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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Figures from the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, show within the last ten months 3,810 rent arrears warning notices have been issued and 1,122 notices to quit. Given that the general ban on evictions ended on 22 April 2021, there is a genuine concern that many of these tenants could end up losing their homes and becoming homeless. I ask the Minister to outline what he is going to do to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question was very specific. While the information that the Minister has provided is very interesting, it does not actually address the question. I look forward to him addressing the question in his response. The problem is as follows. The homeless figures for April 2021 show, for the first time in a long time, an increase the number of families with children in emergency...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, the Minister did not answer the very specific question. The single biggest cause of the dramatic drop in family homelessness in the last year was the blanket ban on evictions. One of the first acts of Deputy O'Brien as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage was to end that blanket ban. It was reintroduced when level 5 restrictions returned, but it ended again on 22...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the schedule of stock condition surveys of local authority properties detailing which developments in which local authorities will be surveyed in 2021 and 2022. [33762/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposal to transfer local authority water services staff to Irish Water and the creation of a single water utility for the State. [33761/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the interim report on mortality in the single homeless population 2020 published in June 2021. [33760/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commit to review Part M of the building regulations to ensure that all new social housing is fully accessible for wheelchair users to live as distinct from visit the homes. [33764/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the independent working group to examine defective housing including its terms of reference; the programme of work; and if he expects the group to meet the Programme for Government commitment to publish a report within a year of the Government being formed. [33763/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defibrillators Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered funding the bulk purchase of defibrillators for schools. [34104/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Mortality in Single Homeless Population 2020: Engagement with HSE (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is good to meet Dr. O'Carroll. I thank him for the report. It is a comprehensive piece of work and will be useful to this committee and, I hope, the Government and the DRHE in the time ahead. Rather than make a statement, I want to tease out a little bit more the most immediate actions Dr. O'Carroll feels are necessary for the Government to try to ensure a reduction in the number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Mortality in Single Homeless Population 2020: Engagement with HSE (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that last point, I was reading research recently in Britain. It has had a significant increase in deaths of people experiencing homelessness and one of the mechanisms it has is an adult safeguarding review. Is that the same kind of idea Dr. O'Carroll is talking about, in that there is a look-back when there is a death of somebody accessing any of those services to try to see what systems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Mortality in Single Homeless Population 2020: Engagement with HSE (24 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It absolutely does. Given the importance of this report - and unfortunately far too many reports end up sitting on the shelf and gathering dust - it would be really important for us to have Dr. O'Carroll before us again in six months' time to give us an indication as to what, if any, of the recommendations have been lifted and whether there has been progress on any of these from his...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to amendment No. 12, I will pick up a point Deputy Cian O'Callaghan made which I think is quite important. My understanding of the change in terms of an early termination of a tenancy by a tenant with 28 days' notice is that it should deal with the concern the Deputy is raising. If it does not, I would share his concerns about international students who prepay if, for reasons...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 13: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 4 of Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020 12. Section 4 of the Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020 is amended, in subsection 6, by the insertion of the following paragraph: “(d) any other person who, in the view of the Residential Tenancies Board, is...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 10: In page 5, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: ‘‘Amendment of section 19 of Act of 2004 5.Section 19 of the Act of 2004 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4): ‘‘(4) Subject to subsection (5), in setting, at any particular time, the rent under a tenancy of a dwelling in a rent...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the discretion of the Chair, I will speak to it amendment No. 13 and I will move it when we reach the section. The purpose of my amendment No. 10 is to deal with the issue we spoke about a moment ago, the 8% increase. The 8% or 12% increase was not an accident or the result of a loophole. The Minister will remember that back in 2016, in the dying hours of that Dáil term, there...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sharing time with Deputies Quinlivan and Mitchell. In some senses, this is a Bill of two parts. Part of it is very welcome, namely, that relating to the new protections for all tenants, as the Minister outlined. That is included as a result of the strong campaign by the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, and the cross-party Opposition Private Members' Bill on that matter, tabled...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the Decarbonisation Pathways for Ireland by a company (details supplied) is not being published. [33635/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (23 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of new applicants for the warmer homes scheme in 2019, 2020 and 2021. [33637/21]