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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (21 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the technical specifications for the proposed new modular build hub clusters will not meet BCAR standards; the areas the technical specifications for these proposed modular build hubs will be allowed to deviate from building regulations and standards; and the rationale for these permissible deviations. [48644/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies for being late. In some sense, none of us knows what will happen. We could spend a great deal of time speculating but our conversation - as with NERI and the ESRI last week - is, accepting the fact that we do not know and considering what contingency plans can be put in place so that if X happens, B can be the response, and if Y happens, C can be the response. In particular, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This might be a question for the Minister rather than the officials. I accept that, for example, the capital construction targets are set through to 2021 and the leased and private sector subsidised are set to 2021. Therefore, we know their quantum. Were things to become more difficult, has there been discussion on whether there can be a shift between the two? Let us say 89,000 private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the delegates for their presentations and submissions. Accepting the fact that we do not know how things are going to pan out and that we could spend a large amount of time in speculating, the real issue is that there are potential negatives. Like the ESRI and the Nevin Economic Research Institute, Dr. Duffy has, rightly, pointed to the potential impact on costs, including the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: How does the overall level of investment in infrastructure in Australia, as a percentage of GDP, compare with ours? Is it the case that Australia has a more efficient mechanism for delivery or does it invest more, or a comparable amount?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the answers. In response to Mr. Phillips, my question was not so much about the quality of PII's relationship with the Department, because we would hope it is the way he described, as it should be with all external bodies, it was more specifically about whether in those conversations there had been a discussion of the contingency plans to try to deal with some of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a brief follow-on question, and it is more to do with the economics of land. In looking at land markets, for example, in European or OECD countries over the past 30, 40 or 50 years, the less taxes we placed on land and the less restrictive the markets in land, the greater the price rises and price volatility. It seems we have forgotten that part of the reason we have, for example,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services Provision (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 573. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults discharged from Tusla funded aftercare into homelessness each year since the agency was established; and the supports in place to prevent the discharge of young adults from Tusla funded aftercare into homelessness. [47706/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services Provision (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 574. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) has been informed that their Tusla funded aftercare placement will end on 16 November 2018; and the steps Tusla will take to prevent them from being discharged into homelessness. [47707/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Brexit Issues (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contingency plans in place to deal with the impact of Brexit on the housing crisis; the number of meetings held by his officials in the past 12 months to prepare for this issue; and the number of meetings between staff of his Department, other Departments, State agencies and other organisations during the past 12 months...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications by local authority; the number of such loans approved by each local authority; and the number of loans drawn down by each local authority by quarter in 2018, in tabular form. [47800/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (20 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm claims (details supplied) published on his Department's website; and the data on which these claims are based. [48171/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (15 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority loans paid out in quarter 3 of 2018 by local authority; and the number of such loans paid out to date in 2018, by local authority in tabular form. [47510/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (14 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional measures that can be put in place on a permanent basis to ensure that all persons sleeping rough or at risk of sleeping rough have access to safe, secure, accessible and appropriate emergency accommodation in view of the recent tragic deaths on streets of persons engaged with homeless services. [47335/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (14 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, the media widely reported two deaths this month of individuals who were accessing homelessness services and had a history of sleeping rough. We do not know the full details of the deaths and it would be wrong for any of us in the House to try to politicise it. Is this a matter of concern? Does the Minister feel there might be gaps in our emergency response to rough...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (14 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. As he knows, it is four years since the tragic death of Mr. Jonathan Corry, a young rough sleeper, on the streets just outside this building. What became clear from that case is that even when beds are available in the emergency accommodation system on a given night, and even when local authority or voluntary sector staff engage with rough sleepers,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (14 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Eileen Gleeson, the director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, came before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government and told us she was doing a study of mortality among rough sleepers. Unfortunately, the study will stop at approximately 2015 so we will not get more recent data. She said there were not enough step-down beds for rough sleepers, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: My questions follow on from Deputy Boyd Barrett's. I thank the delegations for their presentations and acknowledge the very useful work the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland does in its cost of construction reports which are very valuable. While we have the Department's reports, it says something that it was the SCSI that produced the reports on houses and apartments well before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise but I have to be in the Chamber at 10.30 a.m., so if there is not time to get all of the answers I will read them in the Official Report. Ms Bryce said there might be some efficiencies by the time we get to bundle 3. Does she have any idea what those efficiencies are? I presume by efficiencies she means a reduction in timeline. I do not think it is fair to say that there...