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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the National Emergency Co-ordination Group: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are often critical of the people who appear before the committee and we give them a relatively hard time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the National Emergency Co-ordination Group: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is done in a good way and is part of our job. My experience of emergency service workers on the ground and the emergency co-ordination team leaves very little room for criticism. I agree with some of the comments made by previous speakers, but they are primarily criticisms or questions for the Government around legislation or politics. Looking back at the handling of the most recent two...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (4 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 151. To ask the Minister for Health when Spinraza will be made available for children with spinal muscular atrophy. [15851/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (4 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish the annual breakdown of expenditure on homeless services for 2018; and the reason for the delay in the publication of this report. [15802/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the reason for the significant variance in the cost of the management and maintenance in the first tranche of social housing public private partnership, PPP, programme bundle contract compared with similar projects being delivered by an approved housing body or a local authority; and his plans to review these costs...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Figures I have received from the Department in the past two weeks suggest a significant variance in the cost for the delivery, management and maintenance of social housing from traditional approved housing bodies and local authority compared with the first bundle of the public private partnership, PPP, houses under construction. Will the Minister give us as much detail as possible about the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: None of what the Minister of State said reassures me that there is not a significant cost variance between approved housing body availability, payment agreements and public private partnerships. At the heart of this is the public sector benchmark, which is used to calculate that so-called value for money exercise. None of us get to see it. There is no transparency around it and we are not...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I understand properly, the Minister of State has not seen the public sector benchmark, so he cannot unequivocally say that this represents value for money and he is taking it on trust. If one takes two housing projects that commenced construction today, the public private partnership that is currently under construction and traditional social housing delivered by a local authority and an...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even though the Minister of State has not seen it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the key.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the significant increase in the number of institutional investors in the residential property market and the impact this is having on security of tenure and affordability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16413/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will be aware, during the past two years we have lost approximately 12,000 rental properties according to the Residential Tenancies Board as a result of accidental buy-to-let landlords exiting the market. We have also seen a significant increase in the level of institutional investment in recent years, both with respect to building and the buying up of blocks of apartments....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: An aspect of the Minister's reply that concerns me is that it does not address a particular part of what is happening in the rental sector not only here but globally, which is certain types of institutional investors with certain types of business models have a very clear role in driving up the price both of land and of rent or purchase properties but also they can add to increasing levels of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The difficulty is that we replace one level of instability with another level of instability. Again, I draw the Minister's attention to what is happening in a number of large European cities, where large institutional investors are not long-term professional landlords in the way the Minister has described but short-term funds looking for short-term gain. Of course, here, for those...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will be aware, when the four-year schools capital programme was announced last year, there was to be an eight-classroom primary school established in the Newcastle-Rathcoole-Saggart schools planning area. While this announcement was welcomed, there was some surprise that the school was to be located down in the Citywest-Fortunestown end of the area, rather than, as everybody...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. It is a little disappointing, although in fairness, I would not expect him to have the full details of some of the changes taking place. It is important for him to understand there are very significant demographic and residential changes occurring in this area, both at the Citywest end of the school area and in Rathcoole and Newcastle. The concern Deputy...

An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is hard to understand why any party in this House would oppose this Bill. Since the Lisbon treaty, there has been a step change in the development of a European Union common defence policy. It is worthwhile reminding ourselves what that step change involved. Article 28 of that treaty committed member states, "to make civilian and military capabilities available to the Union for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the significant increase in the number of institutional investors in the residential property market and the impact this is having on security of tenure and affordability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16413/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the ongoing delay in bringing forward the quality standards and inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16410/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that 12,474 rental properties have been lost to the private rental sector since January 2017; and the steps he will take to address this disorderly exit of rental properties from the market. [16409/19]