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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Health and Safety Regulations (14 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Question No. 520 of 14 November 2017, if he will consider amending section 239 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to include bike parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53537/17]

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: A couple of minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Some of what I have to say ties in with the comments of other members. Deputy Cassells is correct that we have one of the most centralised systems of government and weakest forms of local government in Europe. It is a tragedy that in the history of the State we have probably produced more commissions and reports on local government reform than anything else. Political parties are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. That is a period I would support. We need to be realistic in terms of costs. The commission needs to consider what costs would arise from its proposals, which need not necessarily constitute new burdens on the Exchequer. If one is devolving power from existing statutory bodies, one can devolve the powers, staff and budgets with them. During yesterday's debate on the Electoral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to wait until after somebody else contributes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, the other speakers can go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak after them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If one thought that the Putting People First reforms were a good idea, then one would not support this Bill. Many of us are supporting this Bill because we did not support those reforms in the first instance. When something is not functioning well, we have a terrible habit in this State of scrapping it and devolving the powers upwards. Nobody was saying during the debate we had earlier,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities can include charges for maintenance such as boiler servicing within the overall calculation of differential rent; and if so, the legislation under which such additional charges are permitted. [53398/17]

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is something a little incongruous about our debating and voting on this legislation in so far as none of us, as elected politicians, can claim complete objectivity when it comes to the redrawing of constituencies. That is not to take away from the legitimacy of the points raised by colleagues. We absolutely have a right to debate the legislation underpinning the establishment of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is simply not true.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: He did but the Minister did not answer the question.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which Ireland's 15th report on the implementation of the European Social Charter for the period 2013 to 2016 was submitted to the European Committee of Social Rights; and if she will publish that report on her Department's website. [53203/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to conduct a review or plans revisions to the local government boundaries or distribution of seats within existing boundaries in advance of the 2019 local government elections. [52704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 520 of 5 December 2017, the number of housing first tenancies in existence prior to the launch of Rebuilding Ireland in July 2016; and the number of new housing first tenancies commenced since July 2016 to date in 2017. [53001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Repossessions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of shared ownership loans that have resulted in repossession and the owner losing his or her home in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [53201/17]

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said on the previous occasion Deputy Smith raised this matter, a very simple solution would be to allow local authorities to disregard family income supplement when conducting the means test for social housing. That is already the case in respect of carer's allowance. In my constituency, a working family were €500 a year over the social housing income threshold and were...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In response to a freedom of information request, I received the net social housing need waiting list for all local authorities as of 1 September and the figure was 99,555 households. The Department uses a different methodology for the housing needs assessment it is about to publish, as it did last year, so it is important to outline to the House what is the methodology. The Department is...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they are wrong we are right to question them.