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Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons Supports (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to address the rehabilitation needs of homeless persons with addiction issues through the new national drugs strategy which was to be effective from January 2017. [50520/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a revised application by an organisation (details supplied) for HSE funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50503/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 218. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of emergency refuge accommodation spaces for victims of domestic violence provided in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [50515/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons aged 18 to 24 years of age who are living independently and receiving housing supports in the form of emergency accommodation will be eligible for the higher rate of jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50506/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons aged 18 to 24 years of age who are eligible for housing supports but who are unable to access a tenancy will be eligible for the higher rate of jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50507/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons aged 18 to 24 years of age who are receiving housing supports in the form of a HAP and or RAS tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50508/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Prisoner Welfare (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to enhance inter-agency arrangements to ensure that accommodation, welfare and health supports for prisoners are in place prior to their release. [50516/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to strengthen the existing housing-led approach in Dublin and extend it to other urban areas focusing on persistent rough sleepers and long-term homeless households. [50517/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to examine and analyse the reason offers of accommodation are not taken up by households in emergency accommodation in hotels. [50518/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to extend the Threshold tenancy protection service nationwide. [50521/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (4 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to roll out a national awareness campaign targeted at families and persons at risk of losing their homes. [50522/19]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not have a script.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Not yet.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Thirteen Bills, and the Government is lucky that it is still here.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Thirteen Bills in a year.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I respect the right of the Member to speak. I did not interrupt her colleague. I am stating my own opinion and the opinion of thousands of other people across this country. That is the reality of it. In the first few minutes of this debate the Social Democrats, others and the Government have engaged in a blame game, the Taoiseach having given us a history of former housing Ministers and...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: We have said that and the public will get an opportunity to see that. Nobody watching this debate believes that it would be beneficial for this country to plunge itself into a general election in Christmas week or shortly thereafter, in advance of another Brexit deadline of 31 January. The public are not on the side of the Social Democrats on this motion. Others have jumped on the...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin has presided over the pulling down of the Government in the North of Ireland, such that it has not sat for three years. There is also the matter of the record of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland on housing. Deputy Ó Broin's book is a partitionist book because he never referred in it to Sinn Féin's track record on housing in the North of Ireland. I read it but it...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin walked away from its responsibilities in the North. They are the facts. What Fianna Fáil will not do-----