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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am pleased to be able to speak in support of this important legislation. To give some background on where I stand, I do not know much about transport policy as it is not an area in which I have expertise or experience. I do not have a driving licence or drive a car, I am not a publican and I do not live in a rural area. However, I have closely followed this debate since the issue entered...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (17 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 199. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the funding difficulties being faced by a centre (details supplied) and the difficulties the centre faces in 2018 operating on its budget; and if she will request Tusla to re-examine the funding allocation for the centre for 2018 and 2019 with a view to increasing the funding level to a more appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Visiting Committees (16 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will publish the 2016 visiting committee's reports on Irish prisons. [1333/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (16 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has concluded his negotiations with a group (details supplied) on the issue of increasing the subventions to the schemes; and if so, his plans to include the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government in this discussion prior to finalising changes to the existing scheme. [54477/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (16 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the stock of social housing in each of the years 2010 to 2017, by local authority; and the stock owned by local authorities and approved housing bodies respectively, in tabular form. [54642/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (16 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1744. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact that reclassification of tier 3 approved housing bodies as on the Government balance sheet in early 2018 would have on the Government debt, Government expenditure and capital spending plans in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and social housing construction and acquisition targets in each of the years 2018 to 2021;...

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In all of our minds today are the people who will spend Christmas in emergency accommodation and, in particular, the more than 3,000 children who will wake on Christmas morning in hotels, bed and breakfast accommodation, hubs or other forms of emergency accommodation. I acknowledge the very hard work of departmental officials and local authority staff, particularly those operating on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Health and Safety Regulations (14 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Question No. 520 of 14 November 2017, if he will consider amending section 239 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to include bike parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53537/17]

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: A couple of minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Some of what I have to say ties in with the comments of other members. Deputy Cassells is correct that we have one of the most centralised systems of government and weakest forms of local government in Europe. It is a tragedy that in the history of the State we have probably produced more commissions and reports on local government reform than anything else. Political parties are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. That is a period I would support. We need to be realistic in terms of costs. The commission needs to consider what costs would arise from its proposals, which need not necessarily constitute new burdens on the Exchequer. If one is devolving power from existing statutory bodies, one can devolve the powers, staff and budgets with them. During yesterday's debate on the Electoral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to wait until after somebody else contributes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, the other speakers can go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak after them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If one thought that the Putting People First reforms were a good idea, then one would not support this Bill. Many of us are supporting this Bill because we did not support those reforms in the first instance. When something is not functioning well, we have a terrible habit in this State of scrapping it and devolving the powers upwards. Nobody was saying during the debate we had earlier,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (13 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities can include charges for maintenance such as boiler servicing within the overall calculation of differential rent; and if so, the legislation under which such additional charges are permitted. [53398/17]

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is something a little incongruous about our debating and voting on this legislation in so far as none of us, as elected politicians, can claim complete objectivity when it comes to the redrawing of constituencies. That is not to take away from the legitimacy of the points raised by colleagues. We absolutely have a right to debate the legislation underpinning the establishment of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is simply not true.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: He did but the Minister did not answer the question.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (12 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which Ireland's 15th report on the implementation of the European Social Charter for the period 2013 to 2016 was submitted to the European Committee of Social Rights; and if she will publish that report on her Department's website. [53203/17]