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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...

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (27 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister confirm that there are now more families living in hotel accommodation than when he took office? I understand there were over 800 at the start of last year but that figure dropped to approximately 640 before the Minister took office. He has stated there are now over 700 such families. Will he commit to providing figures for the total length of time families spend in...

Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is precisely why we have so many living in emergency accommodation. In 2014 the credit unions stated they wanted to invest in social housing. In 2016 their representatives appeared before the Oireachtas housing and homelessness committee to plead with us to put pressure on the Government to assist in that regard. In 2017 the Central Bank finally got around to approving credit union...

Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is all very interesting, but I already knew the information on approved housing bodies and credit unions and it was not the question I asked. It was what the Minister was actually doing. Now that approval has been given by the Central Bank, will the Minister of State and the Department bring all of the players around the table to ensure, in as speedy a fashion as possible, that the...

Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the commitment made on page 53 of Rebuilding Ireland to create a special purpose vehicle involving investors including the credit union movement to fund the delivery of social and affordable homes by the approved body sector. [9768/18]