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Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: A majority of the Deputies elected to the House were elected on manifestos which included a commitment to scrap water charges, yet every time Sinn Féin has forced a vote on the matter, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have stitched it up to keep the issue of water charges alive. The people voted for abolition of this unjust charge, but what did Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael do? In a...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not only has the Tánaiste confirmed that it is the intention of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to deny the right of the committee to elect its own Chairman, unlike the other two special committees established since the start of the Thirty-second Dáil, she has also confirmed that the Government is imposing on the Seanad one of its four nominees. Ordinarily, when an Oireachtas...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that, with all of the U-turns, Fianna Fáil is confused about its own position and does not like to hear people remind it of this fact. My question is very simple. Why, for the first time since this Dáil was formed, is the Government seeking to impose a Chairman on a special committee contrary to ordinary procedure? Why for the first time, probably in decades, is the...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said last night, Sinn Féin has long supported the idea of a directly elected mayor but it does so in the context of local government reform. A purely symbolic position of mayor is of very little value, in and of itself, to the citizens of Dublin or anywhere else. I share the views of other speakers that we need a mayoral office with real executive powers, which give added value to...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: First Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: First Stage (23 Nov 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 and to provide for greater security of tenure by making Part 4 tenancies of indefinite duration and removing sale of property as grounds for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will add significantly to our Christmas party funds. It is a euro for every acronym. We are not joking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. As a councillor, I was a member of the local community economic development committee and, as such, I was involved in the production of the plan for South Dublin County Council and in the establishment of the public participation network. I would like to make some observations on the process and to hear the witnesses' responses in that regard....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Senator Coffey spoke about the influence of councillors in spending decisions. My experience of the community activation programme tendering process as a member of the local community development committee was that we did not get to see the detail of what was being agreed. There was a sub-committee of the local community development committee that dealt with the tender. We had to approve...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the four minutes we have left, many of us would really like to hear what both the CCMA and AILG have to say about two aspects of the planning Bill that will be coming before the Houses, namely, the strategic housing developments and the Part 8 arrangements. If the delegates could respond in four minutes, it would be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It did but I would like it on the record of the committee.

Local Government Reform (Amendment) (Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sharing time with Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh. I thank Deputy Lahart for introducing this Bill. Sinn Féin will be happily supporting it today and on later Stages. We always start these debates by saying we have one of the most centralised local government systems in Europe, as is the case. It is very often the case that politicians lament over-centralisation when in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (22 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will include figures provided from Tusla of adults and children in domestic violence refuges in his Department's monthly homeless reports. [36271/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans regarding medical information for those adopted and fostered, including those whose adoption was forced by religious institutions, in order for them to have access to clinical information pertaining to them and their known family for medical purposes. [35770/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (22 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 574. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will publish figures provided from Tusla of adults and children in domestic violence refuges on a monthly basis to allow the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to include these figures in their monthly homeless reports. [36272/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two brief questions. The Minister has said a number of times that funding is not an issue and that if local authorities bring forward more ambitious programmes than the ones they are currently pursuing, he will consider them. South Dublin County Council has budgeted to construct 600 new-build units. If it approaches the Minister and states that it wants to build twice that number,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: To mid-October there was about a 30% drawdown from the local authorities. I accept the point the Minister is making about them having a couple of months left but last year a number of local authorities did not draw down any of their allocation. For example, Clare County Council and Cork County Council have not drawn down any of their allocations this year. What is the Department doing to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Data (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, Sinn Féin has supported the rapid-build projects where they have been undertaken so far and we are not looking to undermine this particular part of the strategy, but I share the concerns on a number of issues of both of the Deputies who have spoken on this side of the House. The use of language here is very important. The Minister talked about 350 additional...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two further points of clarification. Will it be a matter for the committee to decide who will be its Chair? Also, my understanding was that the Business Committee was meant to agree today on the motion to be proposed to the Dáil next week and that this did not happen. Can the Minister explain why that is the case and outline the reason for the delay?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is grouped with Questions Nos. 27 and 33.