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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is a relatively short timeframe months rather than years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: To pick up on Deputy Barry's question, the witnesses caught the tail end of the political scientists' presentation and they know them all well. My question is not about the consultations and whether we get an electoral commission; it is about the meantime as we wait for those. Is the Department, and this section in particular, considering whether to fund some form of electoral research this...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do not worry about it. I thank the Minister for the Bill's outline. Sinn Féin opposed the RPZs when they were introduced in 2016 because we believed that a 12.5% rent increase over three years for tenants who were already paying rents that were too high was unsustainable. We also argued that RPZs would create perverse incentives for landlords outside the RPZs to jack up rents even...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for increased current and capital investment in the provision of special autism units in schools in Clondalkin, Dublin 22 and Lucan, County Dublin to meet the significant level of need in those areas. [2644/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the gap between the provision of and need for social needs assistants in classrooms in schools especially in Lucan, County Dublin, Clondalkin and Dublin 22; and his plans to increase investment in 2019 and 2020 to meet current need. [2643/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Building Energy Rating Compliance (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 521. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 16 January 2019, the percentage of new buildings that have an A2 energy rating as required by the nearly zero energy building standard requirements; the percentage of public buildings owned and leased by the State are fully compliant with the standard requirements as of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 588. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the accusation that her Department and Tusla are using an outdated methodology to calculate the adequacy or otherwise of provision of domestic violence refuge places and supports as reported in the media (details supplied). [2665/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Applications Data (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing applicants that have come onto local authority housing lists on an annual basis in each of the past three years; and if he will direct the Housing Agency to include these data in the summary of housing needs assessment in 2019 and all future years. [2670/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration is being given to the idea of a housing list passport as suggested in the Social Housing Strategy 2020 to allow persons to move from one local authority area to another for specified reasons (details supplied) without losing their time on the housing list. [2671/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the report into alleged planning malpractice in Donegal County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2672/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of casual vacancies relet by local authorities each year since 2014, in tabular form. [2754/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedure by which local authorities may amend their differential rent scheme; and if it is an executive or reserve function. [2821/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Energy Rating Compliance (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 16 January 2019, the percentage of new buildings that have an A2 energy rating as required by the nearly zero energy building standard requirements; the percentage of public buildings owned and leased by the State that are fully compliant with the standard requirements as of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown by each local authority and by year of the 250 homes brought back into use via the buy and renew scheme. [3089/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown by each local authority and by year of the 48 homes brought back into use and tenanted under the repair and lease scheme. [3090/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Energy Rating Compliance (16 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a progress report on the efforts to meet near zero energy building requirements in 2018; if all public buildings, whether owned or leased by the State, are now fully compliant with the relevant EU directive; if not, the level of compliance; when full compliance will be achieved; the measures implemented...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Building Control Management System (15 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are thousands of families who bought properties before 2014 that have substantial latent defects, including fire safety issues and water ingress. The State is partly responsible for this. The non-existent regulatory regime allowed unscrupulous builders, developers or architects to build those homes. We asked in the "Safe as Houses?" report by the Oireachtas committee for the Minister...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Every new home that is built is welcome. Any increase in supply is also to be welcomed. I think the Minister is guilty of presenting too rosy a picture. I would appreciate it if he could address two specific issues, the first of which is private housing output. One of the most worrying aspects of the recent report of the Housing Supply Coordination Taskforce for Dublin is the indication...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The quarter-on-quarter comparisons are a valuable way of looking at this issue, particularly because building is affected by the climate. That is one of the reasons the task force report makes such comparisons. It is a concern that the total level of construction in the city of Dublin, where housing need is greatest, is 50% lower than it was this time last year. I am not clear on why that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to increase the delivery of both social housing new builds and affordable private market homes for 2019 (details supplied). [1627/19]