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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is the issue of section 5 referrals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is part of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: She is confident in the Attorney General.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will pick up on Deputy Flaherty's points about the regulator and planning. As Ms Graham will know, I was very critical of the weakness of the legislation. There is a lot of confusion in the debates. This is not just a rural battle because the good people of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council have been in battle with the regulator on a not dissimilar point. However, the regulator...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to allow the Minister of State to answer Deputy Boyd Barrett's question.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State. My apologies for being late. Unfortunately, I have just come from a meeting to try to finalise amendments to another Bill for which amendments have to be submitted by 11 a.m. tomorrow, in spite of the fact that Second Stage of the Bill has not even started, let alone finished and, apparently, we will only be given a very short amount of time. As regards...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: May I make a final response? I will not labour the point but our job is not just to say whether we are for or against what the Government is doing. Deputies Cian O'Callaghan, Boyd Barrett and I spend a lot of time in committee. We take our job as legislators very seriously. Even when it comes to the things the Government is doing that we support, we want to make sure the language and the...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: You are the boss.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (28 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 386. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a French military exercise is taking place off the south-west coast of Ireland during the end of June and early July 2022; if notification of the exercise was provided to his Department; and if there are concerns about the impact on marine biodiversity as a result of the exercise. [33781/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the education supports and school place options that are available for a child (details supplied) who is currently unable to access a school place appropriate to their special needs. [33635/22]

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome homeowners from Clare, Limerick, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal, who are in the Gallery today. I commend all of them, and all affected homeowners, many of whom have been campaigning for a decade. In particular, I commend them on the incredibly intense level of campaigning over the past 12 months, on the streets and on social media, and their engagement with the Minister and his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of affordable purchase homes that have been delivered to date; the local authority areas in which they have been delivered; the sales price of the properties and the income limit for eligible purchasers for each size and type of home in tabular form. [35135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of affordable cost rental homes that have been delivered to date; the local authority areas in which they have been delivered; and the rents being charged by each size and type of home in tabular form. [35136/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (30 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 295. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has plans to regulate the e-cigarette market. [35133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (30 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the commitments made in the programme for Government related to e-cigarettes, including the proposed ban on the sale of these products to persons under 18 years of age; and the proposed licensing system for the retail sale of nicotine inhaling products. [35134/22]

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State. Sinn Féin will support the motion. The issue the motion relates to and the directive itself are enormously important in having an EU-wide set of minimum standards for protecting individuals, journalists, human rights advocates and, more particularly, residents' associations, and environmental and non-governmental organisations, which is vital. Given...

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make no apology for this. It is in the public domain, it has been reported in the newspapers and it is a matter before the courts. These are precisely the kind of cases - I will not name any individuals - where company names have been reported in the public domain. I want to repeat them in the Chamber. I will not go beyond anything that is in the public domain, if that is okay....

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his opening remarks. Despite the rather technical and dry nature of this legislation, it is important to remind the House that it has the potential to have profound impacts on the lives of entire communities. We have spoken previously, when we dealt with the predecessor to this legislation and the general scheme of this Bill, about Derrybrien. It is probably one of...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, line 18, to delete “both” and substitute “these". My colleagues and I object in the strongest possible terms to the way in which Committee Stage of this legislation is being rammed through today. The pre-legislative scrutiny phase was truncated. Committee members did everything we could to ensure some level of scrutiny of the...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, to delete line 24 and substitute the following: “ “dwelling” means any property prescribed as such by the Minister by way of regulations;”. This is another one of those amendments that is of a technical nature. It inserts into the definitions section a different definition of "dwelling". One of the many concerns that...