Parliamentary questions

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

346. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the categories of people who are eligible for postal voting. [7583/24]

Disability Services

Eoin Ó Broin

469. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many courses (details supplied) will run in CHO7 in 2024; and the dates on which they will commence. [8092/24]

Homeless Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

63. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional measures he plans to introduce in 2024 to address the deepening homelessness crisis. [7243/24]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

64. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered in 2023 via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan and the Land Development Agency's Project Tosaigh; and his views on the rising rents and house prices under these schemes. [7244/24]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]