Results 11,001-11,020 of 15,312 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has received a request from Dublin City Council to approve and fund the acquisition of units of accommodation from a development by a company (details supplied) for the purposes of providing affordable cost-rental accommodation; if so, the details of the funding request; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the inclusion of African history, colonial history and the history of slavery in the junior cycle curriculum in order to enhance students understanding of world history and the parallels between Irish history and that of the developing world. [18254/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Covid-19 rent supplement claimants that are also on the full rate pandemic unemployment payment and on the reduced rate payment, respectively. [18417/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 705. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the allocation made for domestic emergency refuges and step-down accommodation for 2020. [18159/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 764. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda station that covers Liscarne Dale, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [18173/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 942. To ask the Minister for Health when the enabling legislation raising the threshold for medical card eligibility for over 70 years of age will be in place. [18198/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 941. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the awarding of a licence to access medical cannabis to a person (details supplied). [18180/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shared Accommodation (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The views of the Minister on this matter are well known. I will remind the House of remarks he made a year ago, almost to the day. He described the policy as "bonkers" and stated that Fine Gael was out of touch for trying to pursue it. He stated that Fine Gael should scrap co-living and that if Deputies Varadkar and Eoghan Murphy wanted this bonkers policy so much, they should live...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: This will be very important legislation. I assure the Minister that I have kept a very careful record of everything he stated on this issue at the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government. We will compare the legislation with the comments he made. The key issues are whether the LDA will be a designated activity company, whether it will be fully subject to freedom of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I am entitled to do.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Funding (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated rates and non-rates funding shortfall for local authorities in 2020; and if he will fully meet this shortfall in order that local authorities do not have to cut staff or services due to the loss of income during the Covid-19 pandemic. [17910/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. The problem is that there are two ways of addressing this issue. The first is that houses are built and sold at cost price and, in that scenario, the price can be determined at the outset. The alternative is to take a market price at a discount, but that discount must be repaid. That second model is of shared equity, as the Minister has just mentioned. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concern is that the Minister is evading the question. I am not talking about delivery streams, I am talking about the fundamental principle of what constitutes affordability. There is a universally accepted distinction in the industry between building homes and selling them at the cost of building them, and thereby getting genuine affordability, or allowing the market to dictate a price...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: What the Minister has said is not true. He should read the proposal.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nor will Sinn Féin.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Which model of delivery is the Government going to pursue?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if shared equity will be considered in his approach to affordable housing; and if the purchase prices he has quoted recently in the media are inclusive or exclusive of the shared equity stake to be acquired by the State. [17909/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will announce the detail of his affordable housing scheme in September, I will not ask him to reveal the detail of it. I have a concern that he seems to have two different and competing definitions of what constitutes affordable housing. During the election campaign he correctly called for affordable homes to be delivered at a cost of €250,000 or less, a position...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (23 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to put in place to address the rent arrears debt burden arising from tenants falling behind in their rent due to Covid-19 temporary lay-offs. [17908/20]