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Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is critically important. This is one of the first, if not the first, projects for delivery on cost rental, so I am surprised the witnesses do not have details on it. This is really important and I would be obliged if they came back to me on each of those points. Who will own the cost rental units in that development or who will manage them?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is Mr. Doyle saying he will revert to me with details on ownership?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Cost rental is one of the major planks of the Affordable Housing Bill. It is one of the most important interventions that can be made in terms of different types of housing delivery, different service facilities and different options for people on fixed incomes, incomes that are likely to change considerably, including those of key workers. It is a significant plank of-----

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This is a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts and I would appreciate proper answers being provided on this issue today.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not a relatively new scheme. It has been in development for some time. These projects are at a point of near delivery. It has been included in the Bill, which is published and is going to be debated in the Dáil. This means substantial pre-legislative work has been done within the Department. It is part of the vision for the Land Development Agency and part of what is being...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have several other questions but I will leave it there. I ask Mr. Doyle to come back to me specifically on the questions I have asked relating to cost rental generally and my specific questions relating to the Enniskerry site, the specifics of the serviced sites fund that will contribute to that, what the rent will be and how it will be set and by whom it will be managed. I refer...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Kelly mentioned the change to the one-stage process that was made last year. How does that work? How many homes have now been delivered through that new process?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is a big policy change, so it would be good to have that figure. I am interested in mixed tenure delivery. In my area, the Enniskerry Road development is delivering 155 homes, including 105 social homes and 50 cost rental. I am particularly interested in two aspects of the cost rental element. How much money is being provided from the serviced sites fund? How will that contribute to...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: And the management.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Tánaiste. This is great progress. It is not just about rural communities. In my town of Dún Laoghaire, 140,000 people live within ten minutes of a major urban town in the greater Dublin area, 34% of whom are under 30 and want to be in businesses driven by innovation and knowledge. George's Street, which is the main street, is 1.2 km long and has 264 shopfronts, many...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Tánaiste. Again, I appreciate his response and I go back to the climate imperative on using the structures we have, and there is a big opportunity to do so. The Tánaiste is absolutely right that we will have concrete retail spaces and new businesses, and we already see this coming into Dún Laoghaire and it is very exciting. We still have all of this vacancy and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress on the moves to ensure the option of remote working post-Covid-19; the details of his work with remote working hubs to enable greater flexibility in work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30106/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As we see light now at the end of the post-pandemic tunnel, we have all learned different ways of working. Will the Tánaiste update the House on progress to secure remote working for the future or the option of partial remote working for employees for the future? What steps have been taken to try to advance remote working hubs around the country? There is a big opportunity in my town...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment The number of loans approved for each State-backed loan scheme supported by his Department in Dún Laoghaire and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30105/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending learner permits that are due to expire taking into consideration that there is a huge backlog of driver tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30369/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures put in place by her Department to protect pupils and staff against Covid-19 in primary and post-primary schools to ensure a reduction in the number of students being sent home to self-isolate as a result of becoming a close contact; if lateral flow testing is being considered by her to tackle this issue; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the revised relationship and sexual education programme being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment for primary and post-primary schools; if this new programme will be rolled out in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30287/21]

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We cannot have it both ways, but we can have a bit of balance. I have seen people outdoors all over my constituency in small groups. I thank Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the effort it has made to put in appropriate outdoor seating, to change the streetscape to accommodate restaurants to make it easier to have people outside in a structured way when they reopen and to put...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports and funding available to local authorities for litter and cleansing measures in particular in 2021 to facilitate an outdoor summer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29367/21]