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Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not only has the Tánaiste confirmed that it is the intention of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to deny the right of the committee to elect its own Chairman, unlike the other two special committees established since the start of the Thirty-second Dáil, she has also confirmed that the Government is imposing on the Seanad one of its four nominees. Ordinarily, when an Oireachtas...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that, with all of the U-turns, Fianna Fáil is confused about its own position and does not like to hear people remind it of this fact. My question is very simple. Why, for the first time since this Dáil was formed, is the Government seeking to impose a Chairman on a special committee contrary to ordinary procedure? Why for the first time, probably in decades, is the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I warmly welcome the comments of the Taoiseach yesterday on the move to recognise Traveller ethnicity. This is long overdue and has been welcomed by many organisations, including Traveller advocacy organisations and human rights and equality organisations. A report is to go to the social affairs committee but the House would like to know when we can expect the introduction of the...

Establishment of Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1:To delete subsection (f) the Chairman of the Joint Committee shall be Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh; This amendment proposes to remove subsection (f) from the motion. I do not dispute the majority of what the Minister said. He spoke to many of us by telephone last Wednesday when he outlined the overall composition of the committee. We accepted him on his...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Management (29 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 678. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is anything prohibiting local councils from continuing to grant licences to small pay-by-bag domestic waste collectors while he is examining the future of pay-by-weight regulations following the suspension of their introduction by him earlier this year; and if he will consider the position of small pay-by-bag...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." For four years the cost of renting a home has spiralled upwards. According to the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, the average rent for a one-bedroom home in Dublin has increased by 24%. That is an extra €2,940 per year. The average increase for a two-bedroom home has been 21%, an extra €3,204 per year. In Cork, the home...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I suspect the tens of thousands of families struggling with excessive rents would disagree. I suspect the families living in emergency accommodation would also disagree. The thousands of people who have signed the Secure Rents Campaign online petition definitely disagree. The reason we have brought forward this Bill is that we are seeking to put pressure on the Minister and his colleagues...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are happy to take the Minister of State's extra seven minutes, if the Ceann Comhairle will give it to us.

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Independents4Change, the Labour Party, the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and others not only for supporting this Bill, but for co-signing it, which sends a very important signal to the other parties in the House and to the public. I would also like to congratulate the Secure Rents campaigners and urge them to keep up the...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a simple, sensible and modest Bill. Any Deputy who claims to have compassion on this issue should be ashamed of themselves if they do not vote for this legislation.

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Vótáil.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I may not need the time and I thank the Deputy for that. This is significant legislation. I acknowledge the Minister's sincerity in terms of what he is trying to do with this Bill, notwithstanding areas where I have concerns or where Sinn Féin has outlined disagreement in the debate on the Bill in the Seanad. We accept what the Minister is trying to achieve in all aspects of the Bill....

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I need about four minutes extra.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. The threshold of five applies to less than 10% of landlords and less than 25% of tenancies. That means we are creating a two-tier protection for tenants who are at risk of homelessness, one for those in that 25% of tenancies and then everybody else. I just cannot support it and I will be tabling an amendment to reduce it to one....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 28. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of international public funding models for fertility treatment; if he has received the Health Research Board review of international public funding models for fertility treatment; when he will receive and publish it in view of the fact it is due before the end of 2016; when the general scheme of legislative provisions dealing with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (1 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 41. To ask the Minister for Health the private hospitals and health providers that are under contract with the NTPF, National Treatment Purchase Fund, and his Department and the HSE with respect to the provision of services and surgeries that are not being met publicly or where there are extensive waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37857/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (6 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if all pre-2011 RAS tenants are eligible to remain on their local authorities housing lists and have access to allocations from the primary housing list or choice based letting systems. [38362/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: International Conventions (6 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he sought legal opinion from the Attorney General on whether the strategic housing section of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 complies with Ireland's EU and international obligations under the Aarhus Convention; and if so, if he will publish this advice. [38444/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Homeless Persons Data (6 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department provides the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government with the number of homeless adults and children in his Department's funded accommodation services; and if he will engage with his counterparts in the Departments of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Children and Youth Affairs...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Persons Data (6 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 488. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department does not provide the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government with the number of homeless adults and children in Tusla-funded accommodation services; and if she will engage with her counterparts in the Departments of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Social Protection and...