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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (15 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total approved borrowing by AHBs for the delivery of social housing in 2020 and 2021; the number of social homes delivered with that borrowing in 2020; and the target number to be delivered in 2022. [38831/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (15 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff who process requests in the Adoption Authority of Ireland; and if the service is operating at full capacity following pandemic related restrictions. [38910/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (15 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a university (details supplied) is requesting over €3,000 in up-front payments for on campus accommodation for the coming academic year despite the Government currently enacting legislation to prohibit same; and if he plans to intervene. [39033/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of land purchases by local authorities that have been approved by his Department in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; if he will provide a list of these purchases including location and hectarage; and the financing provided to each local authority for each land purchase. [38401/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Covid-19 restrictions are still in place in some hospitals in terms of maternity services; and the steps he is taking to ensure that partners and birth partners of pregnant women are able to be present for pre-natal scans, appointments, labour and at childbirth. [31395/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I confirm that I am in Leinster House. I thank the Minister of State for the presentation. I have some straightforward questions. First, will he outline to the committee the origin of the proposal and the rationale behind it? Was it lobbied for by any organisation, be that local authorities or industry? In the first instance, will he give us a little bit of background to it so we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his response to the questions and for the briefing documentation. We are more than happy to support the motion when it comes to the Dáil and Seanad today and tomorrow.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if musicians and bands are being refused access to the music entertainment business assistance scheme if they do not operate exclusively in the commercial live entertainment industry; if so, the details of same; and if she will reconsider this restriction given the vast majority of live musicians also seek to generate income...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if court ordered maintenance payments are included in the income assessment for social housing and HAP eligibility. [37242/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term lease and Part V lease approvals granted to date in 2021; the number of units in each approval; the local authority in which each approval was granted; the average annual cost of the lease in each development; and the average length of the lease in each development. [37991/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Birth Certificates (13 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a birth certificate application by a person (details supplied); and if the certificate will be issued urgently to enable the person to apply for a passport for the purposes of travel. [37204/21]

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin is not opposing these amendments. I will not repeat the broader debate we had on whether this is the right policy as we had that debate during Private Members' time this week. However, I will raise a number of concerns I would genuinely like the Minister to consider following the enactment of the amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act he has just outlined. In the...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief, as there are only four minutes left before the guillotine falls. I support the amendments, but given that we will not have time to discuss the Minister's significant amendment to Part V of the Planning and Development Act, I ask that he send a briefing note to the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage providing more detail on it. I also ask that his...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for that. I want to tease it out. I am genuinely open to the proposition in front of us. I have spoken to representatives of a number of smaller, more rural, local authorities who have indicated that even with the serviced sites fund, the delivery of affordable homes within the price point I would like could be difficult. In his second response I would like to pin the...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: My amendment in the group speaks to section 6 and the reference to open market dwelling, and that term is only fully explained in section 8. This is a significant innovation in the Bill that, from memory, I believe was not raised at the pre-legislative scrutiny phase or in the general scheme of the Bill. It is not clear what the Minister intends to do and my fear and that of Deputy...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will respond first to the comments of Deputy Matthews, the chairman of our committee. These amendments would not stop private investment in any housing project. It would stop a particular type of developer-led development, exactly as the Minister said. It would stop PPPs and joint ventures. Almost of all of the AHB sector, for example, is financed either directly by private finance from...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to amendment No. 24 in this group on the subject of PPPs. Public private partnerships are quite a new model for developing social housing in a context here. The first bundle, as the Minister knows, was completed earlier this year, with 109 of the first 500 in my constituency. They were tenanted recently. The difficulty with the PPP model is in the detail, and I want to...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I strongly support the Green Party amendments. I tabled similar amendments to the Land Development Agency Bill to promote the idea of community housing trusts. Unfortunately, we do not have a legislative basis for such innovative forms of housing development. They work well in continental Europe, especially in countries such as the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. It would be a positive...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak in favour of both amendments in the group. When the Oireachtas housing committee undertook pre-legislative scrutiny of this legislation, one of the recommendations unanimously agreed by all members of the committee, both from the Government and the Opposition, was that the many regulations the Minister will have to produce, both for the affordable purchase and cost rental...