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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 43:In page 13, line 16, to delete "customer" and substitute "household".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 44:In page 13, line 26, after "health" to insert "or social care". If possible, will the Minister give us more information on how he sees the medical exemption scheme operating? Notwithstanding my opposition to the Bill, I welcome this element and it is important it is got right. One concern is that there are several cases in other institutions where there is some type...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does. I will explain my concern a little bit more to ensure the Minister will consider it when he gets to the stage of drawing up the regulations. For example, somebody might have hygiene related issues which are indirectly related to mental health, a disability, a history of institutionalisation, or a lack of development of the life skills for independent living. This is a set of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously, as Deputies and as a committee, we have no formal involvement in the regulation process. However, it would be useful, even just on an informal basis, that prior to the introduction of the regulations, the Minister discusses them with the committee.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would be perfect.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 50:In page 17, lines 31 and 32, to delete all words from and including "section 22."." in line 31 down to and including line 32 and substitute the following:"section 22. (7) Recognising that Irish Water is a fully State funded entity, Irish Water shall be required to report, as required, to the Comptroller and Auditor General and to be amenable to all reporting...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I do so and the proposal falls, will I be able to reintroduce it on Report Stage?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Doing so would not preclude the Minister, if he so wished and having consulted the Comptroller and Auditor General, from introducing an alternative wording on Report Stage?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear, does the same apply if I press the amendment?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I do not understand what is proposed in sections 54, 55, 56 and 57 in terms of the transfer of local property taxes to the local government fund and in regard to the other financial transfers. Perhaps the Minister would explain each of them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is about where the money goes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Message to Dáil (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do we not vote on the Bill as amended?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Message to Dáil (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do we not get to vote on the Bill, as amended, proceeding to Report Stage?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Message to Dáil (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can we do it if members request it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Message to Dáil (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to know if it is permissible for a member to call a vote at this point on the Bill, as amended.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government pledges to increase capital investment in infrastructure. Obviously, this is very good news for the construction industry but it is not so much good news for workers on low pay who are trapped in bogus subcontracts. Both in March and July of this year I asked during Questions on Promised Legislation for the then Taoiseach to give us an update on the report that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was not being pejorative.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Healy for moving the motion and giving Members the opportunity to speak about this important topic. Sinn Féin supports the principle behind the motion which we fully support. It is almost three years since Jonathan Corrie died on steps just opposite the entrance to this building. When he died as a rough sleeper, many of us were very reticent to comment publicly. This...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (24 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and cost of Part V units purchased with funding from his Department for each year from 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the target number of this type of unit to be purchased with funding from his Department in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; and the funding allocated for Part V purchases for each year from 2018 to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the units delivered through SHCEP, the social housing current expenditure programme, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by ownership (details supplied) in tabular form. [44860/17]