part V social housing units by local authority for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [3832/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average annual cost of Part V leasing social housing units by local authority for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [3833/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of turnkey social housing units by local authority for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [3834/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Cronin and the team for coming in. Like the Chair, I welcome the publication of the general scheme. Our view is this is important and the sooner it progresses in the right direction, the better for all of us. The legislation is much delayed and many of us were of the view that it would have been better had this been introduced in parallel with the offshore planning regime, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In terms of the drafting and approval of that policy statement, is it envisaged that there would be a public participation element to it or Oireachtas engagement? What period of time will it take to produce that policy statement? What will its relationship be to the other policy mapping requirements, for example, under the related legislation we have dealt with in the past two years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the decision of the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The language is “up to 30%” rather than “30% by 2030”, so that gives some wriggle room. Why that softer language and what would be the implications, particularly from an EU enforcement point of view, if we were not to meet that 30% by 2030?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The question was on what the timeframe was. While the designation process was happening, was there no consideration of pending or interim designations? I am asking about the overall timeline of the designation process but also interim measures. When discussing the marine planning legislation, for example, and given that we had a series of legacy wind farm projects that had reached their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The explanatory note for head 13 reads: "rapid identification of areas which are not suitable for Offshore Renewable Energy". Given that there must be some assessment by the Government when the maritime areas of consent, MACs, are being issued by the Minister, this assumes that those sites are unlikely to cross head 13. These would be other sites. Is this a fair interpretation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Regarding legacy projects, one of the concerns with the Bill has nothing to do with opposition to renewable energy, as renewable energy is something we all want. Given that MACs are in the process of being issued, or have been issued, by the Minister, where head 13 refers to the "rapid identification of areas which are not suitable for Offshore Renewable Energy", I presume we are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have to step out for a second.