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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What we also need is for the Government to immediately introduce the affordable scheme it has been talking about. We are happy to work with it to ensure it has the right design. It needs to deliver homes, not at €320,000, but for families between €35,000 and €75,000 a year at genuinely affordable prices. That is somewhere between €170,000 and €280,000....

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was beginning to get worried there. There was so much the Minister said I was agreeing with, I thought something had changed radically.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us see if I can change that.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will start with some disagreements with the Minister. The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, started by stating that the broken housing system is now being fixed. The problem, of course, is the facts tell a very different story. The affordable housing crisis is, in fact, getting worse. House prices are rising, rents across the country are rising, home repossessions are increasing and...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not for the Dáil to get into the details of either scheme. Rather, this is a matter for the communities concerned and their local elected representatives and the councils. They are unique sites on which there is strong local community involvement. There is strong political consensus in both areas for the proposals we are putting forward. The Minister of State's reply is...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State knows we have been strongly critical of the land initiative model being used elsewhere in the city and country. This originated at a time when capital budgets were more constrained and local authorities were desperately trying to find some way to fund public housing. That is no longer the case and, according to the current senior Minister and his predecessor, money is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroom local authority new build apartments on the basis of costings submitted to his Department by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroomed local authority new build units on the basis of costings submitted by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all in costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit size. [21568/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of recipients of the housing assistance and homeless housing assistance payments by area and household income at the time of entry to the scheme at 12 and 24 months in the scheme as appropriate. [20922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the development of five year strategic plans by each housing and disability steering group. [21322/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of assessment of housing needs which were carried out with disabled persons in each local authority area since the publication of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016. [21323/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units of accommodation which have been provided for persons with disabilities since the publication of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016 based on assessment of housing needs carried out by each local authority. [21324/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability Strategy (15 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities which have undertaken awareness raising campaigns with private landlords and letting agents regarding renting to persons with disabilities as per action 1.3.2 of the national implementation framework of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011–2016. [21325/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (10 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a report (details supplied) on the local employment services will be released; if not, the reason therefor; and when it will be released. [20645/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Local Property Tax: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Councillor McGinley for the very detailed presentation and documentation supplied. I shall make a comment rather than put a question. There are occasions when something is so badly designed and so unfit for purpose that trying to tinker around the edges will not solve the fundamental problem. I am as convinced today as I was when this tax was first introduced that the LPT is not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Approved Housing Bodies (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged consultants, other outside bodies or persons to conduct research, provide advice or assistance on the issue of the recent EUROSTAT designation of approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20342/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Prosecutions (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if guidelines are in place with respect to prosecutions in court here for overseas offences; the type of official from the overseas jurisdiction that must testify that the offences are offences in their jurisdictions; the guidelines in this regard; and if none exist, when such guidelines will be put in place. [20399/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 600 persons which he claimed on 30 April 2018 in a Departmental press release had been miscategorised as homeless by local authorities that had tenancy agreements at the time of the alleged miscategorisation; and the number that were in short-term ad hoc accommodation arrangements provided by local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (9 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has engaged consultants, other outside bodies or persons to conduct research, provide advice or assistance on the issue of the recent EUROSTAT designation of approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20343/18]

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the information of the Minister, the political situation in Dublin City Council has moved on from that original land initiative decision. A majority of councillors have supported a motion of the housing strategic policy committee to request that this project is taken out of the land initiative for the purposes of the funding model and that the Department fully funds it through Exchequer...