Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Departmental Reports

Eoin Ó Broin

58. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that his Department’s monthly homeless report no longer provides data on single parent family homelessness; and if he will ensure that all future monthly homeless reports include a breakdown of family homelessness by single and two parent families. [5301/22]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

332. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to publish the review of social housing income thresholds which was completed at the end of 2021; if he plans to raise the thresholds; and if so, when and the amount. [4404/22]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

333. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for the revised defective block redress scheme; when the legislation will be published; and when the new scheme will be open to applications. [4405/22]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

343. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total allocation of funding to Dublin City Council for the affordable purchase and affordable cost rental homes at O’Devaney Gardens; the allocation of the affordable housing fund per unit of affordable purchase accommodation; and the allocation of cost rental equity loan or other related funding for the purchase of the affordable cost rental accommodation on this development. [4501/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

347. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average number of weeks that the four stage approval process is currently taking for social housing new builds that were completed in the past 12 months. [4802/22]

Departmental Policies

Eoin Ó Broin

348. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new State architecture policy will be published. [4803/22]

General Practitioner Services

Eoin Ó Broin

742. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the extension of general practitioner visit cards to six and seven year olds as announced in Budget 2022. [4792/22]

Vaccination Programme

Eoin Ó Broin

755. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if 12 to 16 year olds will be eligible to receive a booster dose before their EU Digital COVID Certificates expire. [4862/22]

Health Services Staff

Eoin Ó Broin

323. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if frontline workers in section 39 organisations are eligible for the pandemic bonus payment; and if not, the reason. [4214/22]

Office of Public Works

Eoin Ó Broin

60. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 15 December 2021, if he has received information in relation to the licence (details supplied). [3842/22]

Rental Sector

Eoin Ó Broin

62. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he plans to take to slow down the disorderly exit of accidental and semi-professional landlords from the private rented sector and its impact on rising levels of homelessness. [3576/22]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

64. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the increased reliance on turnkeys by local authorities, approved housing bodies, the Land Development Agency and the Housing Agency for the delivery of social and affordable housing as outlined in the Government’s new housing plan will inflate the cost of social and affordable housing and will put those public agencies in direct competition with private purchasers for the limited supply of private homes. [3577/22]

Derelict Sites

Eoin Ó Broin

66. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, given his role in overseeing the vacant homes strategy, his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between derelict units recorded in the GeoDirectory residential buildings report and those on the derelict sites register nationally; if his attention has been further drawn to the lack of implementation and collection of the derelict sites levy; and the action being taken to combat same. [3578/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

78. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of genuinely affordable homes to rent and to buy on an estate (details supplied) and Poolbeg, Dublin city. [3324/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

83. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the social housing output as of the end of Q4 of 2021. [3323/22]

Departmental Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

97. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide further details on the way that a person who has been through the insolvency process can access the local authority mortgage scheme. [3326/22]

Water Services

Eoin Ó Broin

104. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the ongoing negotiations between the various parties on the creation of a single water utility. [3327/22]

Traveller Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

130. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the findings of the report A Hidden Crisis: Traveller homelessness in the South West published 18 January 2022; and the response by his Department to the report. [3325/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

308. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the full year expenditure for housing assistance payment, rental accommodation scheme and leasing for 2021 will be available. [3518/22]

School Transport

Eoin Ó Broin

382. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education when a person (details supplied) will receive transport on the school transport scheme. [3292/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Eoin Ó Broin

439. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection when the full year expenditure for rent supplement in 2021 will be available. [3519/22]

Visa Agreements

Eoin Ó Broin

514. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice if she will consider granting an extension to the number of hours of employment allowed for a person (details supplied) under their visa. [3586/22]

Medical Inquiries

Eoin Ó Broin

576. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1947 of 27 July 2021, if he will provide an update in relation to the proposed inquiry into the licensing of sodium valproate; when the inquiry will begin; when engagement with families affected by the drug will commence; and the timeline for the delivery of the report. [3099/22]

Proposed Legislation

Eoin Ó Broin

116. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason for excluding natural gas from head 20 of the general scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63139/21]

Energy Production

Eoin Ó Broin

118. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the risk analysis that has been taken regarding the proposed new gas power plants and the liabilities of the State under the energy charter treaty investor provisions given a judgement (details supplied); his views on the fact that the European Union energy investors can set up an office in another country to avoid the European Court of Justice ruling; and the way an energy investment with mixed European Union and non-European Union investors could take legal action under the Energy Charter Treaty on grounds of discrimination. [63273/21]

Road Traffic Accidents

Eoin Ó Broin

278. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport the number of road accidents involving HGV or commercial drivers that occurred in Ireland in the past three years; the number of the accidents that were during periods in which derogation was allowed; the number of the accidents that involved fatalities or serious injury; and the number of drivers that have been prosecuted for an offence as a result of death or serious injury in a road accident involving a HGV or commercial vehicle. [2198/22]

Customs and Excise

Eoin Ó Broin

332. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the reason that gifts worth under the value of €20,000 must have a TARIC code. [1439/22]

Customs and Excise

Eoin Ó Broin

333. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the reason that gifts destined for Ireland would be rejected as having no TARIC codes despite being clearly marked with their value and contents. [1440/22]

Departmental Reviews

Eoin Ó Broin

348. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the status of his review of the recommendations of the working group on the tax and fiscal treatment of landlords; if a summary of those recommendations will be provided in tabular form; and the current views of his Department on each of those recommendations. [1991/22]

Traveller Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

500. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Travellers in Cork city and in counties Cork and Kerry experiencing homelessness and in emergency accommodation, respectively; and the number of the Traveller families accommodated in those areas by accommodation type from 2017 to date in tabular form. [63561/21]

Defective Building Materials

Eoin Ó Broin

502. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funding has been made available for research into the issue of defective blocks by his Department or by the Housing Agency; if so, the amount; the persons or bodies this funding has been awarded to; the nature of the research; when it will be published; and if it will be available to the public. [63611/21]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

503. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total allocation for the shared equity loan fund for 2022; the amount he expects the pillar banks to add to the fund; the agency that is planned to administer the fund; if the staff of this agency will be seconded from the pillar banks; and when the loan facility will be open to applications. [63630/21]

Rental Sector

Eoin Ó Broin

504. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions his Department plans to take to ensure the practice of landlords offering accommodation for sex is not permitted within the rental system in view of newspaper reports of landlords offering accommodation for sex. [63631/21]

Vacant Properties

Eoin Ó Broin

508. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of the proposed CPO and sale of derelict and vacant properties by the Housing Agency; the amount of funding that has been made available for 2023; the targets for 2022; if this is part of a Croí Connaithe or in addition to it; and if these properties will be in cities, towns or both. [1078/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

516. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is reviewing the advice to local authorities with regard to the purchase of second-hand homes for social housing; and if he will consider allowing local authorities to purchase property that has a sitting tenant in receipt of housing assistant payment, HAP, rental accommodation scheme, RAS, or rent supplement in circumstances in which the tenant has received a notice to quit. [1211/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

551. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Commission on Housing including the membership of same; the number of applicants; the names of the unsuccessful applicants; the terms of reference; the work programme; and the timeline for the modules being considered. [1875/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

552. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of HAP, RAS and privately owned long-term leases at the end of 2021; and the cost to the Exchequer of each scheme in 2021, in tabular form. [1876/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

553. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing leases in place at the end of 2021, by lease type, that is, approved housing body lease to own, mortgage to rent, National Asset Residential Property Services, private sector lease and so on; and the cost to the Exchequer of each of these categories of leases; and the cost as of the end of 2021, in tabular form. [1878/22]

Traveller Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

554. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new Traveller specific units of accommodation provided in 2021, by local authority in tabular form. [1879/22]

Local Authorities

Eoin Ó Broin

555. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the social housing targets for each local authority in each year from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form. [1880/22]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

556. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the regulations governing the affordable rental and purchase schemes will be published; and if he will provide a summary of such regulations published to date. [1920/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

564. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of income eligibility thresholds for social housing that according to Housing for All was to be completed in Q4 of 2021. [1987/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

565. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the National Homeless Action Committee; the membership of same; the terms of reference; the number of meetings to date; and if the invites of the group will be published on the website of his Department. [1988/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

566. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the targets and the delivery data of Housing First tenancies from 2018 to 2021 as per the first Housing First action plan in tabular form. [1989/22]

Rental Sector

Eoin Ó Broin

567. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to enact the deposit retention scheme passed into law in 2015. [1990/22]

Rental Sector

Eoin Ó Broin

568. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a progress report on the target for 25% of private rental tenancies to be inspected annually under the commitment outlined in Housing for All will be provided; the percentage of private rental properties that were inspected in 2021; and the expectation for 2022. [1992/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

569. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new social housing units, that is, new builds and acquisitions, delivered from 2016 to 2021 by housing size, that is, one bed, two bed, three bed and so on in tabular form. [1993/22]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

570. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Housing for All commitment to develop a new youth homeless strategy. [1994/22]

Public Private Partnerships

Eoin Ó Broin

571. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for the increased use of public private partnerships in the period from 2022 to 2025. [1995/22]

Housing Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

572. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of his proposed reforms of the mortgage to rent scheme. [1996/22]