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

Eoin Ó Broin: 404. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to amend the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 or amend the regulations related to this Act to allow for documents such as deeds or transfer, family home declarations and other sworn declarations to be signed electronically rather than with a written signature. [48027/17]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 405. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to undertake a small controlled trial or pilot project to examine the viability of allowing documents such as deeds or transfer, family home declarations and other sworn declarations to be signed electronically rather than with a written signature in order to inform his Department of the merit of a wider...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (9 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement tenancies active on 31 December in each of the years since the payment was introduced to 2017, in tabular form; and the annual cost of the scheme for each of these years. [47442/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (9 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of RAS, HAP and privately owned SHCEP long-term lease tenancies inactive on 31 December or each year since each scheme was introduced, in tabular form; and the annual cost of each scheme for each of these years. [47443/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The confidence and supply agreement with Fianna Fáil led to the creation of the expert commission on water. A key recommendation from this group was equity for those on group water schemes. This view was unanimously endorsed by all the members of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services. Despite this, people in rural Ireland continue to pay a standing...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: He does not have any either.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The houses on the left of the Taoiseach were for sale. They were right behind him.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Three hundred and ninety-five thousand euro.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is absolutely untrue.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is absolutely not true and the Taoiseach knows that.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mixed tenure-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Dishonesty of the highest order.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shame on the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: An Taoiseach never tires of telling us that he wants to lead a republic of opportunity. Apparently he is a champion of those who get up early in the morning and go to work, unless of course they are a family earning less than €75,000 a year. It seems that in Deputy Varadkar's republic the only people who deserve affordable housing are the well off. Hundreds of thousands of working...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Taoiseach. I was hoping he would mention Hansfield in Fingal. I watched the Twitter clip yesterday of the Taoiseach in a hard hat. Initially I thought it was a "Callan's Kicks" satire because the Taoiseach was standing beside houses, the sale prices of which are €315,000 to €395,000. One would need a combined household income of between €81,000 and...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief and stick to the Bill. Anybody who thinks that the issue of water will be put to bed by this Bill is mistaken. Irish Water has published a proposal to move towards what it calls its single utility by 2021 at the cost possibly of 1,000 jobs and seeking to bring to an end the service level agreements with the local authorities four years early. That is going to have huge...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will respond briefly to some of the points made in the debate. When I was writing my opening speech, one of my questions was about how widespread breaches of minimum standards in the private rental sector are. I live in that sector and have done for 11 years. I have had three very good landlords. The straight answer, however, is that we just do not know. The reason is that there is an...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes, with alarm, the revelations regarding breaches of minimum standards in the private rental sector contained in last weeks RTÉ Investigates documentary ‘Nightmare to Let’; further notes that:— in 2016 only four per cent of private rental properties were inspected by local authorities; — in 2016 two thirds of inspected...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Acting Chairman is only prolonging our pain.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: One reason we just had the argument about the amendments that had been ruled out of order is the deficiencies in the Bill. I wish to put my comments on the three amendments into context. A number of us in the Chamber spent a very long period as members of the special water committee. We did so to go through a range of issues concerning the future funding of domestic water services. Some...