Results 17,721-17,740 of 26,293 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I know that but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Because you have been buying second-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I have one final point. The Housing Agency is buying whole estates and large parts of estates. It is not buying estates that would not have been built were it not for the agency. It is doing that, and the Minister knows this is happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I apologise that I had to leave the meeting for a while to attend another meeting. I want to come back to two issues. On the discretionary cap, I do not accept the position the Minister has outlined. It will make a substantial difference in speeding up the delivery of social homes, which are badly needed. I do not believe it will leave the Department open to any undue risk because, as I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Approximately 1,000 social houses have been completed in the year to date-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: -----and the Minister's target is to build more than 6,000. It is a big gap. Is the Minister confident he will meet that target? Regarding private housing supply, I mentioned earlier the role of build-to-rent, cuckoo funds and the private rented sector, PRS. They are having a massive impact within Dublin. If we take Dublin as an example, according to the property price register there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: From the property price register. What I am saying is that more houses are being built and fewer are for sale. That is happening in many parts of the country and it is because we have a market that is being hoovered up by pension funds and investors who will now be able to set the rent prices in those given areas. That is a serious issue. We need to wake up to the fact that entire...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: We are. The European average is 69%. We are at 67%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I intend to move First Stage of the Bill next Tuesday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: There is a role-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: But they work.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Codes (17 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 560. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the provision of an Eircode to a person (details supplied) will be expedited as a matter of urgency in view of the fact that they are unable to obtain the appropriate services into their new house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37615/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (6 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the issuing of a cost effectiveness analysis guidance document; when the document will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36474/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a permanent school for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35964/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (6 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the refurbishment and extension of a school (details supplied); when work will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36164/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (6 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 1530. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the residents of an estate (details supplied) will have high speed broadband access delivered under the national broadband plan in view of the fact that commercial operators are not delivering or have indicated there are no plans to deliver such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36283/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (6 Sep 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 2006. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units acquired under the buy and renew scheme by county; the expenditure by county per annum; the number of applications per annum since its inception by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36769/19]
- Citizens' Assemblies Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: The Minister will hardly try that argument.
- Citizens' Assemblies Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: The Minister should blame Senator Jerry Buttimer as director of elections.
- Citizens' Assemblies Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: He lost.