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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when plans to roll out the repair and lease scheme will be available to local authorities in counties Dublin, Meath and Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1181/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 563. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the restoration of the State transitory pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41467/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 482 of 13 December 2016, if he will provide the location and lease details of the premises providing this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1158/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1147. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent by the HSE on electronic devices (details supplied) in each of the years 2014 to 2016 for HSE staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1170/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff employed nationwide; the number of these that do not have an official HSE email address; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1171/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Reserve Data (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1390. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who applied to join the national reserve in 2016 and to date in 2017; if he will provide a breakdown of which schemes they applied under; the number approved in total; the number denied in tabular form under the following subheadings: young farmers, new entrants, young old; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1633. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons that accessed local enterprise offices, LEOs, for their services in all locations nationwide in each of the years 2014 to 2016; the number of staff employed in each location; the amount of funding each location has drawn down in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1657. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons that accessed the local enterprise offices nationwide for their services in each of the years 2014 to 2016; the number of staff employed in each location; the amount of funding each location has drawn down in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1264/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Sites Visits (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1662. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of industrial visits organised by IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland for the past five years, by location, in counties Louth, Meath, Monaghan and Cavan, and by potential investors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1558/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (17 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1664. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding an application for a work permit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1632/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result: Discusssion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will be brief. It has been very enlightening to listen to the witnesses. It is extremely important that the clarity of their thoughts and the facts they are giving us are in the public domain. They will certainly influence my thinking. The message I am getting and what I really understand is how important this matter is and how adversely it will impact on their lives and ours. The...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will repeat the point I made earlier. A solution to this problem is staring us in the face but we are not tackling it in this context. Vacant houses do not require JCBs or builders. They only require a key in the hands of the tenant so they can go up to the house and turn it. In this city alone, there are 36,000 such homes. We do not know how long they have been vacant. I acknowledge...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is an appalling statement which they have made. They do not represent the majority of landlords like the ones I know personally. I would have to use unparliamentary language to describe them. They are full of-----

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is more than anger. We need more radical solutions, if that is what people call them. I think they are practical, realistic and will put families in a home. It can be done quickly and we do not even have to build a house to do it. The houses are there already.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: No, it is the first. An chéad uair atá ann.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Apologies. I did not hear what the Ceann Comhairle said.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. That was one of my interventions. I would like to repeat my impression in that case. I want to make it very clear that it was anticipated last night that rent in one home in Drogheda, County Louth, will increase by 65%. In Dublin, the figure is a 35% increase. It is absolutely unacceptable. This legislation is solving the problem in Dublin inasmuch as that increase will not happen...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I did not sit in Cabinet regrettably.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I was not.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I did not interrupt Deputy Smith. I would ask her not to interrupt me, no matter how difficult it may be for her to remain silent for another minute. I hope that does not stress her too much.