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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is very clear. I said that to the Minister of State and did not need it explained back to me. The issue is very specific. For instance, I got a maritime area consent. I put in my planning application. There is a judicial review of the consent. These will be large, complex and difficult applications. We are allowing the planning authority to proceed to make a decision. I...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I want to put on the record that I am not opposing this section. However, I want to express some reservations about the risk calculus involved. It may be something I come back to on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a very quick question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: And the €20 million.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: So the answer is "No".
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The number of applications has been tiny and the number of purchases has been in the tens. Not a single one of the tenants affected has been transferred onto an affordable rent. The application process is too cumbersome and people do not know about the scheme. It is another of the Minister's failures. He is now telling us that none of that can change until there is change to the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true, as the Minister knows.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is evading questions as usual. Off you go.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the cost rental tenant in situ scheme and the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. [15607/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, there have been significant problems with the implementation of the cost rental tenant in situ scheme. There have been very small numbers of applications and even lower numbers of purchases. Of course, there is an ongoing delay with the processing and progress of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. Can the Minister give us an update on whether he...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Dillon is the fourth Minister of State since 2018 to stand up in the House and read out almost exactly the same script. It is an open secret, and this will be of value to Deputy Flaherty, that the guidelines have been ready and complete for at least two if not three Ministers of State, but for reasons of political controversy they are not being published. We will not see the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing. [15610/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I commend the Government side, particularly the diligent backbenchers, on making an incredibly unsuccessful scheme sound successful. Three grants being drawn down in Longford in a year and a half is not, by any normal definition, a success. There were only 100 across the State.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This scheme is good in principle but an absolute failure in practice. If the Minister wants to sell three drawdowns in a year and a half to his constituents as a success, far be it for me to get in his way. The Minister has had the report of the Housing Commission on the right to housing for almost a year. When will he publish it? More importantly, when will he act on it?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It seems to me that the Minister has left out a few crucial details. The first, of course, is that a memo was due to go to Cabinet on this matter last autumn. The Minister thought he was able to proceed to refer the report to the Oireachtas committee for its consideration. That was blocked by his Government partners and now the thing sits in abeyance. I obviously have not seen the report,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is interesting the Minister did not refute or contradict my suggestion that there was an intention to bring a memo to Cabinet last autumn but there was a-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----disagreement between Government parties. If I am incorrect, I would like the Minister to put that clearly on the record. The problem is that this is another of those occasions where he makes it seem like he is doing something but where it appears that nothing is actually going to happen. I suspect what will happen is that eventually a memo will go to Cabinet, with both the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: God loves a trier.