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Tue, 13 Feb 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Eoin Ó Broin
296. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 267 of 30 January 2024, the process through which parents can apply for an exemption for their child to remain in an early intervention class for a further year, due to being unable to secure a special school place, as this was not answered in the previous reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6322/24]
Wed, 7 Feb 2024
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Estimates Publication
Eoin Ó Broin
122. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the AEV and REV, including details of all individual spending programmes under each subhead for 2023 and 2024 for the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in tabular form. [5256/24]
Wed, 7 Feb 2024
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Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
265. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [5257/24]
Wed, 7 Feb 2024
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Legislative Measures
Eoin Ó Broin
266. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is preparing legislation to address issues of habitual residency and social housing support eligibility; and if so, the purpose and potential scope of the legislation. [5258/24]
Wed, 7 Feb 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Eoin Ó Broin
267. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of owners' management companies that have applied for the interim emergency funding for buildings with defects that was open for application in December 2023. [5259/24]
Wed, 7 Feb 2024
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Rental Sector
Eoin Ó Broin
268. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what subvention is available to the Land Development Agency to help it ensure that its rents are at least 25% below market rent; the number of applications received by the LDA for any such subvention; and the amount committed to date for this subvention. [5260/24]
Wed, 7 Feb 2024
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International Protection
Eoin Ó Broin
442. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of units of modular accommodation for temporary protection recipients that have been delivered to date, by location, number of units and average cost per unit of accommodation, in tabular form. [5265/24]
Thu, 1 Feb 2024
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Tax Code
Eoin Ó Broin
221. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the tax treatment of rental income from local authority and approved housing body social tenancies and rental income from local authority, approved housing body and Land Development Agency rental tenancies. [4840/24]
Thu, 1 Feb 2024
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Wildlife Protection
Eoin Ó Broin
278. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he agrees that the level of successful prosecutions of wildlife crime is too low; that expectations of at least 200 prosecutions per year have not been reached, despite substantially more legislation and increased monitoring being in place; if the reason for the lack of prosecutions (details supplied), especially with regard to Ireland’s commitments under the new UN ’30 x 30’ Biodiversity Goals and new National Biodiversity Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4752/24]
Thu, 1 Feb 2024
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Wildlife Protection
Eoin Ó Broin
290. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the number of prosecutions for wildlife crimes by county for each of the years 2019 to 2023. [4900/24]
Thu, 1 Feb 2024
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Wildlife Protection
Eoin Ó Broin
291. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the function of the Wildlife Crime Committee within the National Parks and Wildlife Service; to provide an update on what progress it has made, and measures taken to address noticeable discrepancy between regions in the number of prosecutions taken. [4901/24]
Thu, 1 Feb 2024
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National Parks and Wildlife Service
Eoin Ó Broin
292. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what qualifications are required on recruitment and what further in-house training is given to the administration and field staff of NPWS to effectively carry out the function of implementation and enforcement of the various wildlife-related legislation, including the Wildlife Acts 1976 to 2018, the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011, the European Communities (Wildlife Act 1976)(Amendment) Regulations 1986 and the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats)(Restrictions on the use of Poison Bait) Regulations 2010. [4902/24]
Wed, 31 Jan 2024
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Climate Action Plan
Eoin Ó Broin
13. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the progress of local authorities' climate action plans; to outline, in tabular form, each local authority that has completed public consultation; and the local authorities that are currently completing public consultation and those that are yet to begin public consultation. [4428/24]
Wed, 31 Jan 2024
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Renewable Energy Generation
Eoin Ó Broin
15. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 18 January 2024, to outline whether the two schemes that have received €40,000 each in grant funding are 100% community owned or 51% community owned, in tabular form. [4508/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Electricity Supply Board
Eoin Ó Broin
141. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on the provision of consent for an increase to the pensions of retired ESB workers; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3714/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Electricity Supply Board
Eoin Ó Broin
227. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide an update on the provision of consent for an increase to the pensions of retired ESB workers; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3715/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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School Accommodation
Eoin Ó Broin
253. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the capital project for a school (details supplied); if a timeframe is available for the commencement of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3648/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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School Accommodation
Eoin Ó Broin
254. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the capital project for a school (details supplied); if a timeframe is available for the commencement of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3649/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Education Policy
Eoin Ó Broin
255. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education for an update on the provision of increased capacity at second-level schools in the Newcastle, County Dublin area. [3650/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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School Admissions
Eoin Ó Broin
257. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education for an update on the provision of a special school place for a person (details supplied). [3727/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Eoin Ó Broin
267. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 651 of 17 January 2024, to outline the process for an application for exemption for an early intervention class for a person with special educational needs (details supplied). [3811/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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School Admissions
Eoin Ó Broin
272. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the options available to a person (details supplied) who is unable to secure a school placement in their locality and is unable to obtain a home tutor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3925/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
321. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the new build social housing delivered in the first three quarters of 2023, by scheme type (details supplied) in tabular form. [3794/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
322. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of a new build social home delivered via turnkey in 2023, broken down by local authority, in tabular form. [3795/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
323. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of a new build social home delivered via SHIP construction in 2023, broken down by local authority, in tabular form. [3796/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
324. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide in tabular form the average cost of a new build social home delivered via CALF construction in 2023 broken down by local authority. [3798/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
325. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide in tabular form the average cost of a new build social home delivered via Part V in 2023 broken down by local authority. [3799/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Departmental Bodies
Eoin Ó Broin
330. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he intends to appoint any new members to the LDA board including representatives from his Department or Finance or Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform.
[3934/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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International Protection
Eoin Ó Broin
481. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status/leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale for this policy; the number of people who have been moved on foot of these letters; and a breakdown of these moves, including information on from where; and the location to which they have been moved. [3948/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Dental Services
Eoin Ó Broin
504. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for orthodontic treatment; the reason an available appointment has been so delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3730/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Hospital Services
Eoin Ó Broin
505. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health to confirm the closure of the endoscopy unit in a hospital (details supplied) for the month of January under the Winter Initiative; the reason for the decision to close the department; what impact assessments were carried out in advance of the closure; if the closure will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3736/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Hospital Services
Eoin Ó Broin
506. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if the bowel screening programme in a hospital (details supplied) is impacted as a consequence of the closure of the endoscopy unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3737/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Dental Services
Eoin Ó Broin
517. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the number of children assessed at category 5 and awaiting orthodontic treatment in CHO7, by those waiting over 1, over 2, over 3 and over 4 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3856/24]
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
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Energy Policy
Eoin Ó Broin
64. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what actions he has taken to work with like-minded European States to promote and support changes to European energy laws, in particular the revision of the European Union's Gas Directive and Gas Regulation in order to allow the importation of fracked gas to be restricted since the publication of the Policy Statement on the Importation of Fracked Gas. [3115/24]
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
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Driver Licences
Eoin Ó Broin
79. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 17 January 2024, the reason drivers with medical issues on a three year licence must pay double the amount of a driver without medical issues to renew their licences over a ten year period; and if a reduction in the fee for a three year licence will be considered. [3113/24]
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
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Electric Vehicles
Eoin Ó Broin
80. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport if he has considered plans to incentivise uptake of electric vehicles in rural areas. [3114/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Tax Reliefs
Eoin Ó Broin
217. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the total number of claims for the private rental tax credit in 2023; the average amount of the claims for 2023; the total cost of the claims in 2023; and a breakdown, by local authority area, of the number of claims and the average amount claimed. [2716/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Housing Schemes
Eoin Ó Broin
336. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the first home shared equity loan can be combined with a local authority mortgage for the purchase of a new build property and if so, if he will outline the rules. [2424/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Eoin Ó Broin
345. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in tabular form the number of new applications to the enhanced defective block redress scheme; the number of transfers from the old scheme; where these applications are at in terms of the stages of the process; the number who have drawn down funds to date; and the number who have drawn down their full grant, broken down by local authority area and year. [2523/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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National Standards Authority of Ireland
Eoin Ó Broin
346. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the NSAI review of IS 465. [2524/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Eoin Ó Broin
378. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the process through which a person (details supplied) can defer their pension and extend their employment. [2388/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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State Bodies
Eoin Ó Broin
137. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide details of the contracts that have been awarded by the SEAI to a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2018 to 2024, in tabular form and for each contract to detail the service provided and the total value of the contract. [2226/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Renewable Energy Generation
Eoin Ó Broin
138. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the number of 100% community-owned renewable energy projects and number of 51% community-owned renewable energy projects from RESS 1 that have received the enabling grant. [2252/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Vacant Properties
Eoin Ó Broin
212. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant and derelict home refurbishment grants drawn in 2023 and the average value of the grants drawn down. [2227/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Eoin Ó Broin
213. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority mortgages that were drawn down in 2023 and the average value of the mortgages drawn down. [2228/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Eoin Ó Broin
214. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of first home scheme shared equity loans drawn down in 2023 and the average amount of the draw down. [2229/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Eoin Ó Broin
215. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [2230/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Naturalisation Applications
Eoin Ó Broin
239. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice to provide a further timeframe regarding the processing of a naturalisation application for a person (details supplied). [2111/24]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Environmental Policy
Eoin Ó Broin
8. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Taoiseach whether the Central Statistics Office will consider ceasing the use of 'world population' as an environmental indicator, as used in its graphic posted to the CSO's social media channels (details supplied) in light of the evidence of very highly unequal resource distribution including from reports by an organisation (details supplied) which show the richest 1% of the world's population has the same emissions as the poorest 50%. [56963/23]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Driver Licences
Eoin Ó Broin
277. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware that drivers who are limited to a three year driving licence due to medical reasons, when renewing their licence pay almost double that of a driver without medical issues in a ten year period where a three year licence is currently €35 and a ten year licence is €55; the reason this is the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1475/24]