Results 10,601-10,620 of 15,312 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding plans in place to assist Dublin Zoo and Fota Wildlife Park, which have suffered an income loss due Covid-19 restrictions. [40030/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the technical update of the Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities 2018 document in relation to co-living will be issued as Ministerial guidance under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). [40661/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will sign and publish the updated guidance document that includes a specific planning policy requirement on co-living; if this will effect an outright ban on co-living; and if planning authorities will have to have regard to this guidance when deciding on a co-living application submitted prior to the issuing of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the circular issued to local authorities and An Bord Pleanála on the issue of co-living following his announcement of a ban on such developments. [40033/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report by a person (details supplied) in relation to marine protected areas as part of the broader development of a marine planning framework will be published. [39831/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the complete list of institutes, centres and premises that are approved for EU trade in animals under EU Directive 92/65 laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the community of animals, semen, ova and embryos; if the list is publicly available on the website of his Department;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a portion of the 10% set aside for the greyhound care fund is in fact being ring-fenced to develop and maintain a traceability system for greyhounds, given that traceability is an operational cost for any industry; the reason care funds that are specifically for animal welfare purposes are being used to for operational matters;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 800. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the inspection procedures that have been set out for greyhound breeders to ensure they are in compliance with the greyhound Act 2011; and if the new greyhound racing industry code of practice will give clear guidance on inspection procedures and record keeping. [40038/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 801. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are criteria set out for the operation of greyhound care centres under the greyhound welfare fund; if inspections are carried out on the care centres, if not, the reason; the vetting process in place for those awarded contracts to operate care centres and greyhound retirement centres; and if there is a requirement for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhound breeders with fewer than five bitches; if there is no information on these breeders to date, if they will be included in the new traceability scheme; and if not, the reason. [40040/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Defects: Discussion with Construction Defects Alliance (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the two presentations. The issue of latent defects is a scandal. The committee has to understand the extent of the scandal. The previous committee did significant work and agreed unanimously on a good report in 2017, which set out clearly what we felt the Government needed to do in this area. It is not just bad builders and developers that caused the problems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Defects: Discussion with Construction Defects Alliance (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: To bring us back to basics, if any of us buy anything and we take it home and it is defective, the following day we bring it back to the shop and we either get it replaced or get our money back. This is a basic rule but not for the single most expensive purchase in people's lives. It beggars belief that we are even having this discussion. I am not at all criticising anybody here because...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Three weeks have now passed since the Tánaiste stood in this Chamber and told the House that he would be happy to provide any and all records relating to his passing of the IMO contracts to his friend and member of a rival organisation, the National Association of General Practitioners. In the same week, the Taoiseach told my party leader that his Department had an open door and that he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, we learned of two more tragic deaths in our capital city. In the early morning, a man in his 40s living in a tent in the shadow of Leinster House was found dead. He had been living there for some time. Later in the afternoon, another man died in accommodation run by a well-known charity. We do not know the full circumstances of these tragic deaths but it is clear that both men...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. We all remember that Mr. Jonathan Corrie died on 1 December 2014 while sleeping rough in a doorway opposite Dáil Éireann. The tragic death of the 43-year-old father of two caused widespread public concern and anger. His daughter, Natasha, told RTÉ in an interview that, in her view, those in power failed her father. She said: "He...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (26 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average turnaround for refurbishing vacant houses owned by local authorities in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Longford and Westmeath on an annual basis since January 2018 to October 2020; the annual budget available from January 2018 to October 2020 made available to these counties for restoring council-owned...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (26 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount requested from counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Longford and Westmeath from the repair and lease scheme and buy and renew scheme since January 2018 to date in 2020; and the number of private properties that have been bought by local authorities to rehouse persons in these counties through the repair and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual budget allocated to counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Longford and Westmeath in each of the years 2018 to 2020 to provide for Traveller housing accommodation; the percentage of that funding spent annually in each of these counties on the provision of accommodation for members of the Traveller community; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the report of his Department into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal; and the action he plans to take on foot of its findings. [39452/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (25 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names and biographies of the two recent appointees to the board of the National Oversight and Audit Commission. [39078/20]