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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 676. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the new range of activities Greyhound Racing Ireland is planning to cover as part of its’ new serious injury scheme due to be introduced in early 2022. [60465/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the new greyhound traceability system which is a basic operational requirement will not be funded from the mandatory 10% ringfenced for animal welfare. [60466/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the fact that according to Greyhound Racing Ireland the contribution to the greyhound welfare and to an organisation (details supplied) in 2020 was €1,191,547 which amounts to 8.56% of expenditure and not the mandatory 10% that should be ringfenced for welfare; if he will request that the shortfall is made up in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 679. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a full breakdown will be provided of all injuries and fatalities sustained by greyhounds at race events since 2019, in tabular form; the person or body that collects that data at race events (details supplied). [60468/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request that a veterinarian be present at all official and unofficial trials to ensure that injured greyhounds are treated without delay and that all injuries and or fatalities can be recorded for public record. [60469/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the information that is collected at unofficial trials by the staff of an organisation (details supplied). [60470/21]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to speak specifically to my amendments Nos. 3, 4 and 7 but I am also supporting the amendments of colleagues. The bottom line is that rents are too high and tenants simply cannot absorb any level of rent increase at this stage. We know, for example, that because new rental properties are not subject to the rent pressure zone caps, they are coming in at excessively high levels in some...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, lines 28 and 29, to delete “the relevant percentage” and substitute “0 per cent”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, to delete lines 1 to 3.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support the amendment. It is important to note that since the previous Government introduced its strategy for the private rental sector in 2016 to the end of 2020, we have lost more than 20,000 properties from the private rental sector. We do not yet have the data for 2021. At the same time, rents during that period have increased by 30% to 40%. What we got under the previous...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11: “In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 19B of Principal Act 4.The Principal Act is amended in section 19B(3) by the insertion of “where such a payment is part of a combined payment, including tuition and materials to a third level educational institution as prescribed by way of regulation by the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The rationale the Minister of State has given for the original provision, that is, that students might choose to pay more rent over a period of time to manage their financial affairs, is not the rationale that was given to us either by officials or the Minister when that legislation was passed. We were told the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science made...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support both these amendments and I will add one additional point. We still have some anomalies because rent pressure zones are calculated on the basis of local electoral areas, LEAs, and data provided to the Minister by the Residential Tenancies Board. In a certain number of locations, such as Cork city and county, half an LEA is subject to very substantial rent increases and the other...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to speak to amendment No. 22. Section 5 contains a real deceit. I am choosing my words very carefully. For several weeks, the Minister has been on the airwaves telling people that this legislation will introduce tenancies of unlimited duration. The Minister of State used the same phrase on Second Stage last week. A tenancy of "unlimited" or "indefinite" duration has a clear...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support both Deputy Pringle's amendments, as well as his comments and those of Deputies McAuliffe, Matthews and Boyd Barrett. Many of us have been arguing for quite some time that the earlier you involve third parties in any planning process, the better outcomes we get for everybody. However, I wish to put on record a slightly different view to a number of the comments. I absolutely...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was 25 storeys.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not know whether the Minister is deliberately misrepresenting the intention behind this amendment or just does not understand it.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody on this side of the House is arguing against consistency or the right of the Government to frame policy. The specific problem with the section 28 mandatory ministerial guidelines is that they enable the Minister to institute profound changes to planning law without a single vote being taken in this House. That is the problem. As a direct result of the two sets of section 28...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of direct provision centres that have invoiced his Department for the purchase of period products since March 2021; and if free period products are readily available at all direct provision centres. [60604/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 135. To ask the Minister for Health when the Free Provision of Period Products Bill 2021 will progress to committee stage. [60605/21]