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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: They absolutely are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are all from the country originally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have just two points to make. The one fact that has not been mentioned is the number of rental properties being lost to the market every year. According to the RTB, since January 2017 to September this year we have lost 20,000 rental units. That is the single biggest loss of rental units in three decades, which obviously means there is additional pressure on the system. According to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 632 of 3 November 2020 and 297 of 1 December 2020, the difference between the average social housing capital investment figures for Dublin city in 2019 and the SHCIP projects on which both sets of figures are based in tabular form. [42732/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the €108 million of State funding allocated to the bog rehabilitation scheme; the amount for decommissioning of power plants or peatland rehabilitation; the regularity with which this funding will be made available.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41218/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the subsidies for electric vehicles by BEV and PHEV and by model and private or company purchases. [41529/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if steps will be taken to expedite a driver theory test backlog for a person (details supplied). [41805/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which rescheduled driver theory tests cancelled due to level 5 restrictions are being managed alongside bookings already made; and if cancelled tests are being prioritised now that test centres have reopened. [41858/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of and position regarding the operations of National Asset Residential Property Services, NARPS, including the number of residential properties currently held by the vehicle; the number of same leased to social housing providers; the length of the lease terms; the annual cost of these leases to the State; and the future plans for NARPS including...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated tax revenue forgone due to benefit-in-kind taxes applied to company electric vehicles. [41530/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Resolution Processes (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private mortgage to rent providers are outbidding not for profit mortgage to rent providers on mortgage to rent deals and in doing so introducing a level of risk to the stability of the mortgage to rent tenancy; and his plans in this regard. [41523/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Resolution Processes (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for mortgage-to-rent since the scheme was introduced; the number of applicants who have been improved; and the number of mortgage-to-rent sales closed by year since the scheme was introduced. [42040/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital funding owed by his Department to each local authority by capital funding type, that is, social housing, retrofitting, maintenance, adaptation grants and so on, in tabular form. [42035/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he proposes to take to tackle advertised rental properties which consist of less than the 29 square metres per person as recommended in the report furnished to him by his Department’s planning division on co-living shared accommodation. [42080/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that priority is given to residential developments that are within 15 minutes' walk or 15 minutes morning peak hour public transport accessibility of a high density employment cluster, defined as 500 workers per hectare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42081/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Kelly and Mr. Lemass for their presentations. This is the fifth year in a row in which, in the final two weeks before the summer recess, very substantial planning and residential tenancies amendment legislation has been dropped into existing Bills that are before the Dáil. There are several problems with that. None of the points I will make are a criticism of either of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: What sort of fine would we expect in the Derrybrien case if it was to go to the middle of next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will be somewhere between €15 and €20 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a concern that this could open up problems for the legal standing of substitute consents that have been approved to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just want to clarify public participation in the context of the last two questions. Is it in phase 1 and phase 2? Will it be all aspects of the existing cases, including documents and information concealed, and the exceptionality test?