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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the qualifying conditions for the newborn baby grant announced in budget 2025; if children born in November 2024 qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43088/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the qualifying conditions for the double child benefit payment announced in budget 2025 and expected to be paid in November; if children born in November 2024 qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43089/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Capital Expenditure Programme (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 652. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital funding available from his Department for the delivery of new child and family centres that receive core funding from Tusla; and if, in the absence of any such funding, he is aware of any other capital funding sources from within Government, State agencies or other bodies that could be accessed to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a limited number of NEPS assessments available to each school; if so, the number; if the number of available assessments will be increased to ensure all students who require an assessment can access one; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42146/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have some very specific questions for the Minister to help me understand the Estimate. I will start with capital and A3. Of the additional €552 million, some €255 million of that is for the development levy waiver. That means there is about €297 million left for social housing. Is the bulk of that to fund the tenant in situ scheme or have there been increased costs...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That means there is €297 million for the housing element of it, rather than the development levy waiver, and €97 million for the tenant in situ scheme. I looked at the statement from the previous Estimates. I am not clear on where the €200 million has gone. I say that in the sense that the €200 million was not in the original Revised Estimate, but it is in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The next question relates to the increases in CAS, CALF and CREL, which combined comes to approximately €370 million. Again, is it fair to assume that it is not the case that the targets will be exceeded on the AHB side, it is more that it reflects the increased cost of the contracts coming in?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a big increase for CREL. It is €225 million. Is the Minister saying he believes that this year more than 800 cost-rental units will be delivered by AHBs?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking specifically about the CREL approved housing body cost-rental target. I would have thought a lot of that €225 million would be a mixture of construction sector inflation and the increase in the CREL to 55%.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of the overall capital increase of €1 billion, some €200 million of that is not new money into the Department. It is the reversal of a temporary reallocation. Is it then the case that the other €800 million is all additional money coming into the Department, or is there other money that has been moved around programme level expenditure allocations?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. I will ask my final two questions. There is a very big jump in LIHAF funding. Last year, only €20 million was spent on it and this year's allocation was €10 million. There is an extra €225 million in there. That is a very considerable change, and if there is any explanation for that, I would be interested in it. There were two areas of expenditure announced on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Likewise, with the disability and adaptation grants, there seemed to be a suggestion in the press conference that there was an extra €25 million, but the budget book across the two subheads was the same as last year, so it is just to clarify.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the extra €25 million that was announced at the press conference, is that for the disability adaptation or the wider adaptation grants?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it for the wider adaptation grants or the disability grants? There are two separate subheads. On the planning staff, there is an extra €8 million allocated in the budget for next year. Obviously, not all of that is for staff; there seem to be a couple of other things in a reply the Minister gave to a parliamentary question. What is the additional sanction for local authority...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, I saw that today.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the LIHAFs, in a single sentence, is the very dramatic increase as a result of some of the LIHAFs that were stalled because the legal actions are now getting drawn down?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.