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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: That is not correct.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: I visited the school on a number of occasions. All our colleagues know the school. Since 2003, the Department has spent €1.16 million on prefabs. We would have a new school built with that. The school is unhealthy and unsafe for the kids. My colleagues have mentioned the technical assessments. The technical assessment was carried out in February. I submitted another...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: I am pleased to be given the opportunity to respond to the budget. I will restrict my remarks to housing, planning and local government in which the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, is involved. I was appointed as party spokesperson on the issue in May 2018. Since May I have endeavoured, along with my party, to be constructive in my approach and in dealings with the Government. We are in...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: It was a matter for the senior Minister.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: The hotelier seems to spend a lot of time following up on what Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is doing.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school transport for the special needs students in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40649/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place in order to address the shortage of anaphylactic pens here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40634/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (9 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average and total cost of non-departmental funded Part V units in 2017; if the units were new builds or existing on-site or off site; the funding stream that purchased them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40941/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (4 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for the Living City initiative relief; the number of successful applications; the amount of taxation expenditure on the scheme per annum since its inception to date and by type, that is, owner occupier, commercial and rented. [40530/18]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Buckley should not get angry. We know what happens when he gets angry.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy should calm down.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: Why did the Deputy vote against affordable housing in May?

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: I wish to share time with Deputies Casey, Curran and O'Rourke.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: Fianna Fáil supports the motion. We would have liked to have had more input into its content, but on balance and accepting its spirit, we support it. The scale and depth of the housing crisis represents the most serious challenge we face as a country today. There are spiralling social housing waiting lists and the scars of homelessness pockmark our cities. Renters struggle to find a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank Deputy Jan O'Sullivan for putting forward the Bill. On a general point, my party has published ten Bills, some of which have completed Second Stage, although most have not gone much further. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, talks about listening to the Opposition and asks it to come forward with its ideas. I do not think we have had any...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 562. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the suggestions in the early years policy to ensure that there is adequate care to meet the needs of children in the pre-early childhood care and education, ECCE, bracket in order that their parents can go to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39694/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare services switching from full-day care to a part-time or sessional model from January 2018 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39889/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility (2 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to revise the mortgage-to-rent scheme income criteria to exclude overtime worked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40094/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (2 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of rapid build units delivered in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39441/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (2 Oct 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: 630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the commencement of the pilot cost rental scheme announced for Enniskerry, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39692/18]