Eoin Ó Broin

849. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable homes that were stalled awaiting approval from his Department at the start of January 2025, across how many schemes and in which local authority areas. [11151/25]

850. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of the 3,000 social and affordable homes that received Cabinet approval in February that will be delivered in 2025, 2026 and 2027; and to provide a breakdown of the units to be delivered each year, by type and funding stream. [11152/25]

851. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a supplementary estimate will be brought forward to revise the December 2024 estimate arising from the Cabinet memo allocating €450 million to the delivery of social and affordable housing; if so, when; and the amount allocated to each funding stream for 2025. [11153/25]

852. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when funding approval will be provided for all outstanding social and affordable project applications to his Department; and to provide a subsequent costing for these and timeline for delivery. [11154/25]

853. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable housing schemes granted approval by Cabinet in February 2025 that have been communicated to local authorities and approved housing bodies (AHB), providing a breakdown by AHB/local authority and the number of units in each scheme. [11155/25]

854. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if any capital advance leasing fund (CALF) or cost-rental equity loan (CREL)-funded projects currently under construction have had their staged CALF or CREL payments delayed; and if so, the number, including the total number of units, and for what reason. [11156/25]

855. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the 2025 social housing tenant-in-situ target, with a breakdown for each local authority area; if a circular communicating this and the new restrictions to the scheme has been issued to local authorities; if not, when it will be circulated; if he will commit to publishing the circular on his Department’s website; and if a risk assessment has been done regarding these new restrictions to determine the number of existing tenant-in-situ applications that may not now proceed due to the new restrictions. [11157/25]

856. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing tenant-in-situ purchases concluded in 2024, with a breakdown by local authority area, providing an average purchase cost for the total number of such acquisitions and an average for the acquisitions in each local authority area [11158/25]

859. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for emergency replacement of caravans or mobile homes that have been received by his Department since the recent storm Éowyn; and of these applications, the number that have been approved, rejected or still under consideration, by each local authority area, in tabular form. [11205/25]

860. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the process of application and assessment for emergency replacement of caravans and mobile homes; the general timeline for the application and assessment process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11206/25]

924. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the work his Department has undertaken since 2017 on each of the eight recommendations from chapter 5 of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services Report of April 2017 dealing with issues related to water conservation, in tabular form. [12003/25]

935. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on proposals to address the gearing challenges identified as a threat to future borrowing levels by approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12124/25]

936. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Exchequer funding for the Housing First scheme is separate to the acquisitions funding announced March 2025; the amount of funding allocated to Housing First in 2025; and the reason his Department is preventing approved housing bodies from utilising capital assistance leasing funding for Housing first Acquisitions. [12125/25]

958. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the provisions in Circular 06/2024 - Arrangements for Social Housing Acquisitions which has resulted in approved housing bodies being unable to access capital advance leasing funding to acquire homes for those experiencing homelessness. [12504/25]

960. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage about the impact of water consumption by data centres on water supply; his views on the impact of this consumption on water supply during periods when Uisce Éireann is encouraging water conservation; and if he will publish, or request Uisce Éireann to publish, the volume of water consumption by data processing centres, by local authority area. [12591/25]

964. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will next update the Basic Unit Costs (BUCs) and the Acquisition Cost Guidelines (ACGs) for social housing; if these same measures are applied to affordable housing delivered via cost rental equity loan, CREL and the affordable housing fund, AHF; and if he will give a commitment to make the revised BUCs and ACGs available to Deputies, on publication.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12652/25]

985. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of developer provided infrastructure projects nationwide that fall outside the scope of circular PL5/14 of November 2014 and the agreed memoranda of understanding in terms of the transfer of water services infrastructure assets within the estates to Uisce Éireann, by local authority area, in tabular form. [12830/25]

1328. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the case of a preschool service (details supplied) which has been advised it may have no premises for the 2025/2026 school year and beyond; if there is support and assistance available from her Department to ensure the preschool remains open, given the vital service provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10975/25]

1382. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the intended withdrawal of a childcare facility from the core funding agreement (details supplied); the actions being taken by the Department to ensure this can be avoided given the number of children and families relying on the service and given the commitments to lessen the financial burden of childcare on parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11557/25]

1412. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the support services available to children and young people with autism and their families in Dublin Mid-West, excluding services provided by the CDNT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12076/25]

1448. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in a CDNT being moved into a primary care centre (details supplied); if the move is still intended; when it is scheduled to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12829/25]

1479. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health for an update on the public health nurse network in the Dublin mid-west area, to include current staff employed and current staff vacancies, in tabular form. [10614/25]

1480. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will instate a review into the impact of the cessation of developmental checks for all children under the national healthy childhood programme in Dublin mid-west, in order to assess the real consequences of the lack of service provision to all children in the constituency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10615/25]

1629. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the options for support available to persons wishing to obtain and train a medical alert assistance dog for emergencies relating to certain medical issues (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11370/25]

182. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has engaged with stakeholders in relation to the situation whereby grid constraints from the excessive data centre demand are negatively impacting the connection of housing to the electricity network. [10348/25]