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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Assisted Animal Reproduction (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds between 2019 and 2021; and the number of those inseminations that were carried out with sperm straws collected from now deceased stud dogs. [15919/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce regulation and a database of stud dogs. [15920/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: United Nations (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on Ireland's support, including financial, to the United Nations Committee on World Food Security; and if he envisages a strengthening of Ireland's support, including financial, to the committee as the foremost inclusive, international and intergovernmental platform on agriculture. [16316/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: United Nations (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that Ireland has supported the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation-led initiative on the Scaling Up Agroecology Initiative launched in 2018. [16317/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: United Nations (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that his Department is following up Ireland's commitment to food systems leadership internationally, that is, the Food Vision 2030 strategy; and his views on the actions Ireland has taken in support of participating fully in the coalition for the transformation of food systems through agroecology which Ireland joined in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: United Nations (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to redirect budgets and investments towards the sustainable and innovative approaches recommended in the CFS policy recommendations on agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition which Ireland endorsed in 2021. [16319/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank our guests for their presentations. I acknowledge the good work of the staff in the local authority sector and in the approved housing body sector in delivering social and affordable housing. I often feel if they were listened to more often, we would be a lot further on than we are. That is an argument for the Minister and not one for this meeting. The purpose of these sessions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Variance, given construction sector inflation, means that what could potentially be very positive in terms of the collapsing of phase 3 may not be available in reality. Would Mr. Curran have concerns about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope the Department is listening to Mr. Curran.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously without naming any counties or developments, we are hearing stories of projects that might not be able to proceed unless there is greater flexibility from the Department in terms of the gap between the ceilings and the new prices. Is that widespread?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want to ask people to repeat answers to the questions asked earlier if they have already got to them, but there are those issues I had raised in the first round, particularly for the Housing Alliance in terms of CALF as an equity share rather than a grant, and whether it has thoughts around that, and also on the payment and availability scheme review. I will throw in two other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps I could come back on both of those points. My question about the turnkeys was not to make a case against them. I understand why they are there and as long as they are done in the right way, they make sense. The difficulty is we are not getting any cost rental in Dublin city because the cost of the turnkeys is too expensive. We cannot deliver unless the Government decides to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three quick points and some follow-up questions. I respectfully disagree with Mr. Curran on one issue. Gross social housing need is not decreasing. We have 60,000 households on the council lists, 60,000 households on HAP, and just 20,000 shy of that on RAS. Those local authorities that still retain the good practice of presenting their members with gross and net housing lists, much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps Ms Cosgrove could comment on the P&A agreement, so this does not get lost again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: To ask a straight question, is now not the time to just decouple the calculation of the P&A from market rents and base it on full-cost recovery? If it is going to be the approach, is this not what we need to do now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that be approximately 150 of the total of 200 staff, if 50 positions are reserved for Dublin?