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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 289. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 18 October 2016, if the action 1.8 in the Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, which states that Tusla will provide additional emergency refuge accommodation spaces for victims of domestic violence, is the same as the extra eight family units that were promised for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of tenancies in RAS, HAP and any long term leasing programme; the annual cost to the State arising from these schemes and the number of tenancies who have transferred directly into HAP from rent supplement since the scheme was introduced. [35404/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (16 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of rent supplement; the total cost to the State per month arising from these payments; and the number of rent supplement claimants who have come off rent supplement and transferred directly into the housing assistance payment since that scheme was introduced. [35403/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (16 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of a transitional jobseeker's allowance that had previously been in receipt of a one parent family payment. [35402/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (15 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total funding provided to each local authority by his Department for homeless services expressed in monetary terms and as a percentage of the local authorities' overall housing budgets, in tabular form; the reason his Department's contribution to homeless services has been declining as a percentage of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (15 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of design build operate contracts and design build contracts in water services in operation here; and the estimated cost of the remaining life of these contracts, with a breakdown of the annual cost of these contracts. [35122/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (15 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when a water extraction licensing regime will be introduced; if such a regime is required under the terms of the Water Framework Directive; and if such a register would apply to all water extraction including public and commercial operations. [35123/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Local Authority Funding (15 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 655. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding that will be made available to Galway County Council for the purpose of developing a recycling centre in Casla, Connemara, which has been planned by them in conjunction with Údarás na Gaeltachta; the steps that need to be taken to apply and draw down such funding; and the amount of the cost his...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some 750,000 people live in the private rented sector. In Dublin one in four households rent. Gone are the days of renting being the preserve of transient students, low income families or those who were saving to buy their first home. Increasingly, the private rented sector is where low and middle income families, and those who are languishing on council waiting lists, spend long periods...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I take that as a "no".

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I take the Tánaiste's response as a "no" to the one action I asked her about. Any struggling renter watching this debate can only conclude that she is so out of touch with the pressures that people are facing that she just does not understand. The Tánaiste made reference to 30,000 private sector houses. If that is achieved, the houses will not be tenanted for another two years....

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Show it by your actions.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not for struggling renters.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not recovering for struggling renters.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will do my best.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Joan Collins and the Independents 4 Change for allowing Private Members' time to be used for this very important Private Members' Bill. I also thank the Minister, Deputy Coveney, for what was a really constructive contribution. Those of us who have brought forward this Bill do so sincerely but we do not think we have all the answers and we are conscious of the fact that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have six questions. First, on the issue of balanced regional development, the over-concentration of economic and population growth in the Dublin region is bad both for Dublin and for the rest of the country. There is a benefit to having a much more proactive strategy of trying to achieve that goal all people say they want, which is more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The witness might be stepping beyond his departmental brief. Not that we object.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman and witnesses for all the detailed answers. They were most helpful. First, may I remind witnesses of the question in respect of Irish Water and the overlap of the two plans. On the socio-economic disadvantage and the issue of the concentration of population in Dublin, the conversation was really interesting. For me, the unplanned over-concentration of population and...

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to share time with Deputies Martin Kenny, Kathleen Funchion and Pat Buckley.