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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the report on the costings of pay equality as called for in an amendment to section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 will be published; and the timeframe for implementing the recommendations of the report. [11948/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the report on the costings of pay equality as called for in an amendment to section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 will be published; and the timeframe for implementing the recommendations of the report. [11949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 901. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual funding to each of the 124 school completion programme clusters in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to date in 2018; the per capita funding figure for each cluster for each year; the criteria used in determining the funding level for each cluster; the information gathered by her Department to determine the level of need in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: DEIS Scheme (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 902. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the percentage of pupils in non-DEIS schools that have come from DEIS feeder schools will be considered when changes or future funding allocations to the schools completion programme are being made; if issues such as rent supplement and housing assistance dependency in private housing estates will be taken into account; the location...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 903. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reduce the number of co-ordinators allocated to the schools completion programme; if so, the number; and the way in which these coordinators will be configured across the existing 124 school completion programmes. [12906/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1020. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 717 of 27 February 2018, the estimated cost to the Exchequer in a full financial year of increasing the representational allowance for local councillors (details supplied). [11976/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1022. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Partnership Government commitments in respect of local government reform (details supplied); if he will further report on the possible devolution of new powers to local authorities and the establishment of town and borough councils. [12003/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1033. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if SI 679/2011 - Housing (Tenant Purchase of Apartments) Regulations 2011 is still active and available to local authorities and council tenants to avail of; and if he will examine a series of matters relating to same (details supplied). [12245/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We need legislation that is humane, that is compassionate and that respects women's health and women's choices. Crucially, we need legislation that trusts women and that is why I am supporting what the Government is doing today.

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday thousands of people marched through the streets of Dublin to mark International Women's Day. Men and women, young and old, of all political persuasions and none, were represented. They were united in a single belief, which is that the time has come to trust women. For decades, as other speakers have outlined, this State has failed women. It has failed to ensure that they have...

Diaspora Issues: Statements (8 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the publication of the report and the Minister of State's speech here today. I will focus on one issue, namely driving licences and the amended requirements for returning emigrants. Over the past year, I have been contacted by quite a number of constituents. These are people who took their first driving tests and got their first driving licence in Ireland. They would have driven...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State and Mr. O'Connor for their presentations. I have a couple of comments and specific questions. First, I welcome the report. It is an important publication. There is not necessarily much new information in it in terms of what we know anecdotally from our own experience, but I welcome that it lays out clearly and unequivocally the problems that the Traveller...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important to note that the 45% underspend last year compares with an overspend in the general social housing budget allocation. In fact, the Department sought an additional €100 million in the Estimates last year because it was ahead of schedule with the albeit very modest social housing targets. There is an issue here of political leadership. That also applies to us. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. The committee members fully understand the witnesses frustrations that they are back here again talking about the same stuff that they were talking to the committee about in the Dáil Committee on Housing and Homelessness two years ago and all the previous occasions. The committee also understands, and maybe "suspicion" is not the right word,...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approved housing bodies are reclassified by Eurostat; the level of new departmental oversight this reclassification will lead to; and if his Department will have oversight over issues such as funding and staffing approval. [10952/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Leakages (7 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister although we already got most of the information he gave us from Irish Water by email in the past few hours. The core issue is that the Government knows that in Dublin, for example, there is limited excess capacity in the system. The questions most Deputies have asked have not been answered. Why was more notice not given to households in the areas at most risk? What...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Leakages (7 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I pay tribute to the water services staff who, as we are all aware and as we speak, are out working exceptionally hard to bring the water system back into proper order. I also want to say at the outset that I fully understand the scale of the weather event and the impact that would always have had on the water system. Today, as it stands, 1.2 million people in the greater Dublin area are...

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I acknowledge the significant additional work of the staff of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the local authorities, homeless charities, including the Peter McVerry Trust and Focus Ireland, as well as grassroots campaigners such as Inner City Helping Homeless over the past number of days. There is no doubt that as a result of that...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: When we raised this with the Minister last year he said he would be sympathetic to the proposal that this should be fast-tracked if possible. He went on to say that he had been seeking in the previous two years to prioritise children with special educational needs. I urge the Minister to visit the school. I accept there are huge demands on the Minister's time and on the limited resources...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last September, myself, Deputy Curran and a number of other Deputies raised the issue of the urgent need for a new school building for Scoil Mochua in Clondalkin, a special needs school for children with multiple and severe disabilities. One of the significant things about that Topical Issue was we were not coming as a group of constituency Members lobbying for our own constituency. This...