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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Credit Unions (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I will embarrass the Minister of State into actually doing something.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Credit Unions (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: It is still significant.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Credit Unions (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: One could take this away from being a credit union issue and say it is a social housing issue. Government policy since 2014 has been to provide alternative sustainable sources of funding and here is one that has not been utilised in five years. The Minister of State has regularly replied to questions that I have tabled that one credit union body had a special purpose vehicle ready. What is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Credit Unions (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I could probably do a better job than whoever the Minister of State has doing it at present.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Credit Unions (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: That is different.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Loans (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I do not know where to start. For local authorities to receive and process applications is one thing but to issue loan offers is another. How many local authorities are not allowing the drawdown of those funds? I imagine the Minister has heard in recent days of testimony from several individuals throughout the country from south Dublin to Waterford. People applying to several local...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Loans (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I genuinely welcome that clarification. It is really important. The message the Minister is giving in response to the questions I am asking on behalf of Fianna Fáil is that there should be no impediment to any of the loans or mortgages approved as of now being drawn down. Will the Minister indicate whether the Department will issue a written directive to the local authorities,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Loans (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Does the Minister have any idea of the timeframe?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Loans (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding status of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16449/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Loans (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: This is an opportune moment to ask the Minister to clarify what the position is with the funding status of the Rebuilding Ireland home loans scheme. It is especially opportune in light of the additional information I received through the freedom of information procedure to the effect that the Department knew as of last September that there were issues with monitoring. Will the Minister tell...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend rent pressure zone designation periods beyond three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16253/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the tenant purchase scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16250/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the income eligibility limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16251/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when new rural housing guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16252/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new primary school for the Donabate area of County Dublin as announced in April 2018; if he has identified locations for the proposed school; if the school patronage has been decide upon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16062/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process in relation to the way in which a school will be chosen to be divested in the Malahide, Portmarnock and Kinsealy area particularly if each of the eight schools in question vote for their schools to remain with the current patron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16378/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will proceed with his plans to divest one of the eight existing national schools in the Kinsealy, Malahide and Portmarnock area when a school (details supplied) proposed for the Broomfield site in Malahide is built and running at capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16379/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend rent pressure zone designation periods beyond three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16451/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average waiting time for completion of HAP application processing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16601/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Applications Data (9 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average waiting time for completion of social housing support application processing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16602/19]