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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank all of the witnesses for all their answers. Apologies, I had to step out for a little bit of work. I know it is a long meeting but the information they have given us is genuinely valuable so I hope they do not feel we are having them here under sufferance. I have one request and two questions. This committee is doing a separate piece of work trying to understand housing need and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they were included, would we be looking at a total of 7,500 to 8,000 households?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The split is approximately 50:50 in terms of the council list-plus. This point is important because it is not common practice for all local authorities to present their elected members with a gross and net need. Having a gross need figure is a really useful tool. When the Housing Agency publishes its summary of housing needs assessments, which it will do again later this year, it only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was I who asked the question and that is my interpretation of the answer. There was not clarity in the response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is very good news. I presume then that when the council reports back to its elected members, the reporting mechanism will reflect that? I take it, then, that what is in the December housing delivery action plans is one thing but the figures are adjusted by councils as they move through the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The previous Government's housing plan expired in 2021. From that plan, 6,000 or so units were missed across the State over the final two years. Those 6,000 units have not been added into anything else. The councils have a separate set of targets they have agreed with the Department under the new plan and if those targets are missed, they will be rolled in and carried forward. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: My point is not to criticise the lost targets, which happened for a bunch of reasons. It is more about wanting to understand the transition from one plan to another and what happened to the very considerable number of units, numbering 6,000 between 2020 and 2021 across a range of local authorities, that were lost. Where do they go? Are they subsumed into the new targets, added to the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: My observation is not specific to Galway City Council but is a general one. If we take the social housing target in the first year of the Housing for All plan, it is approximately 9,000 units for the new-build programme, whereas Rebuilding Ireland was to end in 2021 with delivery of 10,000 units. Even though there was a significant loss of units from the targets in 2020 and 2021, the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses and apologise for taking more time than I should have done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On section 10s, what kind of timelines are we looking at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is remarkable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think many of us are aware of delays for very large complex projects. I appreciate what Mr. McGrath is saying about those with proximity to special areas of conservation, but for the board to take so long to make a decision on such small residential developments is remarkable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: How long has it been with the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a good point and I thank Mr. McGrath for raising it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given that the Department will not agree the actual figure that will be refunded until the very end of the process, it is a big risk for a manager to take.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 320. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare facilities currently registered with his Department in an area (details supplied); the number of childcare spaces available throughout these facilities; and if his Department is aware of further applications for registration of childcare facilities in this area in the coming months....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE intends to establish a primary care centre at an address (details supplied); and if so, the services that will be available to the community once established. [50802/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an issue presenting at a medical centre (details supplied) where initial consultations for patients experiencing menopause are over twice as expensive as general consultations, and repeat prescriptions for treatment for menopause are charged at three-times more than other repeat prescriptions; his views on whether this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an issue presenting at a medical centre (details supplied) where initial consultations for patients experiencing menopause are over twice as expensive as general consultations, and repeat prescriptions for treatment for menopause are charged at three-times more than other repeat prescriptions; his views on whether this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 438. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken research to ascertain the costs of providing financial assistance to patients on hormone replacement therapy for menopause; if his Department intends to introduce financial assistance for these patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50921/22]