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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (7 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a situation regarding driving licences (details supplied) will be reviewed. [6278/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (7 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated for, and drawn down by, all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in 2017, in tabular form. [6169/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (7 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the proposed merger and relocation of the State agencies (details supplied) to his Department. [6256/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the framework document on housing for older persons currently being developed by his Department; the number of officials working on this paper; the number of times this working group has met; the third party stakeholders consulted by the group as part of its work; and when the framework document will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (6 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legal position for homeowners who wish to sell their homes and who have not paid the domestic water charge, in view of the abolition of domestic water charges in 2017. [5745/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (1 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that CIÉ makes funding available to the 10,000 active members of its two pension schemes for independent legal advice; his further plans to initiate an independent investigation into the governance of the two CIÉ pension schemes; and his plans to ensure that CIÉ answers all outstanding questions asked...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Voluntary Sector (1 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or officials in his Department have played a part or have attempted to interfere, limit or prevent voluntary sector organisations funded by his Department from engaging in advocacy work on behalf of their service users; if he or his officials would seek to or have sought to prevent voluntary sector organisations funded...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of order, if I want to call a vote on the Bill before it passes is this the point at which I do it?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We heard the Minister of State.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of order-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that the only way to do it?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 94: In page 53, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 7 (requests to Board after consultation meeting has been held) of Act of 2016 27.Section 7(3) of the Act of 2016 is repealed.”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for having to step out there but I will check the transcript for what I missed later. I will re-emphasise, and am sure that everybody else said this at the start of their comments, that those of us who are sympathetic to this legislation do not in any way want to compromise fire safety or building standards. These sessions are very useful because they allow us to clarify and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Skehan for attending. I will make a couple of initial comments. I am a strong defender of free speech. People have a right to express their opinions and I would not try to curtail that. Likewise, the rest of us have a right to respond to those publicly. People in public bodies should express their views even when they do not necessarily coincide with the views of politicians...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me respond to that. This is very important and in some senses I am even more concerned now than I was at the start. Again I will be as measured as I can be. Third-party accounts of very complex family situations are not evidence. I am not disputing that the person who sent Mr. Skehan that may believe that. However, that is not evidence of people gaming the system. That is somebody's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of clarification. When somebody is in homeless accommodation, emergency offers of accommodation are not made on the same basis, so that very often somebody will be offered accommodation not in their area of preference but so far away from their area of preference and family support networks that it is not an appropriate offer. That is an important distinction to make....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is one very small point. Mr. Skehan is absolutely correct, the report dates from 2016 and the logic of the report was the dramatic rise in the increase in the number of families presenting as homeless. What he did not mention, but I am sure it was an oversight, was that this was also the period when we had a dramatic increase in the number of landlords increasing rents, but before we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a supplementary question but if you want to go ahead Chairman I will come in after you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, I will just throw them in quickly here. Data accuracy is one of the things we talk about a lot. The recently announced Government housing needs assessment figures of 80,000 plus is for June or July of last year. I have subsequent figures from every local authority under FOI of the same net need figures from September and they are 99,000. I would not get too excited that there has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would also say we have 32,000 households on the housing assistance payment, HAP, which is a short-term response to their particular housing situation. We have 20,000 households on the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. One could argue that we have a gross housing need of approximately 130,000. The reason I say that is because all of us in here represent all of those people in our...