Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Departmental Strategies

Eoin Ó Broin

105. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will publish the membership of the rental strategy working group; the number of times it has met; and the persons or bodies it has met and received submissions from. [39327/16]

Waste Disposal Charges

Eoin Ó Broin

234. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the pay-by-weight waste collection system will commence; if he has satisfied himself that the necessary preparations have been undertaken across the State; and if he is considering scrapping plans for its introduction. [39263/16]

Ministerial Correspondence

Eoin Ó Broin

127. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason he has not replied to e-mails of 3 October 2016, 17 October 2016, 11 November 2016 in respect of persons (details supplied) and a grant for a housing adaptation that requires approval of his Department. [39130/16]

Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists

Eoin Ó Broin

185. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if all pre-2011 RAS tenants are eligible to remain on their local authorities housing lists and have access to allocations from the primary housing list or choice based letting systems. [38362/16]

International Conventions

Eoin Ó Broin

189. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he sought legal opinion from the Attorney General on whether the strategic housing section of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 complies with Ireland's EU and international obligations under the Aarhus Convention; and if so, if he will publish this advice. [38444/16]

Homeless Persons Data

Eoin Ó Broin

230. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department provides the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government with the number of homeless adults and children in his Department's funded accommodation services; and if he will engage with his counterparts in the Departments of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Children and Youth Affairs and supply these figures from January 2017 to ensure that they are included in the Department of Housing, Planning, Community, and Local Government official monthly homeless figures. [38443/16]

Homeless Persons Data

Eoin Ó Broin

488. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department does not provide the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government with the number of homeless adults and children in Tusla-funded accommodation services; and if she will engage with her counterparts in the Departments of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Social Protection and supply these figures from January 2017 to ensure that they are included in the Department of Housing, Planning, Community, and Local Government's official monthly homeless figures. [38442/16]

Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

28. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the status of the review of international public funding models for fertility treatment; if he has received the Health Research Board review of international public funding models for fertility treatment; when he will receive and publish it in view of the fact it is due before the end of 2016; when the general scheme of legislative provisions dealing with assisted human reproduction, AHR, will be published; the timeframe for the legislation dealing with AHR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37858/16]

National Treatment Purchase Fund Data

Eoin Ó Broin

41. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the private hospitals and health providers that are under contract with the NTPF, National Treatment Purchase Fund, and his Department and the HSE with respect to the provision of services and surgeries that are not being met publicly or where there are extensive waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37857/16]

Waste Management

Eoin Ó Broin

678. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is anything prohibiting local councils from continuing to grant licences to small pay-by-bag domestic waste collectors while he is examining the future of pay-by-weight regulations following the suspension of their introduction by him earlier this year; and if he will consider the position of small pay-by-bag operators that currently operate in parts of rural Ireland when reviewing the pay-by-weight regulations. [37642/16]

Homeless Persons Data

Eoin Ó Broin

265. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will include figures provided from Tusla of adults and children in domestic violence refuges in his Department's monthly homeless reports. [36271/16]

Adoption Records Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

565. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans regarding medical information for those adopted and fostered, including those whose adoption was forced by religious institutions, in order for them to have access to clinical information pertaining to them and their known family for medical purposes. [35770/16]

Child and Family Agency Data

Eoin Ó Broin

574. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will publish figures provided from Tusla of adults and children in domestic violence refuges on a monthly basis to allow the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to include these figures in their monthly homeless reports. [36272/16]

Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

2. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to direct local authorities to sell public land at low or below market rates as part of pillar 3 of his housing action plan; the public sites currently under consideration for such sale; the total hectarage of these sites; the number of houses that will be provided at these locations; the percentage of these houses that will be social housing; the timeframe for providing these units; and the cost to the State arising from the low or below market sale of these lands. [35578/16]

Library Services

Eoin Ó Broin

22. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to conduct a full and independent analysis of the staffless libraries pilot scheme on which the current roll-out scheme is based. [35444/16]

Emergency Accommodation Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

68. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the engagements he or his officials have had with housing officials in South Dublin County Council in recent months regarding the provision of additional emergency accommodation in that council’s administrative area. [35452/16]

Local Authority Housing Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

73. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the contacts he has had with the Minster for Justice and Equality, relevant Department officials and local authority housing managers to discuss the difficulties faced by the 500 people who are currently in direct provision despite having refugee status; and if he will consider providing these persons with additional supports to help them find housing. [35453/16]

Library Services

Eoin Ó Broin

79. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the continued roll-out of the staffless library scheme will not result in staffing hours being cut. [35445/16]

Housing Policy

Eoin Ó Broin

164. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the projected spend on housing for the lifetime of the Rebuilding Ireland plan broken down into capital and current spend for each year of the plan in tabular form. [35631/16]

Local Authority Funding

Eoin Ó Broin

165. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the annual allocation of capital and current spend and the annual drawdown of capital and current spend by each local authority for each of the years from 2011 to 2016, in tabular form. [35632/16]

Child and Family Agency Remit

Eoin Ó Broin

289. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 18 October 2016, if the action 1.8 in the Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, which states that Tusla will provide additional emergency refuge accommodation spaces for victims of domestic violence, is the same as the extra eight family units that were promised for 2016 for the greater Dublin area as stated in the reply to the parliamentary question. [35638/16]

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Eoin Ó Broin

148. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of tenancies in RAS, HAP and any long-term leasing programme; the annual cost to the State arising from these schemes and the number of tenancies which have transferred directly into HAP from rent supplement since the scheme was introduced. [35404/16]

Jobseeker's Allowance Data

Eoin Ó Broin

162. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of a transitional jobseeker's allowance that had previously been in receipt of a one parent family payment. [35402/16]

Rent Supplement Scheme Data

Eoin Ó Broin

163. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of rent supplement; the total cost to the State per month arising from these payments; and the number of rent supplement claimants who have come off rent supplement and transferred directly into the housing assistance payment since that scheme was introduced. [35403/16]

Homeless Accommodation Funding

Eoin Ó Broin

291. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total funding provided to each local authority by his Department for homeless services expressed in monetary terms and as a percentage of the local authorities' overall housing budgets, in tabular form; the reason his Department's contribution to homeless services has been declining as a percentage of the overall homeless budget from approximately 90% to in some cases only 70%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34976/16]

Water Services Infrastructure

Eoin Ó Broin

363. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of design build operate contracts and design build contracts in water services in operation here; and the estimated cost of the remaining life of these contracts, with a breakdown of the annual cost of these contracts. [35122/16]

EU Directives

Eoin Ó Broin

364. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when a water extraction licensing regime will be introduced; if such a regime is required under the terms of the Water Framework Directive; and if such a register would apply to all water extraction including public and commercial operations. [35123/16]

Local Authority Funding

Eoin Ó Broin

655. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding that will be made available to Galway County Council for the purpose of developing a recycling centre in Casla, Connemara, which has been planned by it in conjunction with Údarás na Gaeltachta; the steps that need to be taken to apply and draw down such funding; and the amount of the cost his Department would fund. [34509/16]

Local Authority Housing Funding

Eoin Ó Broin

203. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the allocations of funding of service providers under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 per year and per organisation for each of the years 2012 to date in 2016, in tabular form. [33616/16]

Immigration Data

Eoin Ó Broin

42. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who remain in direct provision after receiving their stamp four leave to remain; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Reception and Integration Agency is now threatening these persons with eviction with the potential for them to become homeless; if her attention has further been drawn to the very real difficulties these persons are having in accessing private rented accommodation; the supports she plans to put in place to assist these persons in making the transition from direct provision; and if she has discussed this matter with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in order to co-ordinate the efforts of both Departments to prevent these persons from becoming homeless. [33134/16]

Emergency Accommodation Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

77. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if additional funding is available to provide emergency accommodation in South Dublin County Council; if he and his Department have been in discussions with officials in South Dublin County Council to identify potential sites for this emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33132/16]

Direct Provision System

Eoin Ó Broin

78. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of persons who remain in direct provision following receipt of their stamp four visas and the threat of these persons and families being made homeless by the Reception and Integration Agency; if with his responsibility for homelessness policy he has raised this matter with the Minister for Justice and Equality to put in place housing solutions that will prevent persons becoming homeless in the transition from direct provision. [33133/16]

Workplace Relations Commission

Eoin Ó Broin

81. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the equality ground of the nine equality grounds which would potentially cover an allegation that a landlord refused a person a tenancy on the grounds that the prospective tenant would be in receipt of rent supplement or other State rent subsidy schemes; and the number of such cases that have been brought before the WRC since refusal of a tenancy on grounds of rent supplement receipt was deemed illegal. [32664/16]

Immigration Status

Eoin Ó Broin

142. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative or policy basis underpinning the definition of cohabiting used by INIS when determining visa applications; the reason INIS does not consider couples living with the parents of the Irish partner as cohabiting; if she will review this practice and allow such couples to be considered as cohabiting even when they are living with the parent of an Irish citizen in view of the housing crisis and the high costs of rents. [31870/16]

EU Programmes

Eoin Ó Broin

214. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Skills the final level of expenditure in a programme (details supplied); the amount of money returned to the European Commission on completion of the programme; and if he will publish the final report to the European Commission for this programme. [31786/16]

Commission on Domestic Public Water Services

Eoin Ó Broin

247. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money which has been earmarked from his Department for the funding of the independent Commission on Domestic Public Water Services. [31648/16]

Commission on Domestic Public Water Services

Eoin Ó Broin

248. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when and the way in which the special Oireachtas committee to consider the report of the independent Commission on Domestic Public Water Services will be established. [31649/16]

Irish Water Funding

Eoin Ó Broin

249. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of Irish Water's 2017 capital programme which will come from Exchequer funds; and the amount which will come from borrowing by Irish Water. [31650/16]

Housing Data

Eoin Ó Broin

259. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing units he expects to be delivered as a result of the additional €127 million allocated to local authorities in budget 2017; and the type of social housing he expects to be funded through this funding stream. [31753/16]

Social and Affordable Housing

Eoin Ó Broin

260. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional detail on the buy and renew scheme announced in budget 2017; if this will be available to all local authorities; and the number of units he expects this fund to deliver. [31754/16]

Social and Affordable Housing

Eoin Ó Broin

261. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional detail on the capital funding being provided to the Housing Agency in budget 2017; when this money will be made available to the agency; when they will be approved to start purchasing properties; the number of properties he expects to be purchased in 2017; if these will then be leased or purchased by councils or approved housing bodies; and the funding which will be used to secure these purchases or leases. [31755/16]

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Eoin Ó Broin

262. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of locations which will be eligible for the additional pyrite remediation scheme announced in budget 2017; and the details of areas to be funded. [31756/16]

Social and Affordable Housing

Eoin Ó Broin

263. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional details of the repair and leasing initiative announced in budget 2017; the local authorities that will be able to avail of this scheme; when it will open; and the number of units he anticipates it will deliver. [31757/16]

Traveller Accommodation

Eoin Ó Broin

264. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down by all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in 2015 and to date in 2016; and his plans for improving the drawdown of local authorities in 2017 as a result of the funding increase announced in budget 2017. [31758/16]

Community Development Initiatives

Eoin Ó Broin

265. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional details of the community facilities fund announced in budget 2017, including which local authorities will be able to avail of the fund; the measures on which they can spend this money; and the way in which they can apply for same. [31759/16]

Housing Adaptation Grant

Eoin Ó Broin

266. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the additional funding for housing grants will only be available to private homeowners; and his plans for tackling the backlog of private and social housing adaptation grants. [31760/16]

Community Services Programme

Eoin Ó Broin

602. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the decision to discontinue the community mothers scheme in a number of areas in Dublin was taken by her Department or by the local Tusla managers; the rationale for this decision; the number of these programmes that were in place in 2014, 2015 and 2016; the number of women that availed of the services provided by community mothers during these years; the number due to close from January 2017; the funding provided for these services; and if any replacement is to be provided when this service is closed. [31502/16]

Maternity Services Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

39. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the status of the roll out of the national maternity strategy; the number of staff required to ensure a full complement of maternity staff across the State; the number of staff that will need to be recruited by grade; the timeline for this recruitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30501/16]

Maternity Services Provision

Eoin Ó Broin

101. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the availability of the detailed 20 week routine scans for pregnant women on a hospital basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30502/16]

Equality Issues

Eoin Ó Broin

141. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the agency responsible for dealing with discrimination in cases of private rented accommodation is the Workplace Relations Commission. [30583/16]