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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I invite the following question and think I know the answer. Am I correct to say that Part M does not allow almost all of what Ms Carthy has described?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: So that everyone listening to this debate is clear, or people who will listen to this debate or read the transcript, who recommended those standards because they are not in Part M of the building regulations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister were to conduct a review, what do the witnesses want from such a review? How do those standards relate to what seems to me to be a sensible breakdown in the operation of Part M across the water in terms of the three categories of dwellings? Do those two sets of things relate or are they two different sets of standards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: So get rid of the minimum standard stipulated in Part M.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a further question, with the indulgence of the Chair. Do design manuals exist? Are they available? Is there good practice? The Department always tells us it is very busy and has lots of things to do. As approved housing bodies, organisations for persons with disabilities are doing some of this. How difficult would it be to put these design standards into the manual as part of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Something we have not spoken about, but it has been mentioned twice, is exemptions for build-to-rent housing. A large proportion, approximately 40%, of new apartments that have received planning permission in Dublin are built to rent. What standard must they comply with if they do not have to comply with the minimum standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: This means they all have to be compatible with Part M but those apartments built to rent do not have the option of the additional 10%. I presume not all planning applications that use the build-to-buy design standards from the manual avail of the extra 10%. Do we know whether this is the case? We probably do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It could be in gross floor area.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shameful. Scraping the barrel, Tánaiste. Shame on you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Anything to avoid the question. Your housing crisis, your health crisis, your childcare crisis.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Anything to avoid the question, a Cheann Comhairle. I am being provoked again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Like they see the housing disaster.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. No allegation was made.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will choose my words very carefully and the Deputy will have an opportunity to respond.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is-----

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a political charge-----

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I can finish, I will take the advice of the Ceann Comhairle. I can say without question that every cent that was spent on my last election campaign was fully in accordance with the law, and every cent I have spent in my constituency organisation on ensuring I will get elected in the next general election was spent in a manner fully in accordance with the law. If individual members of...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me be very clear-----

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me be very clear. I have no knowledge of Deputy McAuliffe's constituency financing. I am not making any inference about what he has or has not done or what moneys he has or has not benefited from; what I am saying is that if it is the case that €500,000 that Fianna Fáil raised last year under the April–May lottery licence was raised outside the lotteries Act, and...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----nor the Minister of State has answered any of the fundamental questions we are asking. That is very regrettable because, if they had, the issues might have been put to bed and we could have moved on. Instead, we are having a row about an issue that should not even have come to the floor of the Dáil today. We should have been dealing with the substance of the Bill and the...