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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Functions (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all functions which fall within the responsibility of his Department and a list of all of functions delegated to the two Ministers of State within his Department. [7707/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 404. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 380 of 8 February 2022, if he will provide further clarification on the passport application of a person (details supplied). [8073/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of new school buildings for a school (details supplied) and destined to move into new premises located on the grounds of a school; and the timeline for commencement and completion of the new building and an expected date for when the school can commence teaching in its new building. [8360/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if it will be delivered with urgency given the demand for school placements in the area. [8413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement payments being made at present. [7627/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the €500,000 debt at a racetrack (details supplied) was cleared by Greyhound Racing Ireland; and the terms and conditions for clearing this debt. [7892/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (15 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 953. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider banning the surgical artificial insemination of greyhounds and other canines due to the growing body of veterinarian medical evidence regarding animal welfare issues from surgical artificial insemination of canines and in view that Britain has outlawed the practise. [7893/22]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Breach of Building Regulations) Bill 2022: First Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Breach of Building Regulations) Bill 2022: First Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and to provide for related matters. As Members of the House will be aware, tens of thousands of families across the country are affected by Celtic tiger-era latent defects and by defective building materials. As we speak, there are thousands of families with properties...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of social housing projects currently in his Department’s four stage approval process; and the average length of time these projects have been in that process by local authority. [7247/22]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average all-in development cost of Social Housing Investment Programme social homes delivered in 2021; the average all-in cost of turnkey social homes delivered in 2021; and the average all-in cost of Part V social homes delivered in 2021; and the average all-in cost of acquired social homes delivered in 2021, by local...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will revise circular 02-2022 on social housing acquisitions to allow local authorities to purchase second-hand properties in which such properties have HAP and RAS tenants in situ and the landlord is selling the property and has issued a vacant possession notice to quit thus placing the tenant at risk of homelessness....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Like other committee members, I welcome anything that will make it easier to convert vacant units into accommodation. I have two specific questions. Will the Minister remind the committee what, if any, other planning requirements are in place? While an application for change of use is no longer required, what else is required? The reason I ask this is because previously the Minister and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for their information. I compliment the officials on this report. It is probably the best Estimates report that we have got in my time on the committee. We have been given a table on page 8 that sets out expenditure line by line. The report then goes on to explain it all in detail. That is helpful from the committee's point of view. I am...