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Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the opportunity speak about what is essentially a crisis in the arts, culture and entertainment industries. The Minister is correct that more than 35,000 people are employed across a range of professions. While much of this debate has focused on the front-of-house artists and performers, and rightly so, there is a panoply of people employed in these sectors, including producers,...

Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2020: First Stage (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. As Deputies across the House will be aware, the housing crisis has not gone away. Rents are still unsustainably high. In fact, the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, index published last week shows rents have increased 1.8% State-wide in the last 12 months and 3.3% outside of the greater Dublin...

Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2020: First Stage (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the capital advance leasing facility rules will be amended to allow approved housing bodies to provide both social and affordable homes particularly when acquiring turnkeys from the private sector. [28371/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if provision will be made in budget 2021 for a latent defects redress scheme. [28368/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the increasing length of time it is taking to process HAP applications; and his further views on the impact the delay may be having on tenants. [28367/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his review on co-living. [28370/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Trade Agreements (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 153. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the status of the publication of a report commissioned on the economic and sustainability impact assessment for Ireland of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement. [28112/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans approved in principle and drawn down in each local authority area in the first two quarters of 2020, in tabular form. [28160/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if businesses that are accessing the commercial rates waiver can continue to do so if they are also on the vacant sites register. [28631/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he has extended the pyrite mediation scheme to County Limerick while refusing to do the same for homeowners affected by pyrite in County Clare. [28751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties that have been secured to purchase arising from his call for housing; a breakdown of the number of houses secured by local authority type and number of bedrooms. [28752/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which funding for the greyhound industry was spent in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, for example, the amount spent on welfare and on which initiatives, in tabular form. [28113/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I start by saying that there are nine sitting weeks left in the session, so not including this week, we will have nine meetings in this room. We can have additional virtual meetings but it is nevertheless a short period. I assume we will have at least one, if not two, pieces of Government legislation during those nine weeks for which we will have to provide time. These are the marine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It might be useful if we re-circulate the original proposal that was agreed by the last committee. Essentially, my proposal is very simple. Instead of this committee producing a big report involving meeting representatives of the industry, experts and so on, the idea is to invite one person who was directly involved in the production of each of the five reports published between 1972 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do not have to make a decision today, but the specific request is that I be allowed to start doing the preparatory work as the author of the draft report. There is a fair amount of research which must be done before any hearings so I need the green light for that or otherwise for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a meeting we could do virtually which would give us a little more time and we would not be constrained to two hours. There have been 34 or 35 recorded deaths of people in emergency accommodation or sleeping rough. There is no official count, but those are the deaths that have been reported in the press. Dublin, Cork and Galway reported them. Last year there were 34 deaths in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to make one small point. For those Deputies who represent rural constituencies and, in particular, those in the Dublin commuter belt, the flip side of that is the lack of provision of emergency accommodation in other areas. As a result of this, people are forced into the parts of Dublin with larger volumes of emergency accommodation. One recent change is that the Dublin Regional...