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Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Those of us with more Members are struggling with the schedule. It is not your fault.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not this time anyway.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to make a quick clarification on this amendment. I do not wish to comment on it.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I should have asked this earlier and thank the Ceann Comhairle for his indulgence. Will the Minister of State explain why "colocation" remains? The purpose of coexistence is the language from the directive. What is the value of this? I do not oppose the amendment, but I would like clarification on why "colocation" is being left in rather than replaced with "coexistence" which was agreed...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(3) Notwithstanding anything elsewhere in this Act, the competent authority (D) shall prepare a DMAP, or any amendment to a DMAP, in accordance with the following sections, and as if the reference to “MSP” in those sections was construed to read “draft DMAP”, and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: House prices, as the Tánaiste knows, are out of control and homeownership continues to be in decline. He and his partners have been in government for ten years and during that period, house prices have increased by 42%. In Dublin city the increase is a shocking 88%. Thanks to Fine Gael housing policy it is now more difficult to buy a home than ever before. Fine Gael claims to the be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Tánaiste. What he does not seem to understand is the KPMG report is based on this Government meeting the targets outlined in its recent housing plan. What the report, which is based on the most up-to-date information from the CSO and ESRI and all the Government's target projections for social, affordable and private housing, is saying very clearly to the Government is that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do not tempt fate.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government committed to examining the issue of latent building defects within the first year. A working group was set up and the expectation was that it would report to the Government in June of this year. Unfortunately, that deadline has been missed. As a consequence, tens of thousands of homeowners across the State will tonight sleep in homes with significant fire...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State knows, I like to think of myself as a very reasonable person and as somebody who will genuinely listen to the arguments the Government puts forward for the various measures it introduces. When it does something right, I will support it, when it does something poor, I will not oppose it, but I will highlight the inadequacies, and then, on many occasions, when I...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy is completely misrepresenting what I said.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Kehoe should be honest in representing what I said.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is simply not the case.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the automatic extension of notice periods with respect to residential tenancies where a tenant is certified as at risk of homelessness and for that purpose to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. As the House knows, homelessness among adults and children has increased...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Paul Donnelly, on bringing forth this important motion. Like others, and as all Deputies who contribute to the debate this evening probably will do, I pay tribute to the men and women of the Dublin Fire Brigade, our firefighters, ambulance staff and paramedics. I do not think there is a Member of this House who, either directly from family experience or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action his Department can take in cases in which local authorities fail to protect the health of residents living adjacent to large construction sites in which such sites are clearly in breach of planning conditions leading to unacceptable levels of noise, vibration and dust. [60014/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the construction defects working group; when he expects to receive the report of the group; and when he expects to put in place a redress scheme for homeowners with fire safety and other structural defects. [60292/21]