Parliamentary questions

Rent Supplement Scheme Data

Barry Cowen

612. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement recipients, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3338/18]

State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility

Robert Troy

613. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason credits earned after 65 years of age in the case in which a person is signing on could not be counted towards the pension at 66 years of age. [3373/18]

Pension Provisions

Michael McGrath

614. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1,660 of 16 January 2018, her plans to amend the law to exempt Approved Retirement Fund income from PRSI similar to the way in which annuity income is exempt in view of the fact that in the current low interest rate environment many persons retiring early from a defined contribution scheme are investing in an Approved Retirement Fund and that the vast majority of private sector pension schemes are now defined contribution schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3385/18]

Departmental Bodies Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

615. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of agencies, boards or other bodies under the aegis of her Department that have been disbanded or amalgamated or whose functions were subsumed back into her Department since 2011; the number of such bodies set up by her Department since that date; the names of the bodies in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3403/18]

Personal Injury Claims

Michael McGrath

616. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out and the number of claims the payouts related to by each agency under the aegis of her Department in respect of personal injury claims in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the number of claims that were settled outside of court in each of these years; the number of payments that were as a result of a court judgement in each of these years; the nature of the claims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3420/18]

Citizens Information Services Funding

Willie Penrose

617. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the representative body for supporting Citizens Information Services namely National Association of Citizens Information Services, will continue to be funded by Citizens Information Services going forward; if the national executive committee which represents Money Advice and Budgeting Service staff is being retained under the current restructuring proposals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3487/18]

Money Advice and Budgeting Service Funding

Willie Penrose

618. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the MABS national management forum which was established in 2001 at the request of her Department is now being dismissed with the decision to withdraw its funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3488/18]

Homeless Persons Supports

Catherine Murphy

619. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the stage of the process of departmental intervention with a family identified as having no permanent address that the family will be offered the support of a project worker; the services this project worker will be able to support the family with; the way in which these services are described, provisioned and allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2811/18]

Homeless Persons Supports

Catherine Murphy

620. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps of the process that govern a family's route to and from homelessness nationally, by county; the number of interventions by category (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2812/18]

Environmental Protection Agency

James Browne

621. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the Environmental Protection Agency examined HTC carbonisation plants in view of a report (details supplied) recommending alternative processes to cater for sludge treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2882/18]

Environmental Protection Agency

James Browne

622. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the policies in place to encourage mobile dewatering which a report (details supplied) recommended as an effective and efficient means to empty septic tanks and sewage treatment plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2883/18]

Referendum Campaigns

Ruth Coppinger

623. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the establishment of a referendum commission for a referendum on the eighth amendment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2922/18]

Local Authority Assets

Mick Barry

624. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of undeveloped land owned by each local authority; the amount of land that is zoned residential in each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2924/18]

Emergency Accommodation Data

Eoin Ó Broin

625. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of additional emergency accommodation beds made available in the emergency accommodation system in Dublin city and county between November and December 2017; and if these beds will remain in the system after the cold winter initiative ends. [2937/18]

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Micheál Martin

626. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of affordable and social houses provided in the Cork city and county area; the number on the waiting list for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2961/18]

Homeless Persons Data

Micheál Martin

627. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of families being accommodated in hotels in the Cork city and county area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2962/18]

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Bríd Smith

628. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 2,245 social houses built in 2017 that were delivered by local authorities, approved housing bodies, rapid build by regeneration and via Part V respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2964/18]

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Bríd Smith

629. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Part V homes delivered in 2017 bought by councils and approved housing bodies respectively; the number leased by councils and approved housing bodies respectively; the average cost per unit of these units that were leased by local authority; the length of the leases of those bought; the average monthly rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2965/18]

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Bríd Smith

630. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the cost and size of the 2,266 acquisitions for social housing in 2017, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2966/18]

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Bríd Smith

631. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the length of time of the leases for the 798 houses leased for social housing in 2017; the unit cost of these leases per month, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2967/18]