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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (15 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when a water extraction licensing regime will be introduced; if such a regime is required under the terms of the Water Framework Directive; and if such a register would apply to all water extraction including public and commercial operations. [35123/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Local Authority Funding (15 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 655. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding that will be made available to Galway County Council for the purpose of developing a recycling centre in Casla, Connemara, which has been planned by them in conjunction with Údarás na Gaeltachta; the steps that need to be taken to apply and draw down such funding; and the amount of the cost his...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some 750,000 people live in the private rented sector. In Dublin one in four households rent. Gone are the days of renting being the preserve of transient students, low income families or those who were saving to buy their first home. Increasingly, the private rented sector is where low and middle income families, and those who are languishing on council waiting lists, spend long periods...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I take that as a "no".

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I take the Tánaiste's response as a "no" to the one action I asked her about. Any struggling renter watching this debate can only conclude that she is so out of touch with the pressures that people are facing that she just does not understand. The Tánaiste made reference to 30,000 private sector houses. If that is achieved, the houses will not be tenanted for another two years....

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Show it by your actions.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not for struggling renters.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not recovering for struggling renters.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will do my best.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Joan Collins and the Independents 4 Change for allowing Private Members' time to be used for this very important Private Members' Bill. I also thank the Minister, Deputy Coveney, for what was a really constructive contribution. Those of us who have brought forward this Bill do so sincerely but we do not think we have all the answers and we are conscious of the fact that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have six questions. First, on the issue of balanced regional development, the over-concentration of economic and population growth in the Dublin region is bad both for Dublin and for the rest of the country. There is a benefit to having a much more proactive strategy of trying to achieve that goal all people say they want, which is more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The witness might be stepping beyond his departmental brief. Not that we object.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman and witnesses for all the detailed answers. They were most helpful. First, may I remind witnesses of the question in respect of Irish Water and the overlap of the two plans. On the socio-economic disadvantage and the issue of the concentration of population in Dublin, the conversation was really interesting. For me, the unplanned over-concentration of population and...

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to share time with Deputies Martin Kenny, Kathleen Funchion and Pat Buckley.

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: A starting salary of €87,000 a year puts Deputies in the top 5% of earners in the State. It does not stop there. We receive an incredibly generous travel and accommodation allowance, which is unvouched and not independently set, of between €9,000 and €34,000, depending on one's distance from the Dáil. There are also excessively generous additional payments for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (8 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the allocations of funding of service providers under section 10 of the 1988 Housing Act per year and per organisation for each of the years 2012 to date in 2016, in tabular form. [33616/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (3 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who remain in direct provision after receiving their stamp four leave to remain; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Reception and Integration Agency is now threatening these persons with eviction with the potential of them becoming homeless; if her attention has further been drawn to the very...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (3 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if additional funding is available to provide emergency accommodation in South Dublin County Council; if he and his Department has been in discussions with officials in South Dublin County Council to identify potential sites for this emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33132/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Direct Provision System (3 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of persons who remain in direct provision following receipt of their stamp four visas and the threat of these persons and families being made homeless by the Reception and Integration Agency; if with his responsibility for homelessness policy he has raised this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Workplace Relations Commission (2 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the equality ground of the nine equality grounds which would potentially cover an allegation that a landlord refused a person a tenancy on the grounds that the prospective tenant would be in receipt of rent supplement or other State rent subsidy schemes; and the number of such cases that have been brought before the WRC since refusal of a...