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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman and the committee secretariat for facilitating this meeting at short notice. I want to make a couple of remarks. I accept members will not want to delay the meeting because we went through much of the detail on this matter yesterday. We are in an unacceptable situation. The Minister has known for some time that the April deadline was approaching, but instead of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief, but it would be wrong of us as a committee not to give a small amount of time to the Bill such that public understands what it is we are doing here today. I am not debating the Bill; I just want to make two comments on it. I will debate the Bill when it comes to the House next week, if that is the outcome of today's vote. There is a proposal that for those tenants who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Chairman to allow me to finish. I do not think it is appropriate to rush any member who wants to comment on this. If other members are not willing to compromise, I will be voting against the Minister's request because it is bad practice that leads to bad legislation and I cannot stand over that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (11 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to develop an online driver theory test process. [13812/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure an adequate provision of general practitioner services for the expanding population of Lucan, County Dublin. [13603/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost for shallow works, deep works and deep works with heating upgrades under the warmer homes scheme. [12755/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the criteria for deciding whether to complete shallow, deep works or deep works with heating upgrade under the warmer homes scheme. [12756/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Communities Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated total scheme spend in relation to the better energy communities scheme for 2020; the energy poverty spend; the domestic spend; the number of homes completed; and the number of energy poverty homes completed. [12757/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to concerns among residents in Lucan, County Dublin due to the high volume of activity at Weston Airport; the restrictions in place on activity at the airport; and the measures in place to ensure all public health guidelines in relation to international travel are adhered to by those arriving into...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties experienced by drivers who have taken up normal residence in Ireland within the past 12 months and need to exchange their driver licences; and if he will consider an extension to the one-year timeframe in view of these difficulties. [13040/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the working group on rural planning guidelines in his Department; and when revised guidance on the issue of rural planning will be provided to local authorities that are revising their development plans. [12475/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the report by his Department into allegations of planning irregularities in County Donegal. [12476/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 310 of 24 February 2021, the reason the response did not include an update on the involvement of the Land Development Agency in the Colbert Lands, Limerick and Strand Road, Galway; if the involvement of the Agency in these sites will be clarified; the way in which it differs to its...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architects Register (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the register for architectural technicians. [13462/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the tenure breakdown for each of the nine sites the Land Development Agency, LDA, is currently working on; and the percentage of proposed homes to be social rental, affordable cost rental, affordable purchase and open market sale in tabular form. [13313/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown by local authority of long term leasing and long term leased Part V approvals for 2018, 2019 and 2020; the annual cost of each lease; the lease review period in each case; the length of each lease; and if the property remains in private ownership at the end of the lease term or ownership transfers to the local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the financing model for the cost rental scheme currently being piloted by his Department includes 60% loan finance from the Housing Finance Agency or private banks, 30% equity contributed by the State through the cost rental equity loan scheme and 10% contribution from the approved housing body provider; and if this 10%...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the 30% cost rental equity loan will be calculated in future years when the approved housing body reaches the point of having to repay the equity; if it will be passed on the open market value of the property or some other calculation; if there will be an interest charge on the equity loan; if so, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons receiving a jobseeker’s allowance; the number of persons in receipt of jobseeker’s for more than 390 days; the number of persons currently receiving the fuel allowance who qualified due to being in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance; and the number of persons receiving a working...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (10 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding his Department has provided to an organisation (details supplied); and if the funding was drawn down under section 38 or 39 funding. [12671/21]