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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who comes off the pandemic unemployment payment for short-term seasonal work should reapply for the pandemic unemployment payment or the jobseeker's allowance when the seasonal work comes to an end. [32480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of family income supplement and the pandemic unemployment payment has their family income supplement renewed, if her Department has been instructed to withdraw the family income supplement as the person was not in employment at the time of the renewal or if they can have their family income supplement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) who had been offered and accepted a CSO college offer subsequently had that offer removed, despite the fact that fees had been paid; if such a withdrawal is permitted by his Department; and if it will be ensured the person does not lose their college place. [32589/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1232. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration was given to allowing outdoor fitness classes to continue under level 5; and if he will consider allowing gyms to operate under tighter parameters if required to facilitate individual training. [32728/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received and the decisions made for licences for felling, afforestation, forest road works or aerial fertilisation by month in tabular form; the number of decisions appealed; the outcome of those appeals as set out in section 4 of the Forestry Act 2020 which inserted section 14B(13) of the Agriculture...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of progress made to date on the implementation of the Forestry Act 2020;and the schedule for implementing same. [32441/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I commend the work of Home for Good. It is a really good alliance and initiative to try to bring this issue to the next level. I acknowledge the good campaigning work of other networks, such as Raise the Roof, which has been strongly arguing for such a constitutional referendum. As committee members will know, Sinn Féin has long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will let them decide who can best respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect, is it not Sinn Féin after Fianna Fáil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We skipped Labour in the first round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It depends on the Attorney General.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to make a brief comment and a suggestion. Something very significant has happened in this meeting today. This is the first time in my five years in the Oireachtas that a clear majority of the housing committee has spoken in favour of the holding of a referendum to enshrine the right to housing in the Constitution. That is really significant. I say that while not in any way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Chairman support my suggestion?

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, line 6, after "regulations" to insert the following: ", including restrictions on the number or type of persons who can enter a dwelling, in order to limit the spread of Covid-19 or". As I said at the outset, one of the weaknesses of the Bill is that the eviction ban is limited in its applicability to the triggering of the 5 km travel restriction by...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be pressing the amendment.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, we can wait. That is okay.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment seeks to do what the very eminent Deputy O'Dowd proposed, and what Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and I are seeking to do, which is to introduce a six-month ban on evictions. I want to briefly address the issue of the Constitution and the advice of the Attorney General. As you will know as a legal professional, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, there is not a unified school of thought on...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(4) Notwithstanding the interpretation contained in section 1(2), sections 2, 3 and 4 shall also apply to such persons living in dwellings with written license agreements, verbal license agreements and informal rent-a-room arrangements.”. This is a straightforward amendment. One of the...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “2. (1) An emergency period in relation to the tenancy of a dwelling shall be a period of at least six months from the enactment of this Act.”. Again, this amendment is self-explanatory.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It seeks to do what the eminent and-----