Results 7,501-7,520 of 15,018 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of retrofitting local authority social homes with an air source heat pump, by local authority in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [27439/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the building energy ratings achieved by homes retrofitted through the Midlands Retrofit Programme in 2021 and 2022; and the reason for the underspend in addition to the Covid-19 pandemic. [27440/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority social homes that have been retrofitted to a building energy rating B2 or cost optimal equivalent through the Midlands Retrofit Programme, by local authority in tabular form. [27441/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, prior to their retrofitting under the Midlands Retrofit Programme in 2021 and 2022, by local authority; the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, after their retrofitting under the Midlands Retrofit Programme in 2021 and 2022, by local authority in tabular form; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 684 of 26 April 2022, the definition of deep retrofit and shallow retrofit as referenced in the document linked in the response; the average works completed under both shallow and deep retrofits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27443/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated carbon emissions savings from the Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme, annually from 2013 to date in tabular form. [27444/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated revenue yield from an increase in the derelict site levy to 20 percent in a full year. [27984/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to the Exchequer of a social home delivered through the buy-and-renew-scheme in the past 12 months. [28105/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to the Exchequer of a social home delivered through the acquisitions programme in the past 12 months and in 2019 and 2020. [28106/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the eligibility criteria for a course (details supplied) where the provider is stating one eligibility criteria while Solan is stating a different criteria. [27287/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 30: In page 28, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(4) Where the participation of an elector in an election or referendum is facilitated through their inclusion on the special voters list in the case of an illness or disability under section 17 of the Act of 1992, or under section 103 of the Act of 1992 as a result of an inability to vote without...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and will accept it so long as there is a clear commitment by the Government, and by the commission once it is established, to continue to review these matters. We need to make sure, whether it is in terms of assistance, the language of choice, an extension of postal proxy voting and so on, that there are no barriers put in people's way, unfairly or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that basis, I am happy to withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On amendment No. 70, I ask the Minister of State to explain the rationale for moving from 10,000 to 100,000.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not asking because I have a problem with the amendment; I am just trying to work out what kind of site it will affect. Social media platforms will not be captured by this change. Will it affect party political websites, for example? Was there something concrete in mind that led to the change in the threshold? I am not objecting to it but if there was not something concrete in mind,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The intention is not to capture a website such as a very small bespoke news site, for example.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support Deputy O'Callaghan in his amendment, the first part of which relates to an amendment of mine that was ruled out of order. I will speak to that and then to the other elements of the Deputy's amendment. The case for extending the right to vote to younger people is compelling. We spend a great deal of time speaking of concerns about how the participation rate of people aged 18 to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support Deputy Cian O’Callaghan’s amendments. One of the issues is that members of political parties are probably the last people who should be asked about which size constituencies they would like. If you are in a small party, of course you would prefer larger constituencies. If you are a larger party, for selfish strategic reasons, you might argue that you would like...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Deputy's party splitting?