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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Kelly for the information. Two questions were not answered - one concerning the Garda stations and the other on whether there has been engagement with Tusla about the supports for families outside of term time. I do not doubt for a second that Ms Hurley genuinely believes when she says local authorities are able to meet the needs of families and place them in emergency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The experience of the hub programme to date has not seen a reduction in the number of families entering the hotels. Is Ms Hurley confident that if there is a further expansion of the hub programme, we are not going to see an expansion of the hubs and the same or an increased level of families in hotels as well? That has certainly been the pattern to date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: My understanding - this is an important point that relates to the Bill - is that if the intake team does not have accommodation for a family with children by a certain time in the evening, for child protection reasons, it will refer them to a Garda station. At that point, a decision is being made that there are no emergency beds. I am confused because everybody is denying there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That change has been effective from the start of October.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does it mean that no family will be referred to a Garda station, other than where there is a question mark over their identity or citizenship status? Is that what Mr. Kelly is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the point about Tusla?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is important. One of the services that does stop is provision of a Leap card. For example, a family living in emergency accommodation in Swords whose children go to school in Clondalkin receive a Leap card but only during term time. There was a real problem during the summer. Naturally, during the summer the family in the example given would want to travel to Clondalkin to be with...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Report Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for that reply. In an ideal world, I would have liked to table these amendments to section 4, but because of the Ceann Comhairle's ruling, I was not able to do that. In some sense, placing them in this section of the Bill allows us to have the debate but also to go a step further. If I understand the Minster of State correctly, his indirect answer to Deputy...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Report Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1:In page 10, line 13, after “interest” to insert “including lower interest rates and longer maturities”. On Second Stage and again on Committee Stage we had a detailed discussion of whether Home Building Finance Ireland could be used in particular to target small and medium sized builders who are unable to access bank finance on the open...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (2 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure by his Department and-or the HSE on breastfeeding promotion campaigns in each year since 2011, in tabular form. [39610/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Promotion (2 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expenditure on advertising Irish dairy products outside the EU in each year since 2011. [39609/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Exports Data (2 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the exports per country of Irish powdered milk in each year since 2011, in tabular form. [39608/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (2 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of local infrastucture housing activation fund, LIHAF, contracts in circumstances in which the land and planning permission are being sold to a third party that was not party to the original LIHAF contract with the local authority. [39762/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (2 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies active on 1 September 2018, by local authority area. [39992/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The homeless figures are on the website but the report on the reclassification is not. I am not going to ask any questions about that because I have not read the report. I ask that the Minister gives the committee a commitment that when we have had time to read and digest that report he will come back to us to deal with that issue specifically, because he knows that we are very concerned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that, will the Minister give us the commitment that he will appear before the committee to talk to us when we have had time to absorb the report? It is important to us in committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the answers he gave to the previous questions, some of which were interesting. I have a few follow-up questions. The homelessness figures for this month and last month are now on the web and I have had two quick reads of the reclassification report. My questions are factual and we will come back to the substance of this at a later committee meeting. There has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister would accept that this is very similar to Tallaght Cross. In Tallaght Cross people have an apartment and a key. They have a nine-month, 12-month or 18-month licence agreement. There are 65 of those units. I am not looking to have a political row. I am trying to understand the rationale.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not having an argument with the Minister about that. This is quite important. My question is purely factual so I can understand the logic of the report. Tallaght Cross contains 65 units that were purchased from a debtor to the National Asset Management Agency NAMA by South Dublin County Council. South Dublin County Council took a decision to use them as emergency accommodation. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Have those living in the Tallaght Cross units been recategorised out of emergency accommodation as part of the figure of 741?