Results 5,041-5,060 of 15,697 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If it is representatively selected, one could actually get a very good sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us be very clear. I do not see any set of circumstances where we go back to the days where two or three political parties had the volume of people to do those independent verifications. I would love if that was possible but it is not. I think the point Mr. O’Leary is making is important. With that team of staff, so long as the staff know what they are looking for and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We support that fully. We have some of Europe's leading scholars in this area who spend a very significant amount of time in other jurisdictions relaying to their expertise. Exit studies have a huge value. Mr. O'Leary is absolutely right; any longitudinal study also needs to be able to talk to the people who do not vote. In the testimony we got from the political science community via Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Ryan will tell Mr. O'Leary we are not all bad at the committee; we are very constructive.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister and his staff for the briefing notes and explanation. I have a lot of questions about where the money is going and I might come back to some of those in the second round. The first thing I want to look at is where the money has come from. On the Revised Estimates sheet that we have been given, of the €586 million in additional money, €432 million is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am going to come back to that and I have queries around that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is all very interesting and some of it is what I would have come to, but it does not answer the first question. Again, I want to come to those other issues because they are important. There is within housing, at head A, an underspend of €432 million, which the Minister is then reallocating within the subhead, which I accept. We do not have the REV broken down by each individual...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not a trick question. It is just a run-through as to which subhead and how much of an underspend on each.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My apologies, the very first question, and it honestly is not a trick question, is this: in each of the revenue subheads, there is a portion of underspending which the Minister is now reallocating. What I am asking is where the non-spending is taking place.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there an underspend on that? That is what I am asking.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister does have-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Which subhead is that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Which is A15?