Results 13,321-13,340 of 15,379 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: Nothing is happening. No affordable homes are being provided.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: This has been in place since 2014 and nothing has happened.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: This has been going on since 2014.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I understand why the Tánaiste is so sensitive on this issue because Rebuilding Ireland was his plan. He signed off on a document which contained not a single target over its six years for a single purchase for a rental affordable unit. As everybody knows, phone calls will not solve the affordable housing crisis. Affordable homes will. I will ask the question again. How many...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am talking about affordable housing.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: When the targets are so low, it is easy.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I would like the Tánaiste to answer the questions.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: When will this be met?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: Will it be 2019, 2020 or 2021?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: It has been six years already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: We might.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy is assuming Meath will get to an All-Ireland final.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I acknowledge the extent to which Mr. Cussen and his team have made themselves available to us, not just at the committee but also informally at a variety of meetings since this process started. That has been very helpful, and I want to record my thanks. I acknowledge, as I did in the debate, that there have been some changes in the final published version on the earlier draft such as...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (22 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet with a cross-party delegation from the Inishowen Municipal District of Donegal County Council to discuss Government funding for the rebuilding of Swan Park, Buncrana, County Donegal destroyed by the August 2017 floods along with the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Minister of State for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I would appreciate it if somebody could explain for the benefit of the committee what is meant by a risk based approach. I think I understand it from the presentations, but it would be helpful to have it explained in plain English and more detail. One of the things that comes to mind first is cost. The NFGWS has given indications of cost in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is that an annual investment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: To follow up on that response, the figure goes up to €700 million or so the following year and settles at around €800 million to €900 million at the end of the period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: Let us say the May 2019 deadline is met and that there is a transitional period. Is Mr. Laffey saying the issue is not whether the Government would give extra capital of €200 million or €300 million and then €100 million annually but the question of his organisation not having the capacity to take on the extra investment? Its capacity means that it would have to do it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: Would that mean, for example, that work to upgrade the 38 agglomerations that are falling foul of the urban wastewater treatment directive would take longer, or would pipe upgrades in the public water system take longer? I presume that would be a logical outcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: What will be the cost of installing a filtration system in a small to medium-sized scheme?