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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Response to National Emergencies: Irish Water (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. On the management and timing of the information which was released, I understand there was a fear, both in Irish Water and the Department, that if people were alerted too early, it could lead to the hoarding of water which, in turn, could have created shortages of supply. I accept that is reasonable. Has there been any assessment, however, of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Response to National Emergencies: Irish Water (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What Mr. Grant is saying is that the additional use of water was overwhelmingly attributable to leaks of various sorts, be they private, commercial or public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is possibly the biggest infrastructure project in the history of the State. It is right that the committee should try to scrutinise it to the greatest possible extent. We all want to do the right thing in our engagements here and with the various parties involved and we are approaching it on that basis. I acknowledge the extent to which Mr. Grant, Mr. Quinn and their staff have made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has the Government given a timeline for the legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would Irish Water do it more speedily if resources were made available from central Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: If there is a screw-up, Mr. Quinn is the person who has to explain to us why it happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Supply Project: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: When Mr. Grant appeared before us earlier, the impression we got was that the preference was for a fully State-funded scheme. When Mr. Quinn and the committee last met, he said that there might be other options, for example, a public-private partnership. Where does that discussion with the Government stand?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (25 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing first tenancies created in 2017; the number of housing first tenancies created in the first quarter of 2018; and the number of housing first tenancies in operation by local authority area and by region. [18249/18]

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: To reiterate Deputy Kenny's point, none of us should be here. More importantly, hard-working CE supervisors should not have to take time away from their families to travel up to the Dáil to listen to this debate. As all the Deputies who have spoken from the Opposition benches have made clear, we are here because we have a Labour Court recommendation which explicitly sets out what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman. I do not mind waiting until the end because the discussion has been very interesting. I appreciate that part of Ms Hurley and Ms Spillane's job is to present the best possible picture of what their Departments are doing. I am also aware that they are extremely limited by resources. The reality, however, for many older people in almost all of our constituencies is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Moving on to the officials from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, I do not want to go too much into the adaptation grants because in some senses part of the Chair's report will be about much bigger items than that. The amount of €60 million odd is nowhere close to the demand that exists. In my local authority, and we are not unique in this, one can have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would be shocked if Ms Hurley could name a single instance in the greater Dublin region where that has happened in the past five years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do we know the total percentage of new units that go to older people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they ever happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Department apply the concept of universal design only to a certain percentage of dwellings because it covers a wide spectrum of things that could be built into the design of a property? Could there be elements of universal design in an increasing number of dwellings, with a percentage having an even higher level of universal design? The two are not mutually incompatible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. O'Mahony believe that the demographic studies should be a planning requirement or a planning requirement for developments of a certain size?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that a weekly figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Department also track for how long the discharge is delayed? As well as the numbers of people, does the Department have a sense of how long the wait is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Mary Hurley is well used to this. We have her in every week.