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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (17 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the status of the establishment of the expert group on the Traveller accommodation programmes. [16458/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (17 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the criteria used by his Department and local authorities to determine if applicants for the local infrastructure housing activation fund required the funding from a project activation point of view; and if some of the projects awarded funding in the final 30 contracts would have proceeded in a similar timeframe...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is crazy. We are way beyond that.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On page 4 of the programme for Government, there is a commitment to end the homelessness crisis. As we heard earlier, almost 10,000 people are recorded as homeless, including 3,755 children. Clearly, the Government is not doing enough to prevent people becoming homeless. In Britain, new legislation comes into force next week to place an obligation on local authorities to step in and assist...

European Union Directives: Motion (28 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I add my support to that of committee colleagues, Deputies Maria Bailey and Barry Cowen, in respect of this issue. For those Members who were not part of the committee's deliberations, it is important to be very clear about the purpose of the revised directive. It is about improving the quality of drinking water and increasing access to good-quality drinking water in member states where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are a very relaxed committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ask the umpire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the delegates for the presentations and again acknowledge the work of both Deputy Sean Sherlock and Senator Grace O'Sullivan. If the departmental officials take anything from this meeting it is that there is a very strong consensus in the committee that we want to see something being done in a timely fashion. One of the values of engaging in pre-legislative scrutiny is that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a supplementary question on the European Commission. Five or six EU member states that have banned microplastics to date, including those that have introduced a ban from the start of this year. Has the European Commission given any negative response to those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Quite a long pause.

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have some sympathy for the Minister of State who is simply reading out the answer he has been given by the officials. However, I hope he will express our disappointment to the Minister who is responsible for the response because it does not deal with the concerns we are raising, in particular in terms of the inadequacy of the two other schools which have been proposed either due to...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I add my voice to the calls for a stand-alone secondary school in Citywest and Saggart. I have no doubt the Minister of State will tell us in his answer that, when making decisions, the Department analyses all the relevant demographic data, has regard to the school planning areas and uses its geographical information system. The problem with all the data sources is that they do not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. My understanding is the building is not new but a conversion of an existing building. We had all seen works happening but they related to a conversion. It came to our attention in the first instance because housing applicants in South Dublin County Council's list wanted to take up regular tenancies and applied for the housing assistance payment, HAP. When they applied for that, South...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: In terms of the sequence of events, for Deputy Casey's information, a planning application was submitted and approved for 27 units in 2016. A revised planning application was submitted in 2017 to amend that to 48 units. That application was rejected and appealed to An Bord Pleanála but it appears that during the period of time the appeal has taken, which was approximately six months,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a general comment. When the officials appeared before the joint committee earlier to discuss the review of rates legislation, they and we experienced some frustration because the Valuation Office has come under a different Department and legislative code. It would be a good idea, once the Valuation Office has settled into its new home, as it were, if the relevant officials were to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is aware of a serious problem regarding Larkfield House where 44 families have been placed in a difficult position as a result of a decision by a developer to build and tenant the property without planning permission and proper building certification. Last week, An Bord Pleanála made its determination that the refusal of the planning permission was upheld and therefore...

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be helpful, we had a detailed presentation by Irish Water, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the Environmental Protection Agency last week and we agreed unanimously that we would consider the report that was in front of us today. I have no difficulty with the debate or the Business Committee re-examining the issue. I think when people see what the committee is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The first table in programme C shows a deficit of €240 million this year over last year. Is it the case that the local authorities are getting this funding in some other way or is it that there were services that were being funded with the €240 million last year that are no longer being provided? If this €240 million is not a cut in funding to local government services,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was funding provided to the local authorities in 2017 which they then paid on to Irish Water.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: So this deficit does not represent a reduction in the funding to local authorities from the local government fund.