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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is the tenth budget I have had the opportunity to respond to as the Sinn Féin spokesperson on housing. In every single year, the Minister for housing presents a budget and tells us it will address and improve the housing situation across the State. In the 12 months that follow, house prices, rents and homelessness rise, and social and affordable housing targets that are too low to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the cost reductions to the developers be passed on to the LDA, yes or no?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he is taking to tackle high rents in the private rental sector and the increasing unaffordability of rents in the Government-funded cost rental sector. [54230/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government had a clear commitment to progressively increase the renters' tax credit. Obviously, that promise was broken in yesterday's budget and as a consequence the vast majority if not all of the renters' tax credit will be swallowed up by rental increases based on the most recent data from Daft. Likewise, an increasing number of people who apply for cost rental...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Average rents for new tenants increased by over €1,000 last year and for existing renters by almost €800. Despite the Government's renter's tax credit, the majority of renters will either be worse off or marginally better off. When we change the legislation, however, those rent increases are going to be even more dramatic for people who move tenancy or enter into a new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Prospectively or retrospectively? Apologies; I am not heckling.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: So they will not apply to existing tenancies.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The potential saving for a cost-rental tenant paying an average rent of €1,500 per month would be €225. That is €2,700 a year. I hope that he would insist rather than expect that the LDA provides that. Equally, the VAT reductions on apartments could also be a helpful way for reducing the rent if the VAT reduction is passed on to the AHB or LDA through Project Tosaigh...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Simon Communities of Ireland went on to say yesterday, “The measures announced today will do nothing to reduce the numbers of people being forced to experience the trauma of homelessness.” What it is saying and what I want the Minister to respond to is, of the €235 million of additional funding for homeless services on the allocation to date of this year, how much...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he intends to take in the coming months to halt the relentless rise in adult and child homelessness and to reduce the number of people presenting as homeless and accelerate the number of exits of persons currently in emergency accommodation. [54228/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, homelessness is at the highest level since modern records began. Over 16,000 people, including 5,000 children are officially categorised as homeless and in emergency accommodation funded by the Department. Astonishingly, neither the Minister for Finance nor the Minister for public expenditure and reform even referenced homelessness yesterday. The budget book simply...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, in response to the budget, Focus Ireland said: "Budget 2026 has failed to deliver for the record number of over 16,350 people now homeless as the Government did not take any decisive action on housing to help the most vulnerable in society." The Simon Communities of Ireland in a similar vein said: "It is deeply disappointing that yet again there was no mention of homeless...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the reform of the Multi-Units Development Act 2011, and related regulations of the property service management agents sector. [53749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish legislation on the multi-unit development defects redress scheme. [53748/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to review the targets for and operation of the affordable purchase scheme. [53750/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet with the Lough Neagh stakeholders group to discuss the current ecological crisis impacting on the lake, and by extension to the sections of the wider river basin management area that fall within the counties under his jurisdiction. [53751/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the proposed change to the exempted development regulations. [53747/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Emergency Services (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding search and rescue services in an area (details supplied), if consultation with the local community occurred before the service was moved to the location; what, if any, noise abatement or flight path restrictions are in place for the protection of residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54126/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2024 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure, in tabular form. [54052/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 304. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether primary care psychology services in an area (details supplied) were closed in March 2025 due to no psychologists being in post; if the service remains closed for this reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53972/25]