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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Investigations (30 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to the ongoing investigation into complaints regarding irregularities in the administration of planning in County Donegal, the reason he will not permit the senior counsel undertaking the exercise to investigate the matters relating to the civil servants that advised on the discredited report put before...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Investigations (30 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to the ongoing investigation into complaints regarding irregularities in the administration of planning in County Donegal, the reason he will not permit the senior counsel undertaking the exercise to investigate the matters relating to the acting director of planning and senior planner in Donegal County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Investigations (30 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of all investigations into planning matters initiated by him or his ministerial predecessors under section 255 of the Planning and Development Acts since 2011; the current status of each investigation; the details of the findings made and actions taken in cases in which these investigations have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 391. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite increased personal assistant hours and transportation to school for a person (details supplied) in Lucan, County Dublin. [25285/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Consumer Protection (30 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 557. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the problem of television and home Internet companies deliberately preventing or making it difficult for persons to exit from their contracts, despite the contract term having expired; the State agency responsible for dealing with complaints on such matters; the legislation that...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 14. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the EU Commission's legal proceedings against the Government for the breach of the urban waste water treatment directive. [24807/17]

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In February, the European Commission initiated court proceedings against the Irish Government for breaches of the urban waste water treatment directive. Infringement proceedings have been ongoing since 2012. I am looking for an update from the Minister of State on the progress on the 38 agglomerations or urban areas that are currently in breach of EU law and what the Government will do to...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Interestingly, the primary reason the European Commission initiated the infringement proceedings was because when Fine Gael took office in 2011, it slashed the capital budget for wastewater treatment plans. Prior to that, particularly when John Gormley was Minister, the investment was between €200 million and €300 million on an annual basis. When Fine Gael took office with...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If John Gormley was able to sustain the level of funding in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, when the recession was at its deepest, there is simply no reason why Fine Gael, if it had chosen to continue that level of funding, could not have done so. My question has still not been answered. I want to know, year on year, from now to 2021, what the investment is. I knew the figure was €1.1...

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is a smart man. I thought he might know off the top of his head.

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to outline the position regarding the way in which he plans to uphold his commitment to end the use of hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation as emergency accommodation for persons by July 2017; and a timeframe for same. [24806/17]

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The first action of Pillar 1 on homelessness in rebuilding Ireland commits to ensuring that by mid-2017 hotels will be used only in limited circumstances for emergency accommodation for families. Pillar 1 commits to meeting housing needs through the housing assistance payment, housing allocations, a rapid build programme and acquisitions. Nowhere in the document does it state those...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State left out three sentences from the commitment in the answer. The document does not simply state that the Government will end the use of hotels by mid-2017. It lists the four types of housing the Government will provide to meet that objective. Nowhere among those four types of housing is there mention of moving people into other emergency accommodation. When I...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Any improvement in emergency accommodation for families will be welcomed. Again, I go back to the commitment in Rebuilding Ireland that by the middle of this year families that are in hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation will be moved into HAP housing, rapid-build and procured units. We will want to know, sooner rather than later, how many of those 800 or 900 families have gone into...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is for small projects and tiny buildings. That is just disingenuous.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be addressing that issue.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department and the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, have a difficulty with numbers. The Minister does not now how many people will sleep in emergency accommodation tonight nor how many new builds are under construction. There are not 10,000 social housing units in the pipeline. I have examined the figures very carefully. In my...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To summarise, the Minister's answer to my question is that he does not know, despite the fact that he has been working on the scheme for a year. A circular issued by the Department in August stated that a minimum of 40% of the homes to be delivered would be available at 10% less than the average market cost, though in Dún Laoghaire that would be no guarantee of affordability. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have read the circulars.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister should read his own departmental circulars. In the August circular, it stated that affordable homes would be delivered and that a minimum of 40% would be available at prices 10% below the average cost in the market. That suggests it was a target but the October circular states that it may not always be possible to deliver 40% of new homes under the LIHAF bids at prices 10%...