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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that he has taken to date on ensuring a contribution from relevant industries to the funding for dealing with defective block and or future defective building remediation; if he will provide a list of all meetings to date; the dates when these meetings occurred; if he will provide a report from the meetings; and the plans on the issue of industry...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of affordable cost rental at a location (details supplied); the level of affordable housing fund allocated; and the estimated cost of the cost rental homes. [32018/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of affordable homes on the glass bottle factory site in the Poolbeg SDZ; if he will provide a list of meetings held by him in the past six months with stakeholders; the name of the stakeholders; and the details of progress on the delivery of affordable purchase or affordable cost rental homes on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of social housing delivery to date; the number of schemes and units that have been delivered as part of the new build and acquisitions by each local authority and including approved housing body activity to the most recent date for which data is available. [32020/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 639. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) who started their adoption tracing process in September 2020 is yet to be assigned a social worker. [32576/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everybody for the useful presentations. There is a terrible sense of déjà vufor most. The witnesses were with us many years ago to have exactly the same conversation. A number of people on our side of the discussion made the point that we were in the middle of a deep housing crisis and that the focus was on the need to increase supply. If we did not ensure that it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: How much extra floor area is in question? I know it is specific to the device and individual, but what is a ballpark figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is simply extra floor space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not sure if Deputy Gould is here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On costs, the answer depends on the type of housing. If a private developer has bought private land then increasing the overall floor space will cost but that can be mitigated. For social housing, there should not be a significant extra cost in this instance. For example, in most cases social housing, where it is developed directly by a local authority, is on land that has an historic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I invite the following question and think I know the answer. Am I correct to say that Part M does not allow almost all of what Ms Carthy has described?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: So that everyone listening to this debate is clear, or people who will listen to this debate or read the transcript, who recommended those standards because they are not in Part M of the building regulations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister were to conduct a review, what do the witnesses want from such a review? How do those standards relate to what seems to me to be a sensible breakdown in the operation of Part M across the water in terms of the three categories of dwellings? Do those two sets of things relate or are they two different sets of standards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: So get rid of the minimum standard stipulated in Part M.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a further question, with the indulgence of the Chair. Do design manuals exist? Are they available? Is there good practice? The Department always tells us it is very busy and has lots of things to do. As approved housing bodies, organisations for persons with disabilities are doing some of this. How difficult would it be to put these design standards into the manual as part of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Something we have not spoken about, but it has been mentioned twice, is exemptions for build-to-rent housing. A large proportion, approximately 40%, of new apartments that have received planning permission in Dublin are built to rent. What standard must they comply with if they do not have to comply with the minimum standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: This means they all have to be compatible with Part M but those apartments built to rent do not have the option of the additional 10%. I presume not all planning applications that use the build-to-buy design standards from the manual avail of the extra 10%. Do we know whether this is the case? We probably do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It could be in gross floor area.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shameful. Scraping the barrel, Tánaiste. Shame on you.