Results 15,301-15,320 of 15,379 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The reason is that Sinn Féin keeps its word.

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Our view on the matter is very straightforward. Some 90 Deputies were elected to this House on a mandate of ending water charges and 39 of us have tabled the motion, as Deputy Adams stated earlier. I welcome the fact Fianna Fáil has abandoned a long-standing commitment to water charges. Why has it done so? It has done so under great pressure from the hundreds of thousands of...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In his absence, I thank Deputy Micheál Martin for the backhanded compliment on the issue of water this morning. He and his colleagues in Fianna Fáil know a thing or two about verbal dexterity. Given the fact his party's U-turns on the issue over the years have turned into veritable cartwheels, "verbal gymnastics" is probably a more appropriate description. It is worth...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Compare this with Sinn Féin's record. Deputy Adams gave it but I will repeat it for the record. In 2006 when the British Government was attempting to do in the North what Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party have been trying to do in this State-----

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----Sinn Féin campaigned against it. When the Assembly was re-established, we deliberately took the Ministry for Regional Development with Mr. Conor Murphy for one reason above all, namely, to halt the introduction of water charges.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Chairman propose to go through each of the headings and seek suggestions at this point?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to suggest a couple of obvious names. The first is Dr. Eoin O'Sullivan from Trinity College, one of the country's leading academic experts on homelessness. He would be a good witness to invite as he has probably done the most up-to-date research on the causes of homelessness, funding models and so forth. Another is Mr. Cathal Morgan, the head of the homeless agency which...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is all under the homelessness heading.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have some suggestions. We should invite the head of the Irish Council for Social Housing because they obviously represent all the voluntary housing providers in the social sector.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. I have a couple of other suggestions. If we have the South Dublin and Dublin city managers in today, we could also invite a couple of other managers and heads of housing from other local authorities. Limerick City Council would be interesting because they piloted HAP first, so it would be good to hear from the head of housing there. We could also include some of the rural counties...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have a further agenda item, which is a legal section. When I was proposing it, I was thinking of a legal academic. That is the point on which we would invite those people-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and deal with those people under that section because they have an important contribution to make.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree with Deputy Coppinger but I do not believe the proposal is that we do not invite the likes of Rory Hearne, for example, or others. A session could be held with representatives from the local authorities and departmental staff on the technical aspects of the delivery of social housing. A separate session could be held around housing policy, to which people such as Rory Hearne and...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are five concrete proposals. The National Economic and Social Council, NESC, produced a very good report entitled Ireland’s Private Rental Sector: Pathways to Secure Occupancy and Affordable Supply. The author of that report could be invited to the committee. The chair of the Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB, could also be a good person to invite. I would also...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: John O'Connor from the Housing Agency is another. I realise we will have the Housing Agency in during other modules, but his expertise in private housing would be useful as well.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Conor McCabe would probably be the most appropriate of the three, to deal specifically with land and how it relates to that discussion.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want a debate, I just want to suggest a speaker.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume it is not just NAMA. I presume if there are other people who have interesting things to say----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to suggest a speaker who would come in. We cannot just have NAMA on its own in here. That is not what the Chairman is proposing, is it? There are other people who have expertise on NAMA and on homelessness, who might have interesting things to contribute. Mark Kenney, for example, from Mazars, would be worthy of inviting in alongside NAMA.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I speak as somebody who has worked for a homeless services provider for three years. Most of the organisations which work with those who are homeless, whether the more traditional cases or those who have become homeless as a result of the financial crisis, will say it is really important that policymakers hear the experiences of those who have found themselves homeless. Clearly, some of...