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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last Thursday, I accused the Minister of wrongly having families in emergency accommodation or who are homeless removed from the March homeless report. I spent much of Friday and early today talking to senior officials and front-line staff in local authorities and voluntary sector organisations and I am more convinced now than I was last week that the vast majority of those families are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That response from the Minister is astounding. He seems to be claiming on the one hand that local authority owned or leased properties cannot be considered emergency accommodation, yet 63 units in Tallaght Cross, in my constituency, owned by a local authority are emergency accommodation and the families in that accommodation are included in the March figures. Likewise, hubs are leased by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is changing the definition of emergency accommodation. The families in Tallaght Cross are in emergency accommodation. They do not have a tenancy agreement and there are key workers, which the Minister's Department funds, to try to move them into permanent accommodation. The idea that because somebody is left languishing in emergency accommodation for two years the Minister is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the water abstraction licensing regime legislation as required by the water framework directive. [19785/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the appointment of an expert group to review the legislation underpinning the Traveller accommodation programmes. [19787/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes priced between €170,000 and €280,000 that will be delivered under the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF. [19786/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of work to reverse the EUROSTAT decision to redesignate approved housing bodies as part of the Government sector. [19784/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to spend the €25 million fund for affordable housing announced in budget 2018. [19783/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he plans to commence the review of the legal protection offered to complainants in sexual assault cases announced in April 2018; and if an opportunity for persons and families affected by sexual assault and rape to provide an input into the review will be ensured. [19627/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address issues (details supplied) regarding the miscategorisation of persons in local authority homeless figures. [19742/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Pages 26 and 27 of the programme for Government contain a series of commitments to tackle the homelessness crisis. Obviously having accurate data for the numbers of people in emergency accommodation is vital to track the progress or otherwise of these commitments. On Monday the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government alleged that local authorities had wrongly included 600 people...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a temporary basis.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is disgraceful. The Minister is deliberately misleading the House.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is doing a disservice-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is shocking.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shame on the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (3 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will continue to publish monthly homeless figures; and his plans to amend this to quarterly or other less frequent publications. [19459/18]

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: First Stage (2 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: First Stage (2 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 to give students living in student specific accommodation under license the full protections of the Residential Tenancies Acts, including access to the Residential Tenancies Board and inclusion in the rent...