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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State says this Bill is removing power from the Minister. There is not a single power removed from the Minister in the Bill or in any of the amendments. In fact, both the Bill, as we have discussed at length on Committee and Report Stages, and these amendments give additional powers to the Minister. It is not that it is our view as Opposition Deputies that we do not want...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Really?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I oppose amendments Nos. 18, 23 and 28. I have a couple of contextual points. I will repeat my central criticism of the Bill that I have been making since we first debated it almost two years ago, that the way in which the planning regulator is designed and would be set up in this Bill is absolutely contrary to the spirit and to the letter of the Mahon tribunal recommendation. Mahon was...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am okay. The Ceann Comhairle made my point.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not in the legislation.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Increasingly our debates in the Chamber on housing are becoming acrimonious. It is because the gap is growing ever wider between the Government's delivery in meeting housing needs and the rhetoric of Rebuilding Ireland. When Home Building Finance Ireland was announced in last year's budget I was taken by the idea that if done right it has the potential to be a positive contribution...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the delegates for the presentations. It is eight months since the "RTÉ Investigates - Nightmare to Let" documentary was broadcast and the Dáil unanimously supported a motion, of which one of the central recommendations was the introduction of a system analogous to the national car test, NCT. While the "RTÉ Investigates" programme obviously showed the very extreme end...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They will follow a first offence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, which is why I am asking if we should consider changing the law.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important that we work with up-to-date data. The difficulty with the data on the Department's website is that the most up-to-date data on the private rental figures is 2013-2014. If there are more up-to-date data, perhaps the Department could forward them on. I assume that the most up-to-date data are the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, annual performance and indicator...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: All of that is very positive but my core question is, on the basis of the NOAC report, when maintenance, rent administration and the community functions are added together, the total cost for all the local authorities is still less than the total rent that is collected. Is rental income being diverted into other areas of service delivery or is all the rental income remaining within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can Mr. Walsh give his own case as an example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: While I do not disagree with most of what Ms Carroll said, there has been nothing in the discussion that could be construed as anti-landlord. In fact, having a strong NCT-type system is good for compliant landlords because it prevents what we hope is the majority of compliant landlords being undercut by rogue traders. We had this type of conversation with the Irish Property Owners...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 145. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when a person (details supplied) will receive their 1916-2016 commemorative medal as a member of the Defence Forces. [29513/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the targets for social and affordable housing in each of the years 2018 to 2027; and the estimated capital spending targets required to deliver the social and affordable housing targets for the same period in tabular form. [29563/18]

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On behalf of the Sinn Féin group, I thank Deputy Wallace for introducing the Bill, which we warmly support. What is important about this debate is that it addresses problems with the private housing market, which are, of course, the price of houses and the rate of supply. Whenever the Government is responding to these issues, it keeps telling us that supply is the answer and if it can...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (3 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost to the Exchequer of the rent tax credit for each year the credit was in operation; and the corresponding number of claimants of the tax relief for each of the years in tabular form. [29166/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (3 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to an academic study (details supplied); and his plans to apply the findings of the study to cattle feed to reduce the levels of methane generated by live cattle stock. [28794/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (3 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of buy and renew units delivered in past 12 months; and the average cost for each unit. [28876/18]