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Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We get carried away with language. There is not a chance.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am being friendly.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps we should reset the tone of this conversation because I do not think any of us will benefit if we have a row. We are going to have some strong disagreements about the legislation but, just as we did with the Maritime Area Planning Bill and other significant Bills, we can have a rational conversation without trying to provoke each other. To respond directly to the Minister of State's...

Electoral Reform Bill: From the Seanad (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to put on the record that we will be back here at some point to deal with amending legislation. This Bill is going to end up in the courts. It is almost like a mirror image of the substitute consent legislation we will deal with shortly, the first version of which was not right and was rushed through at the end. That legislation was subject to significant legal challenge, which...

Electoral Reform Bill: From the Seanad (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: One way or another, the Bill is coming back to us. It is a shame it is being done in this manner.

Electoral Reform Bill: From the Seanad (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even the Ceann Comhairle is confused by that.

Electoral Reform Bill: From the Seanad (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: In speaking to this group of amendments, it not only confirms the concerns of the Deputies who spoke earlier but demonstrates how much worse it is than that. This was meant to be really important legislation. We have spent in committee a considerable amount of time working on a cross-party basis, probably more so than on any other legislation we have dealt with in this Oireachtas, to ensure...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Renters desperately need a break. Renters are paying rents that are far too high, and they are continuing to rise. Tenancies are increasingly insecure and there is a very significant rise in family homelessness, as evidenced in Dublin. The most recent daft.ierent register shows that the cost of an average rent for a whole year is €24,000. In Cork city, the Taoiseach's constituency,...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to put on the record my objection in the strongest possible terms both to the motion and, more important, to the way these amendments have been introduced at a very late stage with virtually no possibility of Oireachtas scrutiny. That is not only a breach of proper procedure, but it is also treating this House and its Members with appalling disrespect. More important, it shows...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken any analysis into the reasons for overturned planning decisions, specifically decisions in relation to large windfarms. [38178/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any analysis has been undertaken, including investigation of potential environmental damage or if any corrective actions have taken place in relation to windfarm sites at Derrybrein, Keeper Hill or Meenbog. [38179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has a forum through which concerned citizens and non-Governmental organisations can be briefed and raise concerns or make submissions directly to his Department in relation to potential environmental damage as a consequence of planning and development decisions. [38180/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will set out his social and affordable housing targets for each year from 2022 to 2026, in tabular form; the breakdown for each year by social housing new build, social housing acquisition, cost rental equity loan, Affordable Housing Fund purchase, Land Development Agency cost rental and Land Development Agency...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities make a percentage contribution to all social housing delivery streams including SHIP construction, turnkey construction and acquisitions; and if so, the percentage amount for each delivery stream. [38323/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new build social homes and acquisitions delivered in Q1 2022 broken down by local authority in tabular form; and if he will provide a separate table with the information broken down by delivery stream including SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, SHIP Part V, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, CAS Part V, CALF...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases delivered in Q1 2022 broken down by local authority area and providing an average annual lease cost per local authority in tabular form. [38325/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that he and his Department have taken in the past two years to address the issue of quarries producing defective material or block manufacturers producing defective blocks; the engagements he or his Department have had with the National Building Control Office and local building control authorities; the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total Government expenditure allocated for the first home shared equity scheme for 2022; the number of home purchases that the Government expects this total funding to facilitate in 2022; and the funding that has been approved for the scheme from the Government in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. [38447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 406. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when legislation that will enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to undertake inspections of direct provision centres will be before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if the Reception Conditions Directive 2013/33/EU is being considered in the process; if all direct provision centres will be covered...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The problem is that there is a void at the very heart of the Government's housing plan, which is the lack of an ambitious public housing delivery programme, based on the level of need that is out there. Even if the Government meets its social and affordable housing targets, which I do not believe it will, it will come nowhere close to meeting...