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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]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are issues relating to the number of airport police or gardaí deployed at Dublin Airport; and if he will explain the reason there were no police or Garda personnel available to provide assistance at the airport on a specific date (details supplied). [60310/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Residential Property Services has been transferred to the LDA; if so, when this transfer happened; the number of residential units held by NARPS on transfer; the value of these properties; and the number of these properties currently in social housing leasing arrangements. [60939/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional gross and net annual cost to the state of every €1,000 increase to the social housing eligibility income thresholds up to €10,000 in tabular form. [60520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated additional annual expenditure that would be required from the Exchequer on the housing assistance payment by increases to the income eligibility thresholds for social housing in €1,000 increments from €1,000 to €10,000 respectively; and the number of additional households that it is...