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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts Data (26 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1728. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all security and contract cleaning companies that have obtained contracts from his Department and agencies under the aegis of his Department under public procurement rules are paying the legal Employment Regulation Order (ERO) hourly rate to their security and contract cleaning employees; the steps he has taken to confirm full compliance...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he expects the target of taking all homeless families with children out of hotels except in exceptional circumstances to be met; the indicative length of time such families are expected to stay in family hubs; the arrangements made for children to get to school, after-school programmes and so on while they are...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: My question is in a couple of parts. First, when does the Minister expect the target, which has not yet been met, to take families out of hotels to be met? Second, how long does he expect families in hubs will be there? I also ask him about arrangements for children getting to school and other activities.

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister said people were advised of pathways but will he follow up to ensure that those pathways deliver and that we do not find families still in hotels by the end of the summer? I wish to concentrate on the hubs. Deputy Ó Broin referred earlier to the report yesterday from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in which it specifically recommends that families should...

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am still concerned. The Minister said particular arrangements are needed for particular families that have particular difficulties but I want to ensure that he will track this and that these families will not still be in hotels when we come back here in the autumn. He said there are exceptional circumstances but leaving a family for a very long period, no matter what the exceptional...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans with regard to developing and publishing a vacant homes strategy; the date on which he expects to publish the strategy; the elements he will progress in advance of publication; his views on the disappointing take up of the repair and leasing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33629/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Last week, the Minister told us that the vacant homes strategy was being deferred. We had been expecting it before the summer break although it was actually due at the end of March. He said it was being deferred because there were certain measures he wanted to introduce. I gather some of them may be budgetary. He also said there were some elements he could progress in advance of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I welcome the fact that the Minister is meeting with the local authorities next week and hope that he will impress upon them the importance of proactively finding out why there are so many vacant properties around the country. I referred before and will refer again to the Peter McVerry Trust's specific proposal about having vacant homes officers in each local authority, whose role would be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Again, I appreciate that the Minister is meeting the local authorities next week. Surely, a year after Rebuilding Ireland, they have some handle on exactly what is going on in each local authority area. It should not be too difficult, particularly in the cities where we have the biggest demand for housing. Has the Minister any sense of what might be available and why they are being left...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I suggest that the Minister also engages with the voluntary housing sector. Those groups will tell us that there are difficulties with the repair and leasing scheme and that some of the schemes that are in place are unduly cumbersome and not straightforward. Even when they identify homes that are available, they are having difficulty transferring them to their stock. I do not know if the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 8 o’clock Deputy Ryan's point about the Aarhus Convention is well made, and it would be important to check the legal elements of all of this. This also brings me back to the point I made when I spoke earlier about what "substantial" means. The Minister is describing something that is nearly complete, but I think the description of something as "substantial" is open to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: We will also support this Bill on the basis that it is a necessary step. I commend Deputy Casey and colleagues on noticing it and it is a good thing they did so before the summer recess or there might have been real problems. I assume it will pass through both Houses of the Oireachtas before the summer break. I am concerned that we have to do this, and Deputy Ó Broin has reminded us...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of applications that have been received to date in 2017 under the revised mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33376/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: House Prices (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the direction he has given to local authorities to ensure that homes built for private sale on publicly owned land are sold at affordable prices; if he will consider introducing an appropriate national affordable housing scheme for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33379/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (13 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the next review of rent pressure zones will be carried out; if the general review of Rebuilding Ireland will include more substantial changes to the legislation which defined qualification as a rent pressure zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33378/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish the Chairman well in public, as I did in private, and welcome the Minister and her officials. I wish to ask a question about the ICT system and then go back to this year's system, following on from Deputy Neville's questions. I am a little concerned about the timescale that has just been delineated. It sounds to me that it is approximately 12 months if one adds the eight to ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: In respect of the new information and communications technology, ICT, scheme of course nobody wants to see another personnel, payroll and related systems, PPARS, and we all know the Department has to go through correct procedure and the committee supports that but it is important that people recognise this may well not be ready for the following September. If that is the case, will the one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to make a comment on what Ms Clarke said. It is a real tribute to foster parents that the 18 year olds in so many cases stay with the family despite probably very little support. The point Deputy Ó Laoghaire was making that there should be possibilities of working with local authorities, in terms of such matters as housing extensions, is something we should recommend. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister to keep us informed of progress because there will be recruitment needed, and the point about having senior social workers available. It should be a wrap-around service because it is at the weekends and at night time that so many of these issues arise. It is important as well that whoever responds is as knowledgeable as possible about the needs of the child. My particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Just about the signs of safety and the officials being aware of that in their monitoring.