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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is called planning law.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — house prices continue to spiral out of control; — a growing section of people are locked out of home ownership; — the latest Central Statistics Office Residential Property Price Index shows house prices increased by 15 per cent State-wide in the last year; — the largest increases were in the border...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that will be eligible to benefit from the warmer homes scheme’s extended qualification criteria to include those in receipt of the disability allowance for over six months and have a child under seven years. [23025/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 15 February 2022, when the Annual Transition Statement will be published. [23026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Parliamentary Questions (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a reply to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 1 March 2022, will be published. [23027/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to carry out a follow up Social Impact Assessment on the programmes targeting energy poverty since the assessment that was published in October 2020 which found the level of data collected was insufficient to provide an assessment of the schemes’ impact on recipients. [23028/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes targeted per retrofit scheme; and the number of fossil fuel powered boilers installed per scheme in tabular form. [23029/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes in the warmer homes scheme that have achieved a building energy rating, BER, of B2 or greater for years 2019-2022, in tabular form. [23030/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the delays of up to four months for National Car Test, NCT, appointments; and the plans that are in place to deal with the backlog. [22710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish the report into allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal; and the actions that he intends to take on foot of the contents of the Mulcahy Report. [22768/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of rapid build homes funded by his Department in each of the years since 2016, broken down by the number in each local authority; the average cost per unit in each county; and the average delivery time from conception, planning, commencement and completion again in each local authority in tabular form. [22777/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been a change in policy with respect to tenants in arrears with their HAP payments to local authorities entering into repayment agreement; and if so, the policy change; and when it was introduced. [23245/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the difference between the Quality Standards Framework that applies to voluntary sector homeless emergency accommodation and the Quality Standards Framework as it applied to private providers of emergency homeless accommodation in tabular form. [23246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental homes he expects to be delivered via the cost rental equity loan in 2022; and the number of affordable purchase homes he expects to be delivered via the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022. [23357/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing acquisition limits and or targets for each local authority for 2022. [23405/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by parents in securing secondary school placements for children in Rathcoole, County Dublin; the plans of her Department to increase secondary school placements to meet demand in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22701/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 587. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to issues for small ECCE services under the core funding model (details supplied); and if he will consider changes and or alternatives to ensure the services can continue. [23457/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. We have some wonderful housing for older people, especially in the public sector, right across the State. In deference to Senator Cummins, I was in St. John's College in Waterford, which is a wonderful Respond development recently funded by the Department. I refer as well to McAuley Place in Naas, which is also such a wonderful facility, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Timmons. I will make one strong recommendation. When I speak to constituents living in larger homes, which they feel are too big for their needs, the one condition they always express for a rightsizing option is that it be in the same immediate locality. They would like to be able to walk to the church or bingo and remain part of their social networks. We are moving to some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume the way the amendments will be set up for the fair deal changes would not preclude, for example, an owner entering into a housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, arrangement with a local authority. The reason I am saying that is because obviously then the signposting to make sure that the owner of the property who may want to rent out knows what all of...