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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I am sure the Minister is aware, the Irish Green Building Council, IGBC, launched an important report last November on foot of research it commissioned from University College Dublin on how to deliver the increased number of homes and other construction projects that will be built in the future in a way that allows us to meet our legally binding emissions reduction targets. The report not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Among the significant findings of the UCD research commissioned by the Irish Green Building Council is that, first, the urban environment or the built environment is responsible for more than 30% of our current emissions, equal to areas such as agriculture or energy and transport which get much more public attention. Second, the research shows that, even with the retrofitting programme the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree the Oireachtas committee would be a good place to advance this discussion. The Minister of State may wish to use his influence with the committee Chairman to assist in that regard. It would also be useful to hear at Oireachtas committee level what are the preparations of the Department for those legally binding targets that will have a profound impact on the work of the Department,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rental Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the Minister’s response as he knows that I wrote both to himself and to the Minister, Deputy McEntee, at the end of last year and early this year on this issue. Like Deputy O’Callaghan, I firmly believe that legislation is going to be required to outlaw this abhorrent behaviour. I pay tribute to Ann Murphy of the Irish Examinerwhose sterling investigative journalism...

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will start by thanking Senator Flynn and all of the members on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community for both their hard work and for this very important report. I would also like to acknowledge the fact the Government gave time to Senator Flynn to speak with us today. I hope this is not the last time that she speaks on this issue on behalf of the...

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the eligibility thresholds for social housing. [12048/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of developer provided infrastructure that has not yet been taken in charge by Irish Water [12049/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. McCormack and Ms Foreman for their presentation and report. I think they will find a receptive audience in the committee. We have all experienced good community gardens and allotments, but also the challenges they face. In my constituency, we had to threaten legal action against the diocese, which was attempting to relinquish land which actually belonged to South Dublin County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not think Deputy Gould is here but I know he wanted to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let Deputy McAuliffe come in and I will take the next slot if Deputy Gould does not show up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a few comments rather than any questions. It seems to me this is one of those issues where, with a relatively small amount of work at Government and local government level, we could make many big advances. I know Deputy McAuliffe was not being negative in any way, but I do not think very complicated legislation is needed. A legislative basis could be created with some simple...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If we get into too much detail in our letter to the Minister, it will be almost like we are pre-empting the work. We need a letter that sets out a number of broad principles that are consistent with the Chairman's recommendations and some of our conversation. We should be informing the Minister that we have had this really important conversation, that there was broad unanimity among the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State may or may not be aware, the idea of a statutory register is older than he is. It started its life in a Law Reform Commission report recommending its creation in the 1970s. The proposition was strongly resisted by the Construction Industry Federation, CIF, and not only by its equivalent at the time but also by architects, engineers and chartered surveyors. It died...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The timeline for the statutory register is clear in the Bill but it does not address the question both Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and I are raising as to why a parallel skills register would not enhance what is being proposed in the Bill and would not be good for the industry overall. The idea of a skills register is that it makes clear what the skills requirements are, and the register will be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps if, at a later stage, the Minister of State is in a position to share a note with the committee on that work, that would be very helpful for us.