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Overcrowded Housing Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Casey for introducing the Bill. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy English. I accept that his commitment to introduce amendments to deal with this issue is genuine. The issue of overcrowding in our housing stock is very significant. It is important to acknowledge that it is now two years since the documentary "RTÉ Investigates - Nightmare to Let" showed some of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (14 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the reply. It is important to acknowledge in the figures in the report that while there has been progress, if one scratches beneath the surface it shows that although a number of urban areas are coming off the list of those in breach of the urban wastewater directive and therefore subject to the European Commission's legal action, the volume of the waste that is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (14 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister is aware, the Environmental Protection Agency published its urban wastewater treatment report for 2018 earlier this week. As with its predecessor reports in 2017 and 2016, it makes for very depressing reading. While there has been a marginal level of improvement in both the number and volume of untreated wastewater that is going into our rivers, lakes and seas, progress is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Professor Norris and her team for the report. I commend the group on turning around the report in a speedy timeframe given everybody was working in a voluntary capacity while also doing other work. However, I will express a degree of frustration, although not with anybody presenting to us. It is important to recall the origin of this expert group report was the report on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to respond in a constructive way to comments other committee members made. It is important to tease out this stuff but it is also important to acknowledge the Minister and his staff are paying close attention to this committee because implementing this report will be tricky and the Minister will not put himself out on a limb if he does not think he will get support for these measures....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: A new round of Traveller accommodation programmes has been agreed. If legislation was in train, the Minister and Oireachtas should say that local authorities have a choice to do this in the way the legislation originally set out, that they should start to process their plans appropriately through Part 8 applications. If local authorities do not do so, and there is clear evidence that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: For clarity, there would still be a Part 8 process and an opportunity for elected members and the public to be consulted. The only change proposed is for the decision on a Part 8 application to be an executive decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apart from that crucial change, the process will remain the same.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are not removing it but transferring it from the elected members to the executive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a very significant change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is an important point and we are engaging in important dialogue. With his significant experience in local authorities, the Deputy will know as well as I do that a manager is not going to bring forward a Part 8 application if he or she knows a majority of the elected members will not support it. That is the way Part 8 provisions work. In many local authorities managers often decided to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: But there were Part 8 proposals that were never put in front of the Deputy because management knew that they would not succeed.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 25 July 2019, if officials in the embassy in Colombia met with local human rights groups and visited a mine (details supplied); if so, when the report from the visit will be made available; and if not, the reason therefor. [46262/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 438. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the recent decision by a number of domestic bin collection companies to increase their annual standing charge and lift charge; the steps he plans to take to ensure that those on low incomes including pensioners are protected from such unregulated price increases; and the steps he is taking to see the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the recipients of partial capacity benefit ineligible to avail of the same range of training and upskilling supports offered to those in receipt of other social welfare payments; and her plans to extend supports to this group in the future. [46169/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the meetings he or his officials have had with Dublin City Council management or councillors since 7 October 2019 regarding a development (details supplied); and the additional funding requested and-or granted beyond the initial €10 million allocation from the serviced sites fund to assist an approved housing body...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As somebody who started out as a sceptic of the proposition in front of us, given everything I have heard in these meetings, I am probably now an outright opponent of the scheme as it is currently proposed. The bit of this project which I like, the active land management, will be far weaker than we need. The part with which I was always uncomfortable, that is, the residential development,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the important issue and it is an area where we may be in agreement. Part V of the Planning and Development Act allows the State to acquire units and the land value calculation on those is existing land use value, not the full market value. My main concern is that even if the LDA gets the CPO powers, in order to be fully compliant with state aid rules, in particular the requirement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that just mean it would be pushed up to pay the market price as opposed to existing land use value?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the added value of the LDA being involved in Shanganagh?