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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 302. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to consider reinstating the 90:10 ratio for funding for local government homeless services as in many local authorities the funding ration has slipped to 70:30. [20533/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 323. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 5 July 2016 on funding allocated to the mortgage to rent scheme in the years 2013 to 2016 to date, the number of units approved housing bodies and local authorities acquired, by year, in tabular form. [21022/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 334. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish his action plan for housing and make arrangements with the Government Chief Whip to ensure there is a debate on it in Dáil Éireann prior to the 2016 summer recess. [21034/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Data (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 341. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total underspend from the Irish Water metering programme; and if these funds can be reallocated to other areas of capital expenditure by Irish Water in 2016 and 2017. [21249/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 564. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive speech and language therapy. [21059/16]

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: She could have the three minutes.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Deputies know, the housing and homelessness crisis is getting worse. Some 130,000 families are on local authority housing waiting lists, many waiting on average ten years before they have the chance of a permanent home. Over 6,000 people are sleeping in emergency accommodation tonight, as the Minister knows, over 2,000 of whom are children. These figures do not include the large...

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Consider the situation where a parent is at home one evening and receives a telephone call to say that their 17 year old son has been arrested while travelling abroad. He was exercising his right to assembly by attending a peaceful demonstration which was then attacked by state forces and, with a group of almost 400 people, fled in to a local mosque to seek shelter. We know this because...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Water Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance for details of the treatment of the debt portion of the Irish Water capital programme, for each of the years 2015 to 2021, in terms of how it impacts on the State's debt to gap ratio, and the calculation of the expenditure benchmark and fiscal space available to the Government in each of those years. [20246/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest estimated final expenditure for each of the three European Globalisation Adjustment Fund programmes currently in operation, in tabular form. [20247/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown for each of the years 2015 to 2021, of the Irish Water capital programme funding, broken down by equity and debt portions in nominal and percentage terms. [20246/16]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is an amendment missing from the groupings - amendment No. 7.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Thank you.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: For clarity, when the Minister said that no water bills will be issued during this period, he was referring to charges that would have otherwise been charged during this period. Irish Water will continue to issue bills during this period for any arrears for the period before 1 July. Is he saying no bills either for new charges or arrears will be issued? I assume that after we go through...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 5, 6, 8 and 12 to 23, inclusive, have been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would ask the Minister to please answer my question, for clarity.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked the Minister a second question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked for some time to be set aside after we deal with the amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister introduced Second Stage of the Bill he made clear that the intention of the expert commission was to try to take the heat out of the debate and enable us, to use the Minister's words, to have a rational conversation about it. Many of us were sceptical about the intention of the commission but were willing to take the Minister at his word. Having said that, the fact that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister published the terms of reference of the commission the Department's press release described them as draft terms of reference. For this reason, many of us took time to submit amendments to the Minister.