Results 9,401-9,420 of 27,055 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy's party opposed the establishment of the Land Development Agency.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Does Deputy Ó Broin agree with the CSO figure now?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I received Government approval on 18 January to draft legislation to establish supports for the remediation of fire safety, structural safety and water ingress defects in purpose-built apartment buildings, including duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013. This legislation will provide a statutory basis for the establishment of a remediation scheme aimed at protecting the safety and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The policy intent of developing a Cost Rental sector in Ireland is to support the housing needs of those on moderate incomes for whom high open market rents are unaffordable and who do not qualify for social housing supports. Under the Cost Rental model, rents are set to cover only the cost of financing, building, managing and maintaining the homes, while any properties that receive State...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92, 93 and 94 together. My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs. The grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant and the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 95, 96 and 105 together. Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies Board, or RTB, was established as a quasi-judicial independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2022 to regulate the rental sector; provide information to tenants and landlords; maintain a national register of tenancies; resolve disputes between tenants and landlords; and conduct research and provide information to inform policy. The remit...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as a quasi-judicial independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2022 (RTA), to operate a national tenancy registration system and to facilitate the resolution of disputes between landlords and tenants. My Department does not have the information sought. However, the Clerk of the Dáil requested that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity, including HAP and RAS, in all local authority areas, on the statistics page of its website. The data requested in the Question can be found at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provis ion/. The latest published figures are for Q3...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 100, 101, 102 and 104 together. The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Since 2014, Exchequer funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The ‘15 minute city’ concept gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic. The idea of the 15-minute city has been championed in particular by the Paris Mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to promote communities that are designed to enable people to access most of their daily needs within a 15-minute walk or bike journey from their homes. In the Irish context, planning through various...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in direct...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 establishes Construction Industry Register Ireland (CIRI), a statutory register for providers of building works. In January this year the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) was appointed as the statutory registration body for the Construction Industry Register Ireland. The main objective of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Tenants in the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme are required to sign a rent contribution agreement to pay a weekly rental contribution to the relevant local authority, in line with the local authority’s differential rent scheme. As set out in the rent contribution agreement, this weekly rental contribution must be paid by them so that they remain eligible for the HAP scheme. ...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: That is a fact.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: It is Sinn Féin short-termism versus the Government taking a responsible decision. We have seen a decrease in social housing waiting lists over that period of time. We will not be dissuaded or put away from the course we have-----

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----under Housing for All to deliver more social homes than we have done in generations-----

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----and we will continue to do that. Sinn Féin is acutely aware the measures it would ask other Deputies to pass this evening would make a very difficult situation a lot worse-----

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin just completely disregards that. Be honest with people.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: There will not be from this side.