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Thu, 15 Feb 2024
oral
Defective Building Materials
Eoin Ó Broin
69. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on both the provision of emergency funding for multi-unit developments with building defects and the legislation to underpin the full defective buildings redress scheme. [6825/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
written
Defective Building Materials
Eoin Ó Broin
81. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the low number of applications to the revised defective concrete block remediation scheme and the slow rate of processing existing applications that have transferred to the new scheme. [6824/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
written
Traveller Accommodation
Eoin Ó Broin
94. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group report on Traveller accommodation. [6823/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
written
Mortality Rates
Eoin Ó Broin
102. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his Department’s response to the recent Health Research Board’s report into mortality among single homeless people. [6822/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
written
Referendum Campaigns
Eoin Ó Broin
104. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the constitutional referenda on the right to housing and public ownership of water. [6821/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
written
Departmental Schemes
Eoin Ó Broin
181. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the current status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; the number of appeals awaiting assessment; if an indication of a timeframe to clear the backlog of appeals is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7260/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
written
Departmental Schemes
Eoin Ó Broin
182. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance for an update on the provision of a fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme to replace the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7261/24]
Wed, 14 Feb 2024
written
State Bodies
Eoin Ó Broin
200. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is the Government's intention to seek representatives of his Department and/or the Department of Finance on the LDA board or whether the new board positions will be advertised via the PAS. [6820/24]
Wed, 14 Feb 2024
written
Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
201. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the establishment and use of a designated activity company by Clare County Council to delivery affordable homes in Ennis; his views on the use of DACs in such circumstances; and if their use required Ministerial or Departmental approval. [6833/24]
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
written
National Educational Psychological Service
Eoin Ó Broin
262. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education when a NEPS assessment will be made available to a person (details supplied). [6050/24]
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
written
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
written
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
written
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
written
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
written
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
written
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
written
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
written
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
written
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
written
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]