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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: In a report published this morning, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has called on the Government to double public investment in public housing. It has called for investment in the region of €4 billion annually. It states this would deliver 18,000 public homes to meet not just social but affordable housing need for working families. Of course, Sinn Féin has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have to say to the Tánaiste that this is no laughing matter. Fine Gael has been in government for ten years and not a single affordable home to rent or buy has been delivered by any Government scheme. Why is that? It is because its policy is all about big investors and big developers. It is about sweetheart deals for cuckoos and vultures and sweetheart land deals for big developers...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Invest and build in new homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is what the ESRI recommends. Invest and build the homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not populist nonsense. Is the ESRI report populist nonsense?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: In ten years not a single affordable home has been built by the Government. Shame on the Tánaiste.

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, for his opening remarks. The failure of the State, both local and central, for decades, if not for generations, to adequately meet the needs of our Traveller community is a scandal. It is probably the worst and most scandalous element of our failing housing system. In every county and constituency there are Traveller-specific sites which can...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to take five minutes to ensure that others get to speak. I thank People Before Profit, Solidarity and Rise for re-tabling this legislation. Sinn Féin was happy to support it in the previous Dáil and we will be enthusiastically supporting it this evening. We tabled a similar Bill in the previous Dáil and have introduced one on First Stage this year as part of our...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 8, line 4, to delete “Land Development Agency” and substitute “Active Land Management Agency”. I wish to seek one quick clarification that might help me and the Minister work our way through this list. There are four very large groupings of amendments. Is the Chairman going to take the amendments one by one to get through the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but the Minister will have to respond to each one of these groupings. Might it be easier to take them in little chunks to speed up the discussion?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This amendment speaks to the fundamental difference between our party's approach to this new agency and the Government's. When the agency was first mooted in the national planning framework, it was quite clear that the purpose of the agency was to be primarily in the area of active land management, something for which the NESC, the ESRI, the Housing Agency and others have called for a very...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said, this is the first in a series of amendments that seek to shift the focus of the Bill onto active land management. I will move on to my second amendment in this grouping, amendment No. 13. The Minister will be able to see very clearly what we are trying to do here in respect of active land management. The function of the agency should be to assemble land and, as amendment No. 13...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to the three amendments of mine. A change in this Bill does not in any way delay any development. In fact, if you take Shanganagh Castle as a case in point, it is the involvement of the LDA that has delayed that development by more than three years. To their great credit, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown county councillors unanimously approved a broad outline of a scheme for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be helpful and move things on, I will also speak to my other amendments, which are part of the group of amendments Nos. 75 to 85, because they are consequent to the discussion. Deputy McAuliffe and the Minister asked a very important question, which is why would one prevent the LDA from being a residential developer and there are a number of very good reasons. First, because the LDA,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief. To reassure Deputy Higgins, the Opposition takes its role on Committee Stage very seriously given we were denied pre-legislative scrutiny on this Bill. It is a fundamentally different Bill from the former Minister, Eoghan Murphy's earlier version, as the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, rightly reminded us of. The purpose of this Committee Stage, as I understand it, is twofold....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to fully support amendment No. 2 and to speak to my amendment No. 3, which is broadly trying to do the same thing. This is an important and key element of the Bill and it is where the Opposition is united in trying to ensure that the maximum number of affordable homes are delivered on any site that is being developed by the Land Development Agency. In his response to me when...