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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (14 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 771. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the regulations and guidelines he has provided to local authorities for the purposes of operating their housing assistance payment transfer lists; when he provided these; if he has not provided them, the reason therefore; and given that housing assistance payment has been in operation since January 2015, the reason for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (14 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 772. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of his contacts with the Department of Social Protection in respect of Intreo's decision to issue letters to recipients of long-term rent supplement stating that their payments due may be suspended if they do not transfer to the housing assistance payment. [6602/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I congratulate Deputy Curran on his election as Chairman. Given the nine-week timeframe within which we must conduct our business, it would be useful for the committee to have an informal discussion on the structure of the business of committee in terms of what we hope to do within the timeframe set down. If we could get agreement in principle in that regard today, we could then hit the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When Sinn Féin initiated the idea of this committee, we were keen that it would try to do two things and what we proposed is in the spirit of what most members have suggested so far. On one hand, we want the committee to look at the current crisis and try to come up with constructive proposals for government to tackle some of the short-term and long-term problems. We are keen that the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Without being awkward, everybody is talking about new politics. There is no reason we cannot discuss the mechanics of how we do our business in public session. There is value in staying in public session. From the conversation we have just had, I do not think there is going to be any disagreement over how we are to structure our business. I would suggest we stay in public session.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: If we were to agree on the approach of having themed sessions, we could add more - I would have more than five - and that would get us started. We are not going to agree on all of the names now, but if the Chairman were to take it upon himself to correspond with the members of the committee by e-mail or through the clerk, we could add names as we move along. There are, for example, academic...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree with Deputy Ruth Coppinger on the tenth category she outlined. The first issue concerns the Minister. That would be a good starting point for the reasons outlined by Deputy Brendan Ryan. The second issue is homelessness. We could, for example, look at the likes of NGOs, the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and the local authority homeless sections.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, we could. The third issue is social housing. Again, we could bring in representatives of the local authorities, housing associations, the Housing Finance Agency and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. The fourth issue is private housing. While I agree with Deputy Ruth Coppinger, private housing needs to form part of the discussion. We could speak...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Going back to the proposal of Deputy Funchion, it is important we are not seen to be just focusing on Dublin and it would be a valuable step to have a number of sessions outside of this House, possibly in rural constituencies or in one of the Dublin constituencies where the problem is particularly acute.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hear what the Deputy is saying but it is really important that we afford to those who are experiencing the crisis exactly the same status as everybody else in terms of our engagement because their views are as important. As someone who worked for a homelessness charity for a number of years, I believe such charities can advise and suggest who the committee could invite and who they...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I refer to the comments made by Deputy Brendan Ryan. One aspect to consider is that people who are in the homelessness system are users of public services, whether social welfare services, homelessness services or something else. They have an experience which is relevant to some of the recommendations we are making in the sense that they might be saying their experience has identified...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will need a little flexibility, given that, if a Government is formed and new Standing Orders are introduced, we will need to revise it. However, we can begin on that basis.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 241. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to set down the cost of implementing the recommendations of the interdepartmental group on future investment in early years and school-age care and education report regarding subvented child care provision in tabular form across all bands. [8390/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mayoral Election (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 428. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the introduction of a directly elected mayor for the city and county of Dublin; and the work his Department has undertaken on this matter since the consultation with the four Dublin local authorities in 2013. [7997/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Chairman propose to go through each of the headings and seek suggestions at this point?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to suggest a couple of obvious names. The first is Dr. Eoin O'Sullivan from Trinity College, one of the country's leading academic experts on homelessness. He would be a good witness to invite as he has probably done the most up-to-date research on the causes of homelessness, funding models and so forth. Another is Mr. Cathal Morgan, the head of the homeless agency which...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is all under the homelessness heading.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have some suggestions. We should invite the head of the Irish Council for Social Housing because they obviously represent all the voluntary housing providers in the social sector.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. I have a couple of other suggestions. If we have the South Dublin and Dublin city managers in today, we could also invite a couple of other managers and heads of housing from other local authorities. Limerick City Council would be interesting because they piloted HAP first, so it would be good to hear from the head of housing there. We could also include some of the rural counties...