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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do we know how many of these have gone to appeal, have been lost on appeal, or where the homeowner is not proceeding or has indicated they are not proceeding? Is there a growing number with regard to the previous scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: So no appeals have been heard to date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: So we have no sense of whether there is a potentially growing number of applicants who are unsatisfied with what has been recommended for them and are not willing to proceed on that basis. We do not know that number at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does anybody think we should know that number or if it would be worthwhile trying to quantify that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Am I right that there was to be a review of the scheme in the Department a year on from it being opened? I remember when we had the hearings last year, in and around the time of the scheme being opened, there was talk of a one-year review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When do the witnesses expect that process of the cost review to be completed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Am I incorrect in saying there was to be an internal review within the Department one year into the scheme to see how it was operating, separate to the cost review? If I remember correctly, when we were doing the legislation, we were saying there could be a review of the scheme at least within three years, but it could be done earlier. There seemed to be an indication that there would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has not been published yet, has it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: But it is with the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am going to give the Deputy a final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No doubt these are issues we will return to both in this committee and indeed, for that last issue, in the finance committee. I thank all of the witnesses for their attendance and their patience in answering our questions. We genuinely appreciate it.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's plans to provide a new standalone secondary school for Newcastle, County Dublin. [21293/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts that are being made by her Department to ensure a person (details supplied) obtains a school place suited to their specified educational needs, given that refusals have been received from all schools on a list provided by the NCSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21338/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the rules regarding renting and receiving HAP where the rental property belongs to a family member; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21515/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of units delivered to date or in the delivery pipeline using the affordable housing fund; the location of the units; and the average AHF allocation or allocation range per unit per scheme, in tabular form. [21782/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of units delivered to date or in the delivery pipeline using the serviced sites fund; and the location of the units and the average SSF allocation per unit per scheme, in tabular form. [21781/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of leased social housing properties funded by his Department via SHCEP at the end of 2023; the total cost to the State in 2023; and a breakdown of different lease types (details supplied) other with the full cost for each of these sub sets in 2023, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 577. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to parents with concerns about their children's speech in the absence of a public health nurse providing developmental checks in their area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21393/24]

Residential Tenancies (Illegal Evictions) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (9 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."