Results 2,961-2,980 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown by each local authority and by year of the 48 homes brought back into use and tenanted under the repair and lease scheme. [3090/19]

Local Government Bill 2018: From the Seanad (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a quick question which the Minister of State may be able to clarify. When this section was originally amended by way of a Fianna Fáil amendment, which we supported in the Dáil, it aimed to compel the Minister to introduce legislation in line with the outcome of the referendum. Obviously I was not in the Seanad when this amendment was made but it seems tighter than the...

Local Government Bill 2018: From the Seanad (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Cork is done and dusted.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The really significant innovation in this Bill is obviously that concerning Part 7, which is giving the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, the option to pursue criminal sanctions against landlords who breach the rules of rent pressure zones. At the same time, it allows for civil sanctions and the powers to investigate and, where the board feels it appropriate, to impose sanctions for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish National Election Study: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a few practical questions which will give the committee some more information. It would be useful if the witnesses could put on record more detail about the most recent study they carried out. Will they tell us about the mechanics of setting it up, for example, deciding what would be asked and who would be asked, as well as costing the particular study? What were the key findings?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish National Election Study: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a supplementary question on the cost. Let us take an ideal scenario where there was a blank cheque. If a number of elections are held in one year, that obviously pushes up costs. Do the witnesses have a notional cost per election or per referendum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish National Election Study: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a small aside, there were a number of hustings of candidates in schools in my constituency during the last general election and there seemed to be an interesting correlation between the result of the election in the school and the tally results for the catchment area. For example, an independent candidate who did not get elected and who fared quite poorly had a strong electoral base in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish National Election Study: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: To translate into today's money the figures the witnesses quoted earlier, they are talking about a set-up figure for the new panel of between €250,000 and €300,000 and then some €100,000 to €150,000 for every election after that. If that is the ballpark figure, it is small money whereas the benefits are clear. Everybody here has made clear their support for it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Quinn for the presentation. Our party will make submissions to the public consultation. We have long argued for an independent commission and modernisation of the register so that is welcome. I will not ask any questions about the detail of it because Ms Quinn cannot answer that until after the consultation. The question I will ask is perhaps unfair. Does she have a notional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is a relatively short timeframe months rather than years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: To pick up on Deputy Barry's question, the witnesses caught the tail end of the political scientists' presentation and they know them all well. My question is not about the consultations and whether we get an electoral commission; it is about the meantime as we wait for those. Is the Department, and this section in particular, considering whether to fund some form of electoral research this...

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sharing time with Deputy Quinlivan. I wish to note on the record the very constructive way in which the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, has engaged with members of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government on the broader issues of local government reform as well as on the Local Government Bill with which the House dealt yesterday. In light of that...

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We want him to stay.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Medals (24 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 71. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 1725 of 26 July 2017, if the issue of awarding 1916 commemorative medals to all retired members of the Defence Forces will be reviewed with a view to awarding the medals in 2019. [3552/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Driver Licence Renewals (24 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 190. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the issue of medical certificates for persons over 70 years of age renewing driver licences not being covered by the medical card in order to reduce the significant cost that now applies to this group of drivers following changes to the rules governing driver licence renewals for persons over 70 years of age. [3575/19]

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Maire and Sean are a married couple in my constituency in Dublin Mid-West. They both work, and they have worked their entire adult lives in modest wage jobs. They get up early in the morning and they work hard, and they raised their now adult son exceptionally well. In their entire life they had never missed a mortgage payment until Permanent TSB unreasonably hiked up its interest rates...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (29 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of emergency funding for remedial works at an educational centre (details supplied) in County Dublin. [3760/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position of a person (details supplied) on a waiting list for a specific school; and when the person will be accommodated. [3843/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (29 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated towards the repair and refurbishment of local authority housing in budgets 2016 to 2019; the amount allocated specifically towards energy retrofit works; the amount spent by each local authority on energy retrofit works for local authority housing stock in each of the years 2016 to 2018; if funds...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (29 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes that will be targeted for energy retrofitting per year with the roll-out of phase two of the retrofitting programme for social housing stock. [4147/19]