Results 13,001-13,020 of 15,379 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the quality standards and inspection regime for all emergency accommodation. [26816/18]

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I warmly welcome the motion, which Sinn Féin enthusiastically supports. While I thank the Minister of State for attending, it is disappointing that neither the Minister for Health or the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government were available given the importance of the issue. Perhaps one or other of them might be in the House to wrap up the debate. I echo the comments...

Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Direct Provision Independent Inspection Bill 2018: First Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health Act 2007 to grant the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) the power to inspect all emergency homeless accommodation funded by the Department of Housing, Planning and Community and Local Government. The Act also grants HIQA the power to inspect direct provision centres funded by the Reception and...

Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Direct Provision Independent Inspection Bill 2018: First Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part 8 local authority social housing units that have been built in counties Longford and Westmeath in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [26348/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Short-Term Letting (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding plans to regulate the short-term letting sector. [26526/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to secure the reclassification of approved housing bodies, AHBs, as non-Government sector; the details of all meetings held with the AHB sector; the details of all meetings with the Department of Finance; his plans to reverse the recent EUROSTAT reclassification of the AHB sector; and if it is policy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the data working group and its plans to produce an agreed methodology for counting new home construction. [26528/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of social housing units delivered in 2017 by schemes (details supplied) in tabular form. [26669/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital allocation for 2018 for schemes (details supplied) in tabular form. [26670/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in 2016 and 2017 under the repair and lease and the buy and renew schemes, in tabular form; the expenditure in each year for each scheme; the number of homes acquired via the Housing Agency in 2017 and to date in 2018; and the cost of these houses in each of these years. [26696/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part V units delivered in each local authority area in 2017, in tabular form; and the average cost of those units in each area. [26697/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Berney for his presentation. It is important that the Oireachtas committee is having this debate, both in the session we had with Irish Water and the Department previously and this session with the unions. It is important we make it clear that it is not the business of this committee to get involved in the industrial relations issues and the negotiations that will take place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Berney. I have some supplementary questions. Leaving aside what Irish Water has or has not proposed, knowing the water services sector as Mr. Berney does, what does he think will be the impact of removing 1,000 full-time equivalent staff by 2021? Do the unions have a view on the future reconfiguration of the utility and Irish Water moving towards becoming a non-commercial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked about the idea of Irish Water being a non-commercial semi-State body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the submissions they sent in earlier and for appearing before the joint committee today. A number of Deputies on the committee had indicated to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, when he brought the heads of the Bill before us, that we were mindful to support and to assist him in trying to get the legislation through before the end of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have no regulations for short-term letting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no proposed legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have suggestions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not wish to pick a fight but none of those is in our committee recommendations.