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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Rates (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his response and the clarification. I accept that the valuation process is fully independent and the consequences for the local authorities arise from that. What contacts have there been between the Minister of State and all of the eight local authorities that are going to experience a significant loss of revenue arising from the revaluation? Could the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing a one stop shop for homeowners who discover latent defects that would provide information, advice, mediation and adjudication to ensure that, in the first instance, the developer responsible for the defects covers the remediation. [51758/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the summary of the 2019 social housing needs assessment. [51755/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the most up-to-date figures on the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the number of loans applied for; the number of loans approved; the number drawn down; and the average loan amount in the three categories. [51757/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to fund the affordable cost-rental project in St Michael’s Estate, Inchicore, Dublin 8; and if the rents can be brought below €900 per month. [51756/19]

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I listened very carefully to the Minister and the Minister of State. The question many renters, if they are watching this debate, will be asking is how much longer does the Government want us to wait. The Minister of State will remember when the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Coveney, introduced the rent pressure zones. He made two clear commitments, first, that rents in high rent areas would...

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We need affordable apartments.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rents have increased by 24% in three years.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin asked the Minister to do that in 2016.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has the Minister taken advice from the Attorney General on it?

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will do our best.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is this the standard of debate in the House?

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. The Minister is misleading the House. Our party was not opposed to-----

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Cathaoirleach, he is misleading the House.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Thanks to Deputy Noonan and his delay. Thanks to Fine Gael Ministers blocking that Bill.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amend the Bill.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In our alternative budget if the Minister bothered to read it. Two years in a row we published-----

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." As everybody in this Chamber knows, rents are completely out of control. A quick look on daft.ietoday confirms this. In Cork city, the cost of renting a standard two-bedroom home is €16,000 per year. In Lucan, which is in my constituency, the cost is an astonishing €24,000. Across the electoral boundary, in Castleknock in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Page 127 of the programme for Government promises to invest additional capital to fund major public transport projects and to fund additional capacity to meet existing and future commuter needs. Today is the deadline for public submissions on the second draft of the BusConnects plan. Many of us in this House will have made detailed submissions to try to improve the final product. However,...