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Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We asked them for this information, but they would not give it to us.

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is why I am asking the Minister to ask the officials to give us this information. It is a simple request.

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will take that as a "Yes".

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which he calculated the figure of €14 million as recovered revenue if an excess charge for water was introduced; and if his Department has calculated the amount it would cost to administer such a scheme. [2137/17]

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In a report in The Sunday Timeson 4 January it was suggested the Minister had indicated in an interview that a charge for excess water usage would yield in the region of €14 million annually. Is the report accurate? If it is, on what basis did he derive that figure? If it is not accurate, has the Department done any calculations or had discussions with Irish Water about what a...

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not my conclusion. The report said the Minister suggested the figure was €14 million.

Other Questions: Housing Issues (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The kiss of death.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to contribute again, but I would not mind if the Minister used his two minutes afterwards.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures are not accurate. That is the problem. I will raise a further point, and I look forward to hearing the Minister's response on Home Sweet Home. For the second month in a row, a number of other Deputies and I were disappointed by the timing of the release of the figures. It is difficult not to draw the conclusion that, when the Minister releases figures on 30 December without...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not by me.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the November homelessness report published on 30 December 2016 does not include all those persons in State-funded emergency accommodation; if he will ensure that the figures will in future include those persons in domestic violence emergency accommodation funded by Tusla and those in the Department of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures the Minister's Department produces every month on homelessness are not accurate. They do not include adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence shelters or step-down accommodation. They do not include non-Irish nationals in emergency accommodation funded by the new communities unit. Crucially, they do not include those families trapped in direct provision having got...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a very disappointing response. The Minister is essentially admitting these figures are not accurate but he is not willing to change their method of collation. None of the three categories of people I talked about pertains to people in care. If a family is put out of its home as a result of domestic violence, it is put into a domestic violence emergency accommodation shelter. That...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Tánaiste knows, a cross-departmental working group is examining legislation to ensure the responsibilities of landlords under the Residential Tenancies Acts apply to banks, vulture funds and receivers when they repossess properties. There was disturbing news in the Irish Examinertoday that approximately 20,000 mortgage repossession cases that were adjourned will be back before...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Domestic Violence Policy (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the guidance that has been issued to local authorities with regard to the policy and procedural aspect of their housing role which will ensure effectiveness and consistency in local authority responses to victims of domestic violence; if he will ensure that local authorities are issued with guidelines on the way to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details and timeframe as to the way in which he plans to uphold his pledge to end the use of hotels and bed and breakfasts as emergency accommodation for families by the middle of 2017. [2141/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to seek more funding to purchase more units in view of the fact that banks (details supplied) have offered the State up to 1,000 vacant houses for purchase yet to date the Government has only provided money for the purchase of 200; the amount of funding; and the number of additional units. [2143/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, in view of recent confusion as to when the monthly homeless figures will be released, he will consider publishing the monthly homeless figures within two weeks of the end of the month in question; and if, in future, he will include adults and children in emergency domestic violence refuges funded by Tusla,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has a register of funds and persons that own the requisite levels of properties as to be potentially affected by the recent amendment of section 35A of the Residential Tenancy Act, the so called Tyrrelstown amendment; and the safeguards or deterrents in place to prevent such an entity transferring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations.