Results 15,041-15,060 of 15,379 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: I have three questions. The first relates to the €16.65 million in the Estimates for the Local Government Fund to local authorities this year as the one-off payment to meet the shortfall from the utility rates revaluations. It is a technical question. I presume that is just in the overall figure of the Local Government Fund in the report. The amounts of money involved are...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: I assume there will be no need for discussions between the Departments of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Finance about repeating that payment for a second year. Am I right in saying that is just not on the table?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: At the moment.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: I think that is the point people are making. Perhaps the Minister misunderstands it. Their point is that they have always been paying for this service. I appreciate that this is not a matter for this discussion.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: I also asked about the SICAP and RAPID programmes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Casey should know that I am the only person here who takes cheap shots.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is talking about Fine Gael party meetings.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: The allocation to An Bord Pleanála in the Estimates is €14 million. In the context of the discussions during the sittings of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness, I know the Minister is considering - in the context of his action plan - the lengthy delays in the decisions of An Bord Pleanála. What portion of the €14 million is for staff costs? Is consideration...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a rationale for that decision? May I compliment Met Éireann as it has one of the best short-range weather-forecasting services in the European Union. It should be complimented on that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: The difference between €9 million and €14 million is fees.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: How many staff does it have?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: I am sorry for interrupting, but did An Bord Pleanála tell the Minister the turnaround time for the larger developments, even ones with over 100 units?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Eoin Ó Broin: I was just going to remind the Chairman about matters to be raised under the heading of any other business.
- Other Questions: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: When a family presents as homeless to a local authority, they have to provide evidence of the reason for their homelessness. If they have been put out of private rental accommodation, evidence of notice to quit is sufficient, but the homeless agency tells us that about 28% of families are presenting as a result of family relationship breakdown. It is very difficult for many of these...
- Other Questions: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, it does not involve just one case. The Focus Ireland intake team carried out research in April and May. In April there were 35 families who were turned away, many of whom were subsequently deemed to be in need of emergency accommodation. They were turned away from the local authority because, acting on the criteria it had been given by the homeless agency, it considered they...
- Other Questions: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I absolutely agree with the Minister on the last point. In addition to the legislative criteria, there are criteria on which the homeless agency has worked with the four Dublin local authorities to assist front-line staff in making these very difficult decisions. It is that aspect which needs to be reviewed, not the legislation. I urge the Minister, in addition to talking to the homeless...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: While many of these measures are welcome, and Sinn Féin has welcomed them publicly, none of them address the specific question I put to the Minister. We have a situation right now in the city of Dublin that when a family including children presents as homeless there is not enough emergency accommodation and these people are sent away to telephone hotels to try to find emergency...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: What will the Minister do before the action plan is implemented to ensure families are not left sleeping on the streets?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (29 Jun 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I emphasise that in April, 35 families were turned away by local authorities. The number of families in May was 55, and more than half of these were subsequently deemed to have a need for emergency accommodation. I understand and welcome the fact the housing action plan will be published early, and I hope we will have time to debate it in the House and in the new Oireachtas committee, but...