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Thu, 5 May 2016
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NAMA Social Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
125. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the National Asset Management Agency special purpose vehicle. detailed in the Social Housing Strategy 2020, including the names of the persons and organisations involved; the number of meetings held; the number of units produced via the special purpose vehicle; and the number of new tenancies created, since the special purpose vehicle was established. [9236/16]
Thu, 5 May 2016
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Housing Adaptation Grant Data
Eoin Ó Broin
126. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number and cost of housing adaptation grants provided, by grant type, and by the number of persons on the waiting lists, in each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9237/16]
Thu, 5 May 2016
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Emergency Accommodation Data
Eoin Ó Broin
127. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households, persons and children in emergency accommodation for more than six months, 12 months, 18 months, two years, four years and five years, in tabular form. [9238/16]
Thu, 5 May 2016
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Eoin Ó Broin
128. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the social housing new build projects he has agreed, but which have not yet been completed, by unit, by size and by number of bedrooms in tabular form. [9239/16]
Thu, 5 May 2016
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Homelessness Strategy
Eoin Ó Broin
129. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if involuntary long-term homelessness will be brought to an end by the end of 2016, as committed to in the Government's February 2013 homeless policy statement. [9240/16]
Thu, 5 May 2016
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Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
Eoin Ó Broin
130. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will proceed with annual housing needs assessments from 2016; and the additional resources he is making available to local authorities to deal with the significant administrative burden this will involve for them. [9241/16]
Thu, 5 May 2016
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Local Authority Staff Data
Eoin Ó Broin
131. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff and full-time equivalents working in local authority housing departments, by local authority in tabular form. [9242/16]
Thu, 5 May 2016
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Local Authority Staff Data
Eoin Ó Broin
132. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff and full-time equivalents working in local authority homeless sections by local authority in tabular form. [9243/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Social and Affordable Housing Funding
Eoin Ó Broin
57. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the borrowing restrictions in place for local authorities which wish to borrow money to exceed the social housing new build targets, as outlined in his Housing Strategy. [9042/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Social and Affordable Housing
Eoin Ó Broin
286. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider applications from local authorities for social housing new-build programmes of 50 units or more; and if there is a maximum development size he is willing to consider. [9043/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Social and Affordable Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
303. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the stages of the procurement process he and local authorities used for the provision of local authority housing from pre-planning through to construction; and the average length of time this process takes for any individual build project, based on all local authority new build housing projects that have been completed during 2014 and 2015. [9035/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Homeless Accommodation Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
304. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the fast-track planning and procurement process used in the rapid build projects in Poppintree in Ballymun in Dublin 11. [9036/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Homeless Accommodation Provision
Eoin Ó Broin
305. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if the fast-track procurement process used for the Ballymun rapid build project could be used for standard local authority social housing new builds, where Part 8 planning permission is already in place; and if not, the reason. [9037/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Housing Assistance Payment
Eoin Ó Broin
306. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment tenancies in place as of 1 April 2016, by new tenancies, and by existing tenancies, where the State subsidy has changed from rent supplement to housing assistance payment. [9038/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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NAMA Property Sales
Eoin Ó Broin
307. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the 2,000 properties transferred to social housing from the National Asset Management Agency or from National Asset Management Agency debtors that have been tenanted, as of 1 April 2016. [9039/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Eoin Ó Broin
308. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the progress of the targets for 2015 to 2018 announced on 1 April 2015 (details supplied), and the number of units delivered, that is tenanted on 1 April 2016, by local authority, in tabular form. [9040/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Eoin Ó Broin
309. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the details of the 13,000 keys handed over under the social housing strategy in 2015 and in 2016 to date, by tenancy type, including local authority new build, refurbishment, acquisition and re-let; new Part V allocation; approved housing body new build and relet; new and renewed tenancy under the rental accommodation scheme; new tenancy under the housing assistance payment scheme, old tenancy transferred from the rent supplement scheme to the housing assistance payment scheme, and any other tenancy type not included in this list. [9041/16]
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Water Charges Data
Eoin Ó Broin
318. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer if all moneys paid to Irish Water in domestic water charges up to 1 April 2016 were fully refunded by the State. [9140/16]
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
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Early Years Strategy Implementation
Eoin Ó Broin
241. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to set down the cost of implementing the recommendations of the interdepartmental group on future investment in early years and school-age care and education report regarding subvented child care provision in tabular form across all bands. [8390/16]
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
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Mayoral Election
Eoin Ó Broin
428. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the introduction of a directly elected mayor for the city and county of Dublin; and the work his Department has undertaken on this matter since the consultation with the four Dublin local authorities in 2013. [7997/16]