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Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State responsible knows, it has been one year since the publication of the review of funding for Traveller specific accommodation and the implementation of Traveller accommodation programmes. I acknowledge the very significant amount of work the Minister of State has been doing since the publication of the review to try to establish the expert group to work out how to...

Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. One of the startling figures from the report published last year, a report commissioned by the Department and the Housing Agency, was that, as the Traveller accommodation programmes progressed from 2000 to 2018, the incidence in meeting their targets fell. From 2000 to 2004, they hit about 90% of their targets. In the period from 2014 to 2018,...

Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I urge all Members of the House, including the Minister of State, to read the report of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission on inequality and discrimination in the housing system which was published this week. It confirms again, as did the Department's own report commissioned last year, that there is systemic discrimination against Travellers in the housing system. There is also...

Other Questions: Election Management System (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Go on Bernard.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister brings proposals to the committee we will work constructively with him on them. We have been told, for example, that 550 affordable homes would be delivered in the Poolbeg strategic development zone. The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government was helpful in assisting Dublin City Council and councillors in the community in getting that target. However, I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of cost rental and affordable purchase housing schemes. [26825/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This question relates to affordable housing. At budget 2018 last October, we were told that a cost rental pilot project would be delivered this year and €25 million would be made available for Ó Cualann-type affordable home schemes delivered through local authorities. We were also told that €200 million for the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The short answer to my question is that not a single unit will be delivered this year for affordable rental or affordable purchase under any Government scheme. While I welcome the commitment with regard to St. Michael's estate, the cost rental pilot has been in the pipeline since Deputy Alan Kelly was Minister. Not only has the pilot in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown not been delivered, but we...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a social and affordable public housing scheme will be publicly funded at locations (details supplied). [26815/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether those who bought their homes at the height of the boom and later discovered significant latent defects should be left to pay the cost of remediation. [26817/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the quality standards and inspection regime for all emergency accommodation. [26816/18]

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I warmly welcome the motion, which Sinn Féin enthusiastically supports. While I thank the Minister of State for attending, it is disappointing that neither the Minister for Health or the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government were available given the importance of the issue. Perhaps one or other of them might be in the House to wrap up the debate. I echo the comments...

Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Direct Provision Independent Inspection Bill 2018: First Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health Act 2007 to grant the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) the power to inspect all emergency homeless accommodation funded by the Department of Housing, Planning and Community and Local Government. The Act also grants HIQA the power to inspect direct provision centres funded by the Reception and...

Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Direct Provision Independent Inspection Bill 2018: First Stage (19 Jun 2018)

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 Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part 8 local authority social housing units that have been built in counties Longford and Westmeath in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [26348/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Short-Term Letting (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding plans to regulate the short-term letting sector. [26526/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to secure the reclassification of approved housing bodies, AHBs, as non-Government sector; the details of all meetings held with the AHB sector; the details of all meetings with the Department of Finance; his plans to reverse the recent EUROSTAT reclassification of the AHB sector; and if it is policy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the data working group and its plans to produce an agreed methodology for counting new home construction. [26528/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of social housing units delivered in 2017 by schemes (details supplied) in tabular form. [26669/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital allocation for 2018 for schemes (details supplied) in tabular form. [26670/18]