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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (11 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has current applications with the European Commission's European Globalisation Fund; and if he is considering new applications in the immediate future. [43096/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Visiting Committees (11 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will publish the 2016 visiting committees reports on Irish prisons. [43085/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Members (11 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to deal with issues that arise from section 18(4)(a) of the Local Government Act 2001 regarding councillors taking maternity leave from their elected role; his further plans to review this legislation in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43097/17]

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputies Cowen and Casey for bringing this important Bill to the House today. Sinn Féin fully supports the intention behind the Bill. Whenever we have conversations about vacant properties many of us express a certain degree of frustration. We have somewhere between 90,000 and 189,000 vacant residential units across the State and, as Deputy Cowen rightly pointed out, that does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (4 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for taking the time to answer our questions. All of the committee members want to see a mandatory register. The issue is whether the legislation provides the most robust system we can get. Much of this has to do with the quality of the enforcement element of it. I have a couple of questions for all of the witnesses. We have had the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (4 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is more related to the operation of the register rather than legal remedies. For example, if there is a chain of responsibility in the delivery of the product, for example, a house, and if, having bought a house, I discover something was not done correctly and therefore somebody is guilty of misconduct or negligence and should be removed from the register, the way the system is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (4 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the register becomes mandatory, it will expand significantly in scale, particularly when one takes small and medium-sized contractors and building companies into consideration.

Topical Issue Debate: Referendum in Catalonia (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State's response was disappointing. He used the phrase "all relevant players ... move ... from confrontation." There has been no confrontation by the Catalan Government or people. If one watches all of the media coverage, what one will see is people trying to assert their rights peacefully and in a dignified way. Confrontation is certainly not how I would describe it as....

Topical Issue Debate: Referendum in Catalonia (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was in Barcelona and Catalonia over the weekend as a guest of the Catalan Government and was accredited by its electoral commission, participating in a delegation of approximately 40 members of European countries' parliaments observing the election. I witnessed first-hand many disturbing scenes that we saw on the news over the weekend and spoke to many people who had been hit with plastic...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Delaying of the work of the committee-----

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last November the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016 was passed in the Dáil without dissent and in May considered by the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government at pre-legislative scrutiny stage. We have since been unable to progress it because the Minister responsible has not brought forward the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the right project this time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 289. To ask the Minister for Health if the medicinal cannabis compassionate access programme to be launched soon will allow consultants to prescribe cannabis oil with THC content; and if the scheme will allow a consultant to determine the level of THC content of the oil based on the medical needs of the person in question. [41243/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 315. To ask the Minister for Health the reason lidocaine pain relief patches have been removed from the list of medicines available under the medical card; when this decision was taken; the evidence used to support this decision; the number of persons affected by this decision; the expected savings arising from this decision; and if the decision can be reconsidered for persons in view of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four straightforward questions. The last time we met I raised the need for independent inspections of emergency accommodation. Since then the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, DRHE, has completed its work on the national quality standard framework and have presented that work to the Department along with a proposal for the establishment of a national equality standards office which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am talking about the two reports on the cost of construction; one which was done in-house by the Department, and the other which is looking at international comparisons, as I understand it, by the housing agency.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41056/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41057/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of SCHEP tenancies in which properties are owned by private landlords; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41058/17]