Eoin Ó Broin

566. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill and the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill; if he intends to publish these Bills before the summer recess; and whether he hopes to have the defects Bill undergo pre-legislative scrutiny before the recess and the Housing Bill introduced for second stage before the recess. [25952/25]

567. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the supplementary estimate for housing will be published and brought to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. [25953/25]

571. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide further details regarding the Housing Activation Office, including the number of people on its staff, the organisations to be represented, the names of those appointed/seconded to date in 2025, the powers and functions of the office and whether the head of office will be appointed through the Public Appointments Service. [26003/25]

572. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of full-time equivalent staff funded by his Department in planning authorities, broken down by local authority and An Bord Pleanála, in tabular form; and whether all of these posts are currently filled, and where not, the number of vacancies that exist in each planning authority where funding has been provided for his Department. [26005/25]

599. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection the further supports that are available to individuals in receipt of the State pension and a half rate carer's allowance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25418/25]

602. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection the options under the school meals scheme for children with diagnosed medical conditions relying on strict dietary routines; if such children were considered in the design and roll out of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25549/25]

603. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection if input from metabolic dieticians will be sought in the review of the nutritional values of the school meals scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25550/25]

641. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice to provide an update on the updated regulations arising for sections 18 and 19 of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; to provide a copy of the draft regulations; and to provide a timeline for when they will be introduced. [25933/25]

709. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice the functions being transferred from his Department to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and when these functions will be transferred. [25930/25]

884. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic surgeons currently working at Tallaght University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25950/25]

885. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting orthopaedic surgery in each hospital, in tabular form; and the measures planned to alleviate waiting lists for surgery under this speciality. [25951/25]

1. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the delayed Department approvals for social and affordable housing. [24903/25]

4. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will reverse the decision to cut funding for social housing acquisitions, including housing first and the tenant in situ schemes. [24905/25]

14. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to urgently review the cut in funding for the social housing acquisition programmes, given its negative impact on key homeless schemes like tenant in situ and housing first. [24433/25]

17. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that no affordable homes will be delivered in phase 1A of the Poolbeg West strategic development zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24432/25]

19. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Government missed its new-build social, affordable purchase and cost-rental targets in 2024; to set out what he intends to do to ensure the targets for 2025 are not missed; and to confirm what those targets are for new-build social, affordable purchase and cost rental. [24436/25]

33. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that the €1 billion of funding for Uisce Éireann in budget 2025 was not additional money; and to set his response to the utility's request for an additional €2 billion in capital funding out to 2030, including €1.7 billion for urban capacity upgrades and €300 million for rural capacity upgrades, to facilitate the Government's revised housing targets. [24435/25]

55. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the interim remediation scheme for fire safety defects; and for an update on the legislation for the wider remediation scheme for homes with Celtic tiger-era defects. [24434/25]

238. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the source of the non-voted €490 million allocated to Uisce Éireann under the heading 'internal’ (income-own resources) in the published Revised Estimates for 2025; if this funding is intended to be spent in 2025 exclusively or if it is to be spent over a number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24982/25]

239. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the source of the non-voted €514 million allocated to Uisce Éireann under the heading 'external’ (borrowings-EU receipts) in the published Revised Estimates for 2025; if this funding is intended to be spent in 2025 exclusively or if it is to be spent over a number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24983/25]

240. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the total expenditure allocated to Uisce Éireann for its public capital programme in each of the past five years, broken down by voted Exchequer and non-voted other sources, in tabular form. [24984/25]

101. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 245 and 247 of 3 April 2025, if Leitrim County Councils social housing acquisition budget for 2025 is €2 or €3 million. [24517/25]

575. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth when funding will be released for a new autism class at a school (details supplied); if a commitment will be provided that funds will be released at the earliest opportunity to ensure the unit is ready for the incoming class in September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23690/25]

655. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that there is a working group in Government looking at the future funding of the LDA; to confirm the persons on this group; the number of times the group has met and the dates of the meetings; the terms of reference of the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23166/25]

656. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if changes would be required to the Land Development Agency Act 2021 for the agency to deliver private houses on publican land or if this is already provided for in the current legislation. [23167/25]