Results 12,801-12,820 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not by fiddling figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason 428 fewer real social houses, that is, units owned by local authorities and approved housing bodies, were delivered in 2018 than were delivered in 2017 and his views on whether this drop indicates a problem with the speed and scale of real social housing delivery, particularly within the local authority sector....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is very fond of quoting the report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness and its key recommendation for the State to deliver 10,000 additional real social houses every year over five years. That report defines real social houses as units owned by local authorities or approved housing bodies. The real social housing output last year was around 6,297 units. These are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Part of the problem is, precisely as the Minister says, an increasing reliance on leased properties instead of real social housing. The reason I use the phrase "real social housing" is because it was used in the unanimously endorsed report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness. The Minister claims to be meeting the committee's recommendation when the figures very clearly show that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: First, I never called for the Government to acquire fewer units for local authorities. What I wanted it to do was to continue to acquire and to increase building. I keep coming back to the report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness because that cross-party report set out the minimum that this House believed the Government needed to do to tackle the social housing crisis. Again, we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the councils that miscategorised persons in monthly homeless reports; the months on which persons were wrongly included; the number of persons in each of these months in this regard; when the persons were removed; the reason his Department did not catch this earlier; the adjusted figures for each month in which there was a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last Thursday, I accused the Minister of wrongly having families in emergency accommodation or who are homeless removed from the March homeless report. I spent much of Friday and early today talking to senior officials and front-line staff in local authorities and voluntary sector organisations and I am more convinced now than I was last week that the vast majority of those families are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That response from the Minister is astounding. He seems to be claiming on the one hand that local authority owned or leased properties cannot be considered emergency accommodation, yet 63 units in Tallaght Cross, in my constituency, owned by a local authority are emergency accommodation and the families in that accommodation are included in the March figures. Likewise, hubs are leased by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is changing the definition of emergency accommodation. The families in Tallaght Cross are in emergency accommodation. They do not have a tenancy agreement and there are key workers, which the Minister's Department funds, to try to move them into permanent accommodation. The idea that because somebody is left languishing in emergency accommodation for two years the Minister is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the water abstraction licensing regime legislation as required by the water framework directive. [19785/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the appointment of an expert group to review the legislation underpinning the Traveller accommodation programmes. [19787/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes priced between €170,000 and €280,000 that will be delivered under the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF. [19786/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of work to reverse the EUROSTAT decision to redesignate approved housing bodies as part of the Government sector. [19784/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to spend the €25 million fund for affordable housing announced in budget 2018. [19783/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he plans to commence the review of the legal protection offered to complainants in sexual assault cases announced in April 2018; and if an opportunity for persons and families affected by sexual assault and rape to provide an input into the review will be ensured. [19627/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address issues (details supplied) regarding the miscategorisation of persons in local authority homeless figures. [19742/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Pages 26 and 27 of the programme for Government contain a series of commitments to tackle the homelessness crisis. Obviously having accurate data for the numbers of people in emergency accommodation is vital to track the progress or otherwise of these commitments. On Monday the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government alleged that local authorities had wrongly included 600 people...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a temporary basis.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is disgraceful. The Minister is deliberately misleading the House.