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Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to notify the House that last night in Dublin a group of 100 citizens occupied a building in Tara Street in which NAMA has an interest, as part of the Home Sweet Home campaign to highlight the plight of homelessness in the city and the need for even more action from the Government. I commend them on what they have done. They are citizens who are appalled by the level of homelessness...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is his second.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support the amendments that have been tabled. We have had a very detailed discussion of this part of the legislation, which is probably the most significant part of it. Myself and a number of other Deputies tabled very detailed amendments at Committee Stage. It is not my intention to repeat the detail of all of those. I would just like to make some general comments, if I can. I thank...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 75, 76, 80 and 83 cover issues about which I feel very strongly about and which I pursued on Committee Stage. Two of the amendments seek to improve security of tenure by removing the sale of property as a ground for giving notice to quit and by moving from ten-year tenancies to tenancies of indefinite duration. I endorse what Deputy Jan O'Sullivan said about the Focus...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 55:To delete the proposed amendment no. 55 and substitute the following:“Amendment of section 19 (setting of rent above market rent prohibited) of Act of 2004 32. Section 19 of the Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (2):“(3) The setting of rent under the tenancy of a dwelling that is...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11 to amendment No. 68:In section 24B(1), to insert following after paragraph (e):"(f) Cork County Council; (g) Limerick City and County Council; (h) Waterford City and County Council; (i) Galway City Council; (j) any Local Electoral Areas or District Electoral Divisions where rent price inflation has been 5 per cent or above on the preceding 12 months as determined...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 75:In page 38, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 28 of Act of 200433. The Act of 2004 is amended in section 28(2)(a) by the substitution of "for the period of ten years from" for "for the period of 4 years from".".

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 76:In page 38, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 28 of Act of 200433. The Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion of the following new subsection:"(5) The Minster may by way of regulation extend the duration of a Part 4 tenancy from ten years to a period of indefinite duration.".".

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 83:In page 38, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 34(b) Table 3 of the Act of 200434. The Act of 2004 is amended by the deletion of “3. The landlord intends, within 3 months after the termination of the tenancy under this section, to enter into an enforceable agreement for the transfer to another, for full consideration,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Taoiseach knows the November homeless figures showed, yet again, a further rise in the number of people living in emergency accommodation, with 6,985 people in such accommodation, including 2,549 children. In addition to the lack of supply of social housing, the lack of adequate private rental accommodation is feeding this crisis. Today in Dublin there are only 1,564 properties...

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sharing time with Deputy Ellis. It gives me no pleasure to say the Minister's private rental strategy, launched in December, is without doubt the weakest part of the housing action plan of the current Government. The fact that it was launched so late in the year has meant we have not had an opportunity in this House to fully scrutinise the entire plan, short as it is. We obviously...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimated breakdown of the 23,036 social housing units to be provided under Rebuilding Ireland by unit type, including local authority new build, approved housing body new build, Part V acquisition, and void and or refurb; and if he will confirm that all void figures are the return of long...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all social housing new build projects which are currently making their way through his department's four stage approval process, broken down by local authority area, indicating whether they are LA or AHB and indicating the stage in the approval process they are at and when tenanting is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to cede the floor if it is an issue. I do not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will first make a general comment. It is important for the committee to be clear that there are two separate funding issues in this discussion. The first is water charges as a contribution to the operational costs of the utility and the impact the abolition of water charges would have on the Government's deficit and on meeting the fiscal targets. A separate issue is water charges as part...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that mean the debt figure would be €239 million minus €100 million minus €24 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Ms Graham have a figure for the possible complete subvention of group and private water schemes for domestic usage to go from the partial subsidy at present to a complete subsidy, if-----