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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I await with great anticipation for the quarter 4 figures on Thursday of next week. If they are on target I will complement Ms Hurley as I do every year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is if it has a statutory basis rather than a policy basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: When we had this discussion at the committee the last day, only two days before that, a municipal district committee of a local authority prevented a Part 8 from going to Part 8, following a dispute. Part of the difficulty - I want to emphasise the Minister of State's point - is that it is either at the informal discussions between managers and councillors, or at the area or municipal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Today the Society of St. Vincent de Paul launched a report entitled, Growing up in the Cold, which exposes the grim reality of thousands of families living in energy poverty. One in six households spends more than 10% of its income on heating and electricity. Older and lone parents are particularly affected. Significantly, the report highlights that 42% of children living in the private...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The great difficulty is that under the Government's two-tier economic recovery, increasing numbers of people are being left far behind. There is a fuel allowance but it comes nowhere close to covering the rising cost of fuel. Retrofitting of local authority stock is ongoing but one must wait for two to three years to get one's windows or doors replaced. The new standards for building are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Page 127 of the programme for Government promises to invest additional capital to fund major public transport projects and to fund additional capacity to meet existing and future commuter needs. Today is the deadline for public submissions on the second draft of the BusConnects plan. Many of us in this House will have made detailed submissions to try to improve the final product. However,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question was about buses that are already at over capacity.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." As everybody in this Chamber knows, rents are completely out of control. A quick look on daft.ietoday confirms this. In Cork city, the cost of renting a standard two-bedroom home is €16,000 per year. In Lucan, which is in my constituency, the cost is an astonishing €24,000. Across the electoral boundary, in Castleknock in...

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. The Minister is misleading the House. Our party was not opposed to-----

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Cathaoirleach, he is misleading the House.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Thanks to Deputy Noonan and his delay. Thanks to Fine Gael Ministers blocking that Bill.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amend the Bill.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In our alternative budget if the Minister bothered to read it. Two years in a row we published-----

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We need affordable apartments.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rents have increased by 24% in three years.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin asked the Minister to do that in 2016.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has the Minister taken advice from the Attorney General on it?

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will do our best.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is this the standard of debate in the House?