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Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Mitchell O'Connor.

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Opposition parties that outlined their support for the Bill. I also thank the Government for its support of the spirit of the Bill and its statement that rent predictability is in line with Government policy. I do not accept that this is a complex issue. Either one believes students should live with 20% to 30% rent increases or one does not. If one does not, then a range of...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice and Equality pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the spend on the pyrite remediation scheme for each year since its introduction; the number of units remediated in each year; and the estimated future costs for homes approved for the scheme but at which work has not yet taken place. [23637/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units brought into social housing use via NAMA by year and local authority; the number by local authority purchase, approved housing body purchase and narrows lease; the annual cost each year to secure these units for social housing use; the estimated future annual costs arising from these units that...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2018: First Stage (30 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled An Act to amend the Housing Act 1988 to provide a legal definition of persons at risk of homelessness and to give the Minister for Housing and local authorities the power to provide such persons with supports to prevent them from becoming homeless. As the House knows, the homeless crisis continues to deepen. The vast majority of...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: He is always draws the short straw.

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I warmly welcome and fully support the Labour Party Bill tabled by Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. Most of the measures in the Bill are eminently sensible and should have been made law back in 2016 when we were debating the Government's Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill. The Minister is not opposing this Bill today but he should sit down with Deputy O'Sullivan and other members of the...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, released the April homeless figures and they make for grim reading. The number of children living in emergency accommodation is up by 43 on the figure for the previous month. The number of older people without a home is also up. According to the figures, the overall picture is stagnant. Despite claims...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Meanwhile, outside the bubble of Government Buildings, more and more people are becoming homeless. We should not be having an argument over the figures, but behind every one of them is a real person, for example, a mother with a child trapped in emergency accommodation or a pensioner who is unsure where he or she will sleep tomorrow. At a time when the economy is growing, the number without...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I quoted him accurately.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not what Louth, Waterford and Meath county councils stated in writing.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They have stated they were instructed.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is the Government that is politicising the figures.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are substantiated by the housing committee. They were before the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be honest.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have not misquoted anyone.

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The shocking revelations in recent days in respect of the extent of illegal adoptions carried out by the St. Patrick’s Guild adoption society, run by the Sisters of Charity, have rightly caused much anger and angst. Successive Governments have known about this and have failed to act despite reams of evidence. The situation persists that there is no statutory basis upon which people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was repetitive but they were good points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is just like the report of the Minister of State.