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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to start in the same way that I started with the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, and that is by expressing my extreme frustration. I think the Minister of State misunderstood me because my frustration predates his taking up of his role. We have been discussing these things since 2017, since the Housing Agency report which highlighted the enormous failures both of central...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am addressing the witness directly and I can do that, with the greatest of respect to the Chair. Eugene, I am also very concerned-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Eugene is not a member of the committee. He is an external member of the CCMA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sure the good Senator would not mind me calling him Eugene. We are on very good terms. I am talking to the witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is Eugene Cummins from the CCMA. I think Mr. Cummins threw out a list of issues there as part of the reason Traveller accommodation can be very difficult. I have 11 very large Traveller-specific sites in my constituency and I deal with these issues every day. The one issue he did not mention, which is part of the problem, is prejudice. We have to get real about this. We have talked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was also directed to Mr. Joyce.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to make clear to Mr. Cummins that it is not and never has been my position that local authorities or local authority management are solely to blame for the scandal of Traveller accommodation. In fact, political parties, particularly the larger ones, my own included, have contributed to this problem, as have wider society and central government. We all have to accept a share of the...

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — average rents increased by 7 per cent in the last year according to the Q2 2021 Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) rent index report; — in the RTB rent index report nine counties experienced average rent increases of more than 10 per cent and all counties experienced average rent increases of more than 4 per cent; —...

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The purpose of tabling this motion tonight was to highlight the abject failure of the Government to provide any immediate, urgent relief for those in the rental sector struggling with sky-high rents. The Government has been in office for nearly 15 months and none of the legislation to which the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, referred has done anything either to stop the upward movement of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Dr. Ryan for his presentation and himself and his team for the answers and all the work they do behind the scenes. His regular appearances at this committee are really important because it gives both us as Oireachtas Members and the wider public an opportunity to see the really important work the EPA is doing on working to improve water and wastewater quality. I commend him and all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I chair from my seat to save me moving?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two supplementary questions and then I will return to the questions we did not get time to deal with initially. Returning to Dr. Ryan's comments with respect to comparisons between Leixlip and the recent incidents, he stated that similar issues arose but were not escalated. The non-escalation is what potentially made the more recent ones more significant. Part of my original...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a supplementary question because that is very interesting. My memory from Leixlip is that four separate alarms were missed. It was only when there was a changeover in staff that the staff member who came in recognised the alarms and took action. Am I right in interpreting that Dr. Minihan is saying that in the cases of Gorey and Ballymore Eustace, alarms were going off for a longer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that mean there is a ten-day period when those excess torpidity levels are in the system and no action is being taken to deal with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Dr. Minihan run through the same timeline with respect to Gorey, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Devlin had a good question about bathing water. Dr. Ryan said that somebody was going to come back to that topic. Perhaps in my last section somebody could reply to that. There were two questions I asked previously that the witnesses did not have time to answer. Could Mr. Byrne come back on when he thinks the 13 agglomerations will be in compliance? Could he also comment on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (20 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual remuneration and expenses allowance per member of the Climate Change Advisory Council in tabular form. [51439/21]