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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of the 5,050 units, have many have been delivered so far this year? I am very glad the Minister is looking to Scotland. He is right that the child homelessness rate is higher there, but the children are in emergency accommodation for only a quarter of the time. The average period is 24 weeks. Here it is about two years. It would be more than welcome if the Minister learned from Scotland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the change to the funding model for Irish Water in any way affect its capital investment programme as outlined in the business plan for next year and the years leading up to 2021? Last year €140 million was earmarked for the completion of phase one and the start of phase two of the metering programme. I understand it has been re-profiled in the overall capital spend, but Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister miss the Deputy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that €1 billion over a period of years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: So it will be a saving from 2018 or 2019 to 2021.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister saying that if the proposals are brought forward, there will be a specific saving between 2019 and 2021? That is not the €1 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the additional bit that Irish Water and the Department is hoping to make if the SLAs are renegotiated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: So that would be €70 million for 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Under programme C, one of the big issues, and it relates to the conversation we have just had on programme A, is funding for staff in housing departments, in terms of general housing staff and private sector inspections. Please identify the increase, if any, for next year and whether additional money was used this year to increase the number of staff in the Department and, specifically, for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I know it is too late to change this but some of us have a concern that the transfer of the final bits of community out of his Department, particularly those that relate to community development functions within urban local authority areas, could have a detrimental impact on the delivery of those services. I am aware that ultimately, that is not a decision for the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his comment on the transfer of the community function. Although we will not have responsibility for the new Department there may be a role for this committee to invite in the Minister, Deputy Ring, maybe once a year or so, to discuss the management of those elements. The only reason I am saying this is since the restructuring of the old community development...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the information of committee members, I sent a request to the Chairman this morning, requesting that we bring in Irish Water, the unions and other interested parties, including the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in January or February to discuss the single utility proposals because I think it would be useful for us to do it at that stage and it would allow members an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (15 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, the reason for the discrepancy in the figures for local authority voids contained in the NOAC report 12 of May 2017, table F, pp 60/61, and the figures for long-term voids returned to stock funded by his Department; the way in which NOAC reported 4,202 voids of...

Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Page 29 of the programme for Government promises to ensure that an appropriate balance is struck between the rights and interests of landlords and tenants. The amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act, which were rushed through the House last December, introduced a loophole that, as the Taoiseach knows, allows landlords to issue notices to quit where they are undertaking substantial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Ní Fhlanghaile for coming in and making her submission. As Deputy Ó Cuív said, the extension of the provisions to European and local elections is eminently sensible and nobody would oppose that. Being able to start opening some boxes while others are delayed would not materially affect the count and we would have no difficulty with that. It may delay the tally a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not have the level of expertise that Ms Ní Fhlanghaile and Deputy Ó Cuív have but perhaps the focus could be less on differentiating between types of islands and more on setting out relevant conditions. For example, in general if a returning officer is satisfied that an earlier closing of the poll will not disenfranchise anyone, that could be done. The worry is that if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Counting should begin at 6 p.m., before the polls have even closed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do not need another meeting just to do with that. The issue is important, but there is no reason that we could not ask Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann for a written submission on it. Members could consider it in advance of Committee Stage. I appreciate what Ms Ní Fhlanghaile said regarding the returning officers' request for flexibility. I will ask my next question...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electronic Commerce (14 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 403. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason deeds of transfer, family home declarations and other sworn declarations were excluded from the terms of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 as set out in section 10(1)(b) and (c); and his plans to apply the terms of section 10(2)(a), (b) and (c) to these types of documents to facilitate a more efficient...