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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Irish Water and the Department for all the information provided so far. I want to broaden the discussion a little to water and wastewater quality. It is a bit disappointing that the Department did not include in its opening statement an update on the ongoing European Commission enforcement for our failure to meet adequate wastewater treatment standards at a number of locations. As...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to go back to a question asked by Senator Malcolm Byrne in respect of Gorey. When there were not dissimilar problems at the Leixlip wastewater treatment plant in October 2019, one of the issues was the non-detection of several alarms. The EPA was very critical of that when its representatives came before the committee in December that year. As Irish Water is now going to conduct a...

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I commend Deputy Bacik and Senator Moynihan on bringing forward the Bill. It is very good legislation and it has the enthusiastic support of Sinn Féin.

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before commenting on the Bill, I wish to respond to some of the comments by members of the Government yesterday and today. During a similar and related debate yesterday, the Tánaiste stated that one person's rent is another person's income and that it was important for the Government to strike a balance between the needs and rights of landlords and those of tenants, a comment echoed...

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, the proposition the Deputy has made is sound. It is really positive that the Bill deals with issues of adequacy and standards. Deputy Bacik is absolutely right to reference the report by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, on housing adequacy and particularly looking at the groups of people systemically disadvantaged...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, for his response. First, I find it hard to believe that the reason that the Government is not opposing this Bill is because it hopes to see it receiving pre-legislative scrutiny in a committee. There is a long list of Opposition Bills that have passed Second Stage in the previous Dáil and in this Dáil and Government Members so...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has done it again. Once more, he promised one thing very loudly, brashly and publicly, but unfortunately delivered something very different. He promised he would increase the provision in Part V of the Planning and Development Act to ensure all new housing developments would deliver not only the 10%...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The more I listen to the Taoiseach, or the Tánaiste - excuse me, it is so confusing trying to know who is who in this Government - the more I realise he actually does not understand it. He said the Government has introduced a rent freeze in real terms. When the legislation was introduced inflation was at 1.9%. It then rose to 2.2% and it is now at 3%. Today in the Irish Independent,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: So publish the report. Let people judge for themselves.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Too little, too late.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rents are rising too dramatically.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: What happens is renters suffer under your Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Dishonesty on your part has to be corrected on the floor of the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am probably the least aggressive Deputy in this House, with the greatest of respect.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: By standing up for renters, bringing rents down and delivering affordable housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Those people tell the truth, Tánaiste - not like you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

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

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: In June 2016, as a newly elected Deputy to this House, the first Bill that I brought forward sought to link rent reviews to inflation. In that year, rents across the State rose by an alarming 14% and in Dublin by 15%. Some families were being hit with rent increases in the order of 20%. Unable to pay, they were forced into homelessness and despite the growing crisis in the rental sector,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the research that has been conducted by his Department into the carbon emissions embedded in the materials used to retrofit homes; and the timeframe for them to be offset by the associated energy savings. [44534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (21 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when projects on the 4th Projects of Common Interest will cease to benefit from having PCI accreditation. [44535/21]