Results 14,081-14,100 of 15,092 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 23 February 2017, if the application of the rent pressure zone scheme to the rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment and social housing current expenditure programme leases was intentional or accidental. [13155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost to adequately upgrade the infrastructure in the wastewater plants in the 38 agglomerations across the State that are deemed to be in breach of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. [13292/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Recruitment (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the assistant principal officer position in his Department, previously held by a person (details supplied) will be filled; and the name of the senior official in his Department that is now responsible for liaising with a group (details supplied) of affected homeowners in County Donegal. [13385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the report of the expert panel examining problems that have emerged in the concrete blockwork of certain dwellings in counties Donegal and Mayo will be published. [13386/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 617. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason community employment supervisors were treated differently from CDP workers who were employed by community projects in relation to their pension entitlements. [12939/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not being provided with a nurse on call service; his views on whether it is acceptable that the person has remained in hospital for 13 months ready to be discharged but for the availability of the nurse on call hours; if he will compare the cost of keeping a person in hospital for 13 months with the cost of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three questions relating to Pillar 5. Could Mr. McCarthy give us an update on the timeline for the publication of the vacant homes plan? Is there any time left for those of us who might like to make submissions or is the Department close to completion and publication? When the Housing Agency appeared before us a few weeks ago, one of the issues that arose was progressing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the 1,100 properties that have been identified between AIB, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Representatives of the County and City Management Association, CCMA, attended one of our previous meetings. The housing manager for County Louth stated his local authority's experience of the pilot scheme was that the actual cost of turning around units was significantly higher than anticipated. He indicated that it could have been as high as €100,000 rather than the €40,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The €100,000 figure is probably more-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will take that as a "maybe" so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The previous day we spoke about this I raised the issue of going below the local electoral area, LEA, level to the electoral divisions, ED, or small area level and I seek an update on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely, I fully support you on that ruling, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I did, yes. Death to acronyms. Thank you for pointing that out, Chair. That comes from my days on the social inclusion community activation programme, the local community development programme and the public participation network among others.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I spoke previously about whether we could go below the local electoral area to the electoral divisions and the small areas for the purposes of trying to establish whether smaller areas, in particular for example parts of Waterford city could be included in the rent pressure zones. I wonder if Mr. McCarthy has any update on that. I will add the strapline that while I am not a fan of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want to be mean but Mr. McCarthy's reply on the small areas is the same as the one he gave last time. I completely understand in certain small areas or electoral divisions there will be too few rental properties to use as a base. In Waterford city, however, there will be electoral divisions that have a high concentration of rental properties where I guess it should be possible to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before the day is out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apparently they have a better standard of debate in the Senate so I will never make it in.