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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (4 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 306. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment tenancies in place as of 1 April 2016, by new tenancies, and by existing tenancies, where the State subsidy has changed from rent supplement to housing assistance payment. [9038/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Property Sales (4 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 307. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the 2,000 properties transferred to social housing from the National Asset Management Agency or from National Asset Management Agency debtors that have been tenanted, as of 1 April 2016. [9039/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (4 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 308. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress of the targets for 2015 to 2018 announced on 1 April 2015 (details supplied), and the number of units delivered, that is tenanted on 1 April 2016, by local authority, in tabular form. [9040/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (4 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 309. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the 13,000 keys handed over under the social housing strategy in 2015 and in 2016 to date, by tenancy type, including local authority new build, refurbishment, acquisition and re-let; new Part V allocation; approved housing body new build and relet; new and renewed tenancy under the rental accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Data (4 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 318. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer if all moneys paid to Irish Water in domestic water charges up to 1 April 2016 were fully refunded by the State. [9140/16]

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ten years on, domestic water charges continue to be opposed by Sinn Féin, which is why no householder in the North of Ireland is paying them.

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The reason is that Sinn Féin keeps its word.

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Our view on the matter is very straightforward. Some 90 Deputies were elected to this House on a mandate of ending water charges and 39 of us have tabled the motion, as Deputy Adams stated earlier. I welcome the fact Fianna Fáil has abandoned a long-standing commitment to water charges. Why has it done so? It has done so under great pressure from the hundreds of thousands of...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In his absence, I thank Deputy Micheál Martin for the backhanded compliment on the issue of water this morning. He and his colleagues in Fianna Fáil know a thing or two about verbal dexterity. Given the fact his party's U-turns on the issue over the years have turned into veritable cartwheels, "verbal gymnastics" is probably a more appropriate description. It is worth...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Compare this with Sinn Féin's record. Deputy Adams gave it but I will repeat it for the record. In 2006 when the British Government was attempting to do in the North what Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party have been trying to do in this State-----

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----Sinn Féin campaigned against it. When the Assembly was re-established, we deliberately took the Ministry for Regional Development with Mr. Conor Murphy for one reason above all, namely, to halt the introduction of water charges.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Chairman propose to go through each of the headings and seek suggestions at this point?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to suggest a couple of obvious names. The first is Dr. Eoin O'Sullivan from Trinity College, one of the country's leading academic experts on homelessness. He would be a good witness to invite as he has probably done the most up-to-date research on the causes of homelessness, funding models and so forth. Another is Mr. Cathal Morgan, the head of the homeless agency which...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is all under the homelessness heading.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have some suggestions. We should invite the head of the Irish Council for Social Housing because they obviously represent all the voluntary housing providers in the social sector.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. I have a couple of other suggestions. If we have the South Dublin and Dublin city managers in today, we could also invite a couple of other managers and heads of housing from other local authorities. Limerick City Council would be interesting because they piloted HAP first, so it would be good to hear from the head of housing there. We could also include some of the rural counties...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have a further agenda item, which is a legal section. When I was proposing it, I was thinking of a legal academic. That is the point on which we would invite those people-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and deal with those people under that section because they have an important contribution to make.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree with Deputy Coppinger but I do not believe the proposal is that we do not invite the likes of Rory Hearne, for example, or others. A session could be held with representatives from the local authorities and departmental staff on the technical aspects of the delivery of social housing. A separate session could be held around housing policy, to which people such as Rory Hearne and...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are five concrete proposals. The National Economic and Social Council, NESC, produced a very good report entitled Ireland’s Private Rental Sector: Pathways to Secure Occupancy and Affordable Supply. The author of that report could be invited to the committee. The chair of the Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB, could also be a good person to invite. I would also...