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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, it will still be possibly even half that. Rather than an exclusive focus on the supply of private housing, better management of and investment in that vacant stock is a much quicker route to providing those units, whether for the social or private sector, along with tackling issues around mortgage distress and rent. I know some of these issues do not fall under the Minister's...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will make a number of comments and then ask two key questions. I appreciate that people like me know far less about the how the procurement and tendering process works than the witnesses but from the outside, I see competent officials in local authorities and in the Department who have to continually go back and forth through that still very...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is based on the assumption that housing demand will not increase. In other words, that the level of demand will remain static at 2014 levels, and we know that will not be the case.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Two questions I asked at the start of the meeting were not answered. I asked many questions and it is understandable that they slipped through. The first question is to both the Department and the housing managers. Is it not possible for us to consider large-scale, local authority-led, mixed tenure, mixed income estates on local authority land, funded through a NAMA NARPS-type vehicle? I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 41. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the governance arrangements of hospital groups; if, how and when he will enact legislation to put the administrative arrangement of hospital groups on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13698/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (2 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish and circulate the guidance on developing hospital group strategic plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13699/16]

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: First Stage (1 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to provide for rent certainty in the private rental market by linking changes in rent arising from a rent review to the Consumer Price Index.

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: First Stage (1 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time." The amendment to the Residential Tenancies Act is very straightforward. It seeks to ensure that future rent reviews are linked to the consumer price index. This is an issue on which the last Government deliberated but, unfortunately, it chose not to address it. I appeal to the Minister responsible for housing to reconsider this...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: First Stage (1 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Rent Certainty Bill. It is of great importance, particularly to stop the flow of families into homelessness because of the spiralling cost of rent. I urge the Minister to give it active consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how he will address the first ground of the Court of Justice of the European Union's judgment in case C-50/09 in terms of legislative provisions in the area of water discharge licensing, and to ensure full compliance with Articles 2 to 4, inclusive, of the environmental impact assessment directive relating to planning...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a few questions and a comment that will put the questions in context. One thing to which many members of this committee are trying to find a solution is that while we have a huge and growing housing need for families at the lower end of the income spectrum in particular, at the same time local authorities have been starved of resources,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In Mr. Palmer's view, on the basis of the Government's projections over the next number of years, is it possible to increase the absolute level of debt but within the debt-reduction rule without disrupting the other two rules, the expenditure benchmark and the structural balance? If so, by what margin?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The questions that were not answered concerned the NDFA, PPPs and the length of time it is taking and whether we can maintain vehicles off-balance sheet in light of the Irish Water ruling and the Eurostat clarification in March on PPPs.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are they notional commencement dates for those first 500 units?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Five years is exceptionally long even by the standards our long-winded public procurement processes.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to tease out a little further the potential off-balance sheet options. We have a potentially significant investment capacity in ISIF and we have a vehicle that we know works in NAMA Asset Residential Property Services, NARPS, whether it is kept as NARPS or NARPS 2. The difficulty is that if it is used as a way of providing 100% social housing, there is no commercial return because...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Dublin City Council, for example, is currently considering a similar model that involves bringing in the private sector. It is leveraging its land. The difficulty when one brings in the private sector is that the cost of building the units, including all the compliance, is significantly higher than when local authorities alone are involved. I am specifically interested in a local authority...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There would be differential rents for a portion. There would be different-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There would be differential proportions and below market rents for other portions.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Irish League of Credit Unions appeared before the committee, its spokesperson indicated that the interest rate is not the big sticking point for credit unions and that they would consider a lower interest rate than they might have originally proposed to the NTMA and others a year and a half ago. Was that the sticking point in the discussions until that point because clearly there was...