Results 4,881-4,900 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: County Development Plans (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in issuing the updated county development plan guidance and the methodology for the housing demand needs assessment to local authorities; his views on whether this delay will have a negative impact on those local authorities that are at an advanced stage in their development plan review; and when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department in responding to the collective complaint brought to the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg regarding conditions in local authority properties; and the breakdown of those costs by type including legal fees, communications, research and any other category that may be relevant. [7133/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension of employment on a community employment scheme will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) given continued occupational focus would be greatly beneficial to the person. [7166/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (11 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the hiring process by which he made the recent appointments to the CCAC. [7683/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and its review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; the details on the stated need to consider environmental assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (11 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to legislate to encourage the uptake of life cycle assessment and-or to promote such assessments through green public procurement in future public housing developments. [7689/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) Regulations 2021 and Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2021: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (16 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for the presentation. I have no difficulty whatsoever with the EV regulations. I have one question with regard to the temporary school buildings, however. If I am right, the regulations talk about a period of five years. I am keen to understand why that period of five years is locked into the regulations. Obviously, none of us wants to stand in the way of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I confirm to the Chairman that I am in Leinster House. Due to the limited time I will go straight into questions. I have three questions, one for each of our guests. With respect to Dr. O'Toole's concerns that the shared equity loan for private purchases would push up house prices, I presume it is his view that the bigger that fund the greater the risk of inflation. We know, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The first question was to Dr. O'Toole, the second to Mr. John O'Connor and the third to Dr. Larry O'Connell.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sharing my time with Deputy Gould. A deceit is beginning to creep into a part of our debate on housing which suggests that the policy of the new Government is in some way different from that of its predecessor. In fact, when one looks at the evidence it is very clear that we are seeing more of the same. Budget 2021 was a clear example. There was just an extra €124 million for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the 390 cost rental units announced on 8 February 2021; the location of the units; the typologies of the units; the rent to be charged on the units; if these units are in turnkey developments that were already in the respective approved housing bodies social housing pipeline; and if not, if they are additional...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the completion of the various phases of the development with respect to the Land Development Agency and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council development in Shanganagh, Shankill, County Dublin; the commencement date for the development; the expected sales price of the affordable purchase units; the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Land Development Agency has completed an assessment of the suitability of the State-owned site at Thornton Hall, Kilsallaghan, County Dublin for housing; if so, if it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8469/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of the temporary accommodation and the new school building for a school (details supplied); and the timelines for commencement and completion of both projects. [8441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Facilities (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the evidence base from the Irish Prison Service report will be published which proposes that an increase in the Irish population requires the creation of additional prison spaces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8470/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 621. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the framework agreements for potential new prison infrastructure in Thornton Hall are based on low-security open prisons or high-security closed prisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8471/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending medical cards to cancer patients; the cost of doing so to all cancer patients without medical cards and all cancer party ends without medical cards and private health insurance. [7990/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Car Parks (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing a scheme to waive hospital car parking fees for cancer patients. [7991/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 814. To ask the Minister for Health if prisoners are included in group 8 residents of long-term care facilities aged 18-64 years of the provisional vaccine allocation groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8472/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 815. To ask the Minister for Health if older prisoners and those with medical conditions will receive vaccinations on the same schedule as older persons in the community based on the principle of equity of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8473/21]