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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 648. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children waiting for assessments of need broken down by the disability network team; the average waiting time for such assessments in each DNT; the total number of children waiting for interventions post assessment including speech and language, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and other supports broken down by DNT; and the average...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 676. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cases that have been taken section 38A of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in relation to costs incurred in respect of seizing and keeping the animal during its detention; and the amount of costs paid. [62019/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is good to have them back before the committee. Like Senator Fitzpatrick, I acknowledge the very significant volume of work they and all their teams do in providing much-needed social and affordable homes to their tenants. On Mr. Hannigan's point on professionalisation, it is a very good thing but it is also important that, as their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has Mr. Dunne any visibility on when that might be completed and published? We do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, said it was the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, so that means it could be there for quite a long time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If that is where we are going to end up, surely it is better to get it done and deal with the consequences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good if, after the meeting, the four organisations were in a position to share commencement targets and commencements with the committee. That way we will all get to have them rather than-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is very interesting.

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are getting 45 minutes to consider amendments to a technical Bill. The Government often blames committees, arguing that it takes them too long to do pre-legislative scrutiny and that is why there is a rush at the end. Our detailed, considered report has been with the Government for two years, yet it is only now that we are getting to debate the Bill, with only a tiny amount of time...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for so ably filling in for his colleagues on such technical legislation. This Bill, despite its technical nature, is important. Since the water framework directive was introduced in 2000, there has been an obligation on this State to know something very simple, namely, how much water is extracted from our natural water sources at any given time across the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sure that the Minister of State will be relieved to know that I will not rerun either the Second Stage debate or the considerable committee deliberations that we had. I want to briefly put on record my strong opposition to the appointment of the Construction Industry Federation as the registered body. To be clear, I fully support the need for the register. As the register is a good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Procedurally, do we get an opportunity to not agree to that or is that just a procedure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just wanted to check that.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legal basis for his appointment of an interim chair to An Bord Pleanála. [61144/22]

Building Defects: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: welcomes the publication of the Report of the Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing; notes that the report: — estimates up to 100,000 homes could be affected by building defects; — estimates that the cost of remediating these defects could be as high a €2.5 billion; and — outlines options for the creation and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department is considering further support payments to households in order to assist in meeting increased fuel costs. [60322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to allowing households transfer the €200 electricity credit payment onto their fuel accounts in order to assist in meeting fuel costs. [60323/22]