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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for his attendance. As he knows, the funding mechanism for this project is something called the housing land initiative, which predates the formation of this Government. It is wholly inappropriate for delivering good quality public housing on public land. There is an alternative, which the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage,...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: St. Cuthbert's Park is a medium-sized park in south-west Clondalkin, in my constituency, which is surrounded by some 2,000 houses, comprising both council housing and private homes. The people living in Bawnogue work very hard and pay their rent or mortgage and their taxes, including the property tax. They contribute enormously to the very vibrant local community. For example, the Friends...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review on co-living; and when he plans to publish the review. [36245/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority houses accessed annually for accessibility for disabled persons. [36932/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the local authority housing stock currently available that is accessible for disabled persons. [36933/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanisms in place for assessing the effectiveness of the National Housing Strategy for Persons with a Disability 2011; and the impact it has had on disabled persons’ lives. [36934/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing supports available for disabled persons that do not qualify for social housing supports. [36935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the ongoing EU Commission and European Court of Justice legal action against the State for breaches of the urban waste-water treatment directive. [37016/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if private emergency accommodation providers are to be included in the quality standards framework and inspection regime developed by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive; and the level of inspection of voluntary sector emergency accommodation that has taken place since the framework was introduced. [37097/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Domestic Pets (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of infringement orders taken to date under the sale or supply of pets regulations 2019. [36556/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Domestic Pets (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional resources allocated for the enforcement of the sale or supply of pets regulations that came into effect on 1 February 2020; and if he or his Department has held meetings with the online platforms since their introduction. [36557/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Domestic Pets (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress on the establishment of a central GDPR-compliant database to collate the registration numbers of sellers or suppliers of dogs, the dog breeding establishment licence numbers and the unique microchip identifier assigned to dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36558/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for being late. I suppose, in some senses, today's discussion is less about policy because that is really for the Minister and the programme for Government. This is more about how the Department sets out those policies in a strategic statement. I will restrict my questions to those areas rather than policy areas because that is for another meeting. Many of us are interested,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department in its previous form, as the Department with responsibility for the environment, used to produce an annual book of statistics. It was normally produced at the very end of the year or the start of the subsequent year. It provided a great deal of statistical data on outputs from the Department and from local authorities. I highly recommend that as a practice that could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just want to emphasise the need for greater data on local authority outputs to be collated by the Department as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (12 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the presentation and for the information. There are three sets of questions. With respect to the homeless Supplementary Estimate, is all of the additional €60 million going to the Covid-related provisions, as the Minister outlined, or is there an opportunity for some of that funding to address some of the other specific issues that have arisen this year?...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to launch his new affordable housing plan. [35579/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to announce the detail of his shared equity loan scheme for approved housing bodies and private sector home purchases. [35580/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to issue the methodology for the housing needs demand assessment to local authorities as part of the development plan review process. [35581/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish his Department’s new rural housing planning guidelines. [35582/20]