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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Fianna Fáil will get to decide this one. There will be legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not qualified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I note that the SHD legislation provides that on the outcome of the review the Minister may, by way of an order, extend the period up to 2021. I ask that the clerk to the committee clarify prior to the next meeting whether that order, which is made under the Planning and Development Act, needs the approval of the committee. Ordinarily, such an order is made by way of a motion that we cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (17 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of requests from local authorities for additional resources and staff to deal with the enforcement of the new short-term letting regulations; the amount granted to each local authority; and the date from which those resources can be drawn down in tabular form. [42817/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability and Growth Pact (16 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact of spending on social housing being classified as investment rather than expenditure as part of the EU fiscal rules; and the engagements he has had with the European Commission or EU Council of Ministers to make the case for such a reclassification to assist the State in dealing with the ongoing housing crisis. [42390/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (16 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he or his officials have had with the European Commission on the general scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019; the nature, frequency and substance of this engagement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42389/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Fund (16 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the €27 million reduction to local government as detailed in budget 2020. [42483/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the useful presentations. There are many good suggestions in terms of amendments that some of us are considering for the legislation. They probably know, if they paid attention to the previous hearings, or they will get a clear sense from the discussion today, that we are in a bit of a dilemma in this committee. We all want the Land Development Agency and we all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Ms Myler send the submission to the committee? It would certainly be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Was that value from the sale of the land and the use of it?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Projects (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is an incredibly frustrating response because it sidesteps the core issue about which we are asking. If there are governance concerns, they need to be resolved. We are not questioning that. However, up until the end of the last school year, 120 children received services - such as homework assistance, recreational development activities, and breakfast club - through the Get Ahead Club...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Projects (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is the parents who are raising the issue.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Projects (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Get Ahead Club is a community-based education charity in north Clondalkin that attempts to achieve educational equality, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It has provided a variety of very valuable services such as breakfast clubs, homework clubs and other developmental and recreational supports and activities since 1994 for about 120 children per year. Our...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason 1 November 2019 was chosen as the date of eligibility for the new parental leave scheme as detailed in the Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019; if an earlier or retrospective date was considered during drafting to allow all parents with a child in its first year to avail of the scheme; and when it will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if members of the drugs squad are no longer operating out of the Garda station in Clondalkin, Dublin 22; when the last remaining members of the drugs squad were removed from that station; the number of drugs squad personnel and the rank of each stationed in the station in each of the years 2007 to 2018 and to date in 2019;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2020 (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the budget 2020 allocation to each programme or scheme within his Department. [42082/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ongoing revaluation of rateable properties taking place across many local authorities is planned to be revenue neutral for each local authority; if so, if a mechanism will be applied to ensure such councils return to a revenue neutral status in view of the fact that many successful appeals to the Valuation Tribunal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the opening statement is taken as read, have we resolved the matter of whether it will appear in the Official Report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask because recently we took some statements as taken as read and they did not appear in the Official Report. We generally prefer to take them as read, but we do not want to lose out on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the clerk to the committee find out what happened to it? Will the clerk to the committee find out what happened to that? We do not want to lose the value of having Mr. Dunne's words of wisdom on the record-----