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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the first two recommendations from the report of the expert panel on concrete blocks in counties Donegal and Mayo will be implemented; and when a redress scheme for the affected families will be introduced. [24772/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated annual cost if the existing subsidy to domestic group and private well water users covered the full operating costs of providing water for domestic use. [25222/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of my questions have been covered by Deputy O'Brien, so I will not repeat them. I want to make it very clear that we have indicated to the Minister that we are very supportive of the principle of the residential tenancies (amendment) Bill 2018. I think most members of this committee have said we would like to assist the Minister in having it proceed as speedily as possible. Given the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have just a couple of supplementary questions. Ms Carroll said in her initial response that she would favour the idea of the annual registration and would have concerns about a criminal offence if a landlord did not notify of a change, be it a rent, tenancy change, etc. Does she think that having an annual registration with a possible civil offence, if that is not complied with, would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are universities covered by that exemption?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Carroll's point is that the private purpose-built student accommodation is covered under the RTA and RPZs. She is calling on students with licences in those premises to take a case if they feel their rights have been infringed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Farha and Ms Kerin for their presentations. Ms Farha has been exceptionally busy during the two short days that she has spent in this country and we have followed her interventions. It is a pity that she is not here on an official visit to assess our implementation, or non-implementation, of the right to housing because the picture might be a little more bleak than her opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We asked for that but it was refused.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy has only five minutes left.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will share time with Deputies Tóibín and Adams. I warmly welcome the People Before Profit motion, which we are enthusiastically supporting. I am running out of adjectives to describe the Minister's speeches to the House. I do not say that to be in any way personal. The gap between what the Minister is telling us week in and week out and the reality we are all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Berney for his presentation. It is important that the Oireachtas committee is having this debate, both in the session we had with Irish Water and the Department previously and this session with the unions. It is important we make it clear that it is not the business of this committee to get involved in the industrial relations issues and the negotiations that will take place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Berney. I have some supplementary questions. Leaving aside what Irish Water has or has not proposed, knowing the water services sector as Mr. Berney does, what does he think will be the impact of removing 1,000 full-time equivalent staff by 2021? Do the unions have a view on the future reconfiguration of the utility and Irish Water moving towards becoming a non-commercial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked about the idea of Irish Water being a non-commercial semi-State body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the submissions they sent in earlier and for appearing before the joint committee today. A number of Deputies on the committee had indicated to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, when he brought the heads of the Bill before us, that we were mindful to support and to assist him in trying to get the legislation through before the end of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have no regulations for short-term letting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no proposed legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have suggestions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not wish to pick a fight but none of those is in our committee recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will send Mr. O'Brien our report, which is different from what he has mentioned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of points for Ms McCormick and Mr. O'Brien. I am genuinely not anti-landlord. I am probably one of the few Deputies living in the private rental sector who likes living there. In most of the debates here and in most of my public commentary, we acknowledge that the vast majority of landlords are compliant and provide a good service. We want to see a restructured private...