Results 2,281-2,300 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are direct quotes from his press release on the day of the figures. Direct quotes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it not astounding-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not what the figures are telling us in writing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of questions and a comment. On St. Michael's Estate and Shanganagh, I have a very specific question. If the local authorities in the two areas in question come forward with specific proposals and seek Exchequer funding for them, will the Minister consider them actively? Is he open to them? With regard to the story in the news this morning about an increase in the number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We often hear Government spokespeople talking about approximately 3,000 exits from homelessness in 2017. The figures actually indicate that approximately half of those were not people exiting from emergency accommodation but people who either maintained their tenancy, with a housing assistance payment increase, or who, before the notice to quit date, found a new tenancy and were never in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This information is already in the public domain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It states that, in April 2018, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government contacted Kildare County Council as lead authority for the mid-east region to discuss families who are being classified as homeless but who are staying in transitional local authority-owned houses or private houses where the families had own-door access with a view to recategorising the families reported...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about St. Michael's?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has there been an increase in the number of late night referrals to Garda stations in March and April?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Could that be provided to the committee? Apparently, there is a figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The only reason I am asking is because the word "exit" sounds like they are exiting from emergency accommodation. For at least half of them, that is not the case. The Minister might look at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister said they had not been contacted and were included. They are saying they were contacted. They were asked to reduce them and they refused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are they correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is saying the Kildare email is correct. He does not dispute anything I read out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister had listened to what I said, that is not what they indicated in the email.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will send it to the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Student accommodation is increasing massively. There is a lack of clarity as to whether student licences are covered by the Residential Tenancies Act or not. Can the Minister provide any clarity on that matter? If it is the view of the Minister or the Attorney General that they are not covered is it something he will look at including in the upcoming Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government's legislation is the Residential Tenancies Act. Is that something the Minister can clarify with the Attorney General to see if students' nine month licences would be covered as tenancies under that Act? That is really the Minister's responsibility, not that of the Department of Education and Skills.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The RTB says that it is not clear whether or not the Residential Tenancies Act would include nine-month student licences as tenancies. Is there a way for the Minister, via the Attorney General, to clarify the position in order that we would know whether additional legislation is required?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: ERASMUS Programme (22 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance if the ERASMUS+ master degree loans scheme backed by the European Union is being considered by his Department; if the loan product has been discussed with the financial institutions here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22049/18]