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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 263. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total annual allocation for housing assistance payment tenancies for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in tabular form; and the total number of tenancies funded or expected to be funded for each year. [14258/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 264. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total annual allocation for rental accommodation scheme tenancies for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in tabular form; and the total number of tenancies funded or expected to be funded for each year. [14259/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 267. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for excluding Part V properties from the new tenant purchase scheme. [14328/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 408. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the total funding allocated to home care packages in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and to date in 2016, and to identify the funding gap between the annual allocation and the annual requests for funding for each of these years. [14380/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 409. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons who applied for home care packages; the total numbers requested for each year from 2012 to date in 2016; the total number of persons who received home care packages and the total number of hours received each year from 2012 to date in 2016. [14381/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the total allocation of funding for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and to date in 2016 to provide emergency placements for persons with disabilities, and to identify the funding gap between the annual allocation and the annual requests for funding for each of these years. [14382/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons for whom applications for emergency placements for persons with disabilities were received in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and to date in 2016 and the total number of persons for each of these years who received such placements. [14383/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 670. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of applications received by her Department for a second early childhood care and education scheme year starting in September 2016 from parents of children born before 1 January 2012. [14373/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 671. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to consider providing greater flexibility in providing an exemption for early childhood care and education scheme eligibility criteria for second year placements for children born before 1 January 2012 to facilitate children who in the opinion of their school principal, are not deemed socially or emotionally ready, to progress into...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 672. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to allow a child (details supplied) to access a second year early childhood care and education scheme placement on the grounds that the child is not socially or emotionally ready to progress into school. [14375/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 675. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to allow a person (details supplied) to access a second year early childhood care and education placement on the grounds that the child is not socially or emotionally ready to progress into school. [14415/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (8 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 679. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual spend on domestic violence services for households experiencing homelessness from 2012 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [14633/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the presentation. Like the Chairman, I welcome the fact that the Minister is giving a commitment to work on a cross-party and independent basis, as it is really important. The proof is going to be in the content of the action plan. Certainly, for our party, the two key elements will be the extent to which the plan departs from what we are clearly of the view were...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, it will still be possibly even half that. Rather than an exclusive focus on the supply of private housing, better management of and investment in that vacant stock is a much quicker route to providing those units, whether for the social or private sector, along with tackling issues around mortgage distress and rent. I know some of these issues do not fall under the Minister's...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will make a number of comments and then ask two key questions. I appreciate that people like me know far less about the how the procurement and tendering process works than the witnesses but from the outside, I see competent officials in local authorities and in the Department who have to continually go back and forth through that still very...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is based on the assumption that housing demand will not increase. In other words, that the level of demand will remain static at 2014 levels, and we know that will not be the case.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Two questions I asked at the start of the meeting were not answered. I asked many questions and it is understandable that they slipped through. The first question is to both the Department and the housing managers. Is it not possible for us to consider large-scale, local authority-led, mixed tenure, mixed income estates on local authority land, funded through a NAMA NARPS-type vehicle? I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 41. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the governance arrangements of hospital groups; if, how and when he will enact legislation to put the administrative arrangement of hospital groups on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13698/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish and circulate the guidance on developing hospital group strategic plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13699/16]

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: First Stage (1 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to provide for rent certainty in the private rental market by linking changes in rent arising from a rent review to the Consumer Price Index.