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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State did not deal with most of my questions, please allow me to go through them again. I fully accept that the intention behind the Bill to solve what is a particularly difficult problem, about which there is no dispute. I also accept that the Minister of State flagged the general principle. Nonetheless, I believe he is underestimating the concerns of committee members...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for engaging with us constructively on this. I am of a similar view to Deputy Darragh O'Brien. If the Minister of State is willing to sit down with us on the basis of what he has just outlined, that is a reasonable proposition that we could support. I will sound a word of caution, which I am sure is also going through the heads of the officials even though...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but it is a serious point. We are setting ourselves a very difficult task to tease through this stuff within a week to consider amendments and have staff draft amendments. I am agreeing to this but I am also saying that I am not so sure, even with the best will in the world from everybody, that we will able to do this right. We may have to review it, which is being eminently...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will conclude. I am sure that everyone inside the room is very clear on this, but just so nobody outside the room misunderstands, I want to be very clear that I am not supporting the four amendments as they stand. While I will not object to them today, it will be to facilitate that process as outlined and in recognition that the Minister of State is willing to work with us on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have taken the view, both with the Cork and Galway elements, that I defer to my party colleagues in those constituencies, and Deputy Ó Laoghaire led for us on the Cork end. I have been speaking at length with my colleagues in Galway city and county councils, who are very concerned, and I want to relay those concerns to the Minister of State and let him know where we stand. I am being...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would not go that far now.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He is probably not surprised that it does not answer my particular concerns. I will certainly be formally opposing the section. We have only 20 minutes left and want to get through all of the Bill. It is not that I want to stop anyone from having a discussion, but I would prefer us to move to the formal votes. I say to those who are not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (11 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the interest rate and maturity of a loan (details supplied) secured for the cost rental housing project at a location in Dublin 8; and if the loan will be for the construction of just the cost rental units or all units, that is, social rental and cost rental in the development. [51573/18]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. Unlike the Secretary General of the Department of Finance, members of this committee will not be complaining about overspend or requests for additional moneys. Our questions are friendly questions on this occasion. I will stick to the Estimates and we will deal with policy issues at tomorrow's committee meeting. I wish to get more detail...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are friendly questions for today.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two supplementary questions. On emergency accommodation, is the Minister saying that €60 million will fund more than 333 beds with refurbishment of properties for hubs as well as the permanent beds? Obviously I am not asking for the locations of the facilities, but I want a sense of what we are getting for that €60 million. I ask about the second part of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Regarding leasing underperformance, the cost of acquisition per unit is much more significant, on a single year basis, than leasing. There were 2,000 leases in this year's targets and there are just over 2,000 in next year's targets as well. We have not seen the figures, and we will wait until they have been published, but only about 250 leased units were delivered midway through this year....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the overall figure of 7,869, at this stage, with the information the Minister has in front of him, is he confident of meeting that target by the end of the year through the different delivery schemes?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine. I thank the Minister.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I welcome the Bill and the opportunity to discuss these very important topics. A number of the measures are similar to measures Sinn Féin and others have proposed, but unfortunately have not been passed over the past two and a half years. I disagree with the Minister and Taoiseach, who have described the Bill as too radical. While this is no criticism...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenancy Protection Scheme (12 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a housing provider is required to issue notices to quit in cases in which homeless persons or persons who have been homeless have licence agreements in emergency, transitional or own door accommodation that due to the length of time of the license risk accruing tenancy rights, placing the persons at risk of further...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. Before I ask my questions, I want to acknowledge the significant amount of work done by the departmental officials in terms of their preparation of the reports for today's meeting, particularly the pipeline and progress reports which are very detailed pieces of work. I have a series of questions on each of the pillars. We are almost half...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not think he will mind being called a capitalist. He will wear it as a badge of honour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to focus on the social housing output report. On the basis of the figures the Minister has given us, only 35% of the new builds have been delivered as of quarter 3, which means 65% remain to be delivered in the final quarter. That is very worrying. I know we will not know the final output until the end of the year but to have to deliver or complete 65% of the target in three months...