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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (17 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 589. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person (details supplied) will in fact be sentenced in the Courts in Egypt on 29 June 2016; if the person’s last thirteen trial hearings were in fact the trial; if this stands up to international standards of a fair trial, given that the person has had no opportunity to testify in defence and no witnesses have been brought...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Daly said earlier that repaying the debt was NAMA's top priority. I do not need to remind him that is not what the NAMA Act says. The Act gives NAMA a number of tasks. Section 2(b)(viii) of the Act talks about contributing "to the social and economic development of the State". Mr. Daly went on to say that in his view, repaying the debt is the best social dividend. I would have thought...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not that I want clarity.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Until recently, I was a councillor on a local authority that worked extensively on this issue. I understand some of these dynamics. I am conscious that it is important in these public sessions to challenge the suggestion that local authorities are simply not taking units by putting it on the record that the picture is more complex.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We had two of the most senior housing managers in the country, from Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council, at our first session. They told us that after the planning stage has passed, the tendering and procurement stage can take between a year and a half and two years. The shortened process that was made available for the rapid build project in Ballymun is currently available...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is fair to say that section 10 of the Act does not prioritise any of the eight objectives?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: My point had more to do with some of my colleagues.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In regard to Clonburris land, that would not apply.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There was one question that was not answered about increasing the Part V element of the 20,000 units.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: NAMA is funding them and that does not happen with their competitors who are outside of NAMA, but that is a separate issue.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: On an item of information that is relevant to the question, I thought the Land Registry actually has on its map a designation for land relating to NAMA and that this is differentiated from other land.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dublin Homeless Network, Limerick and Clare Homeless Alliance, Cork Social Housing Forum (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I commend the organisations represented here today and the other organisations represented by the network. We see today that the official homelessness figures of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government are at their highest point ever, with 6,000 people, including almost 2,000 children, affected. To put this in context, the official figures from the Department in...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Honohan, not only for his presentation but also for his interventions on this subject since last year. I think many of us have been following them with great interest, and they have been very helpful to our considerations. He has made the position very clear. I would, however, would be interested in him maybe applying his general observations to a couple of specific policy...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: To go back to the issue of rent certainty, what Mr. Honohan has stated is if, for example, legislation were introduced to apply rent certainty to the private rental market in general, there should not be a constitutional issue so long as it meets a general policy or social need. It is only if it were applied to specific categories-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I mean rent certainty in terms of linking rent reviews to the consumer price index, for example, which is a form of rent control which provides rent certainty. My point is if it applied to the rental market in general, it probably would not fall foul of the law and it is only if it applied to specific sectors that it might do. Is this what Mr. Honohan is saying?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Sweetman and Ms Naughton for their presentations. Regarding the CPOs, much of the discussion we have been having is less to do with land and more to do with the compulsory purchase of vacant units that are not on the market or the use of CPOs to buy packages of mortgages that have been sold on to funds, or whatever we call them, at a discount. There is a question of whether a...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are waiting for the property prices to appreciate to make up losses on investments made pre-2008. That is the problem.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Professor P. J. Drudy, Trinity College Dublin (10 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Professor Drudy for his presentation. My questions will attempt to tease out different aspects. One of the points that is often lost in the debate is when those of us who advocate a return to large-scale social housing build relates to the fact that we are only advocating on behalf of those who will live in those houses as opposed to, as the professor said, reducing the pressure on...