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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases of the 61 Part V units in quarters 1 and 2 of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39221/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases of the 1,326 Part V units in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39222/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases of the 828 Part V units in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39223/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases of the 522 Part V units in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39224/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases of the 40 Part V units in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39225/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on additional financial supports being made available to senior citizens in respect of heating and telephones to support the increased costs of remaining in their homes for longer periods based on Covid-19 restrictions and advice; if she will take steps to support senior citizens with electricity, gas and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if new legislation will be introduced to deal with digital image-based abuse and sharing of images without consent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39220/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which the HSE Covid-19 guidelines for women who are 28 weeks pregnant are established; if his attention has been drawn to the recommendations of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Royal College of Midwives and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine regarding women who are 28 weeks pregnant or over; if he has raised these...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome the review and the commitment that has been made to expand Housing First. Will this review examine the changes that have been made in the past year or so in the increased use of private hostel operators who have been contracted to provide accommodation for people who have become homeless? These operators, in the main, do not provide support services with the accommodation. Is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is agreement in this House about wanting delivery of homes. Most of us want the same thing. The proposals that were voted down by councillors, including from the Minister's party, would have resulted in about half the site almost certainly going to an institutional investor and some of those homes effectively being rented back to the State under HAP. We know that there is planning...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide funding and support to Dublin City Council to build social and affordable homes on a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38186/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: In a follow up to the priority question tabled by Deputy Ó Broin, I ask the Minister if the Government will provide funding and supports to Dublin City Council to build social and affordable homes on the lands at Oscar Traynor Road.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his response and his comments. I agree with his previous comments that there needs to be consensus on this issue. A non-adversarial approach is the way to proceed. There needs to be quick delivery. That is a strong view in the local community. Beyond that we need housing delivered on this site and on others. There is full agreement on that. The Minister has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Proposals to develop this in the best interests of the local community so there is a decent amount of affordable homes that can be purchased and rented, as well as the social housing element, will require, for example, approval from central government and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to draw down significant funding from the European Investment Bank. Is the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that inspects private homeless hostels to ensure support services for persons who have become homeless are provided and to ensure that standards are met in the delivery of these support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Quality Standards Framework will be implemented in private hostels that have been contracted to provide accommodation for persons who have become homeless; the way in which this will be implemented given the absence of professional support workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his assessment of the cost effectiveness of the use of long-term leasing as a method of Part V delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38483/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown in the first half of 2020 of Part V units acquired or leased by local authority area by the number of units that were leased and the number that were purchased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38019/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections of homeless services that have been completed under the national quality standards framework by local authority area; if the inspections included private operators of emergency accommodation; the outcomes of the inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38372/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of contracts for new hostel accommodation for persons who become homeless from 1 January 2019 to date that have been awarded to private providers; the number awarded to not-for-profit NGO providers; the criteria used for selecting operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38514/20]