Results 7,781-7,800 of 15,065 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I invite the following question and think I know the answer. Am I correct to say that Part M does not allow almost all of what Ms Carthy has described?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: So that everyone listening to this debate is clear, or people who will listen to this debate or read the transcript, who recommended those standards because they are not in Part M of the building regulations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister were to conduct a review, what do the witnesses want from such a review? How do those standards relate to what seems to me to be a sensible breakdown in the operation of Part M across the water in terms of the three categories of dwellings? Do those two sets of things relate or are they two different sets of standards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: So get rid of the minimum standard stipulated in Part M.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a further question, with the indulgence of the Chair. Do design manuals exist? Are they available? Is there good practice? The Department always tells us it is very busy and has lots of things to do. As approved housing bodies, organisations for persons with disabilities are doing some of this. How difficult would it be to put these design standards into the manual as part of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Something we have not spoken about, but it has been mentioned twice, is exemptions for build-to-rent housing. A large proportion, approximately 40%, of new apartments that have received planning permission in Dublin are built to rent. What standard must they comply with if they do not have to comply with the minimum standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: This means they all have to be compatible with Part M but those apartments built to rent do not have the option of the additional 10%. I presume not all planning applications that use the build-to-buy design standards from the manual avail of the extra 10%. Do we know whether this is the case? We probably do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Universal Design In Building: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It could be in gross floor area.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken any analysis into the reasons for overturned planning decisions, specifically decisions in relation to large windfarms. [38178/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any analysis has been undertaken, including investigation of potential environmental damage or if any corrective actions have taken place in relation to windfarm sites at Derrybrein, Keeper Hill or Meenbog. [38179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has a forum through which concerned citizens and non-Governmental organisations can be briefed and raise concerns or make submissions directly to his Department in relation to potential environmental damage as a consequence of planning and development decisions. [38180/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will set out his social and affordable housing targets for each year from 2022 to 2026, in tabular form; the breakdown for each year by social housing new build, social housing acquisition, cost rental equity loan, Affordable Housing Fund purchase, Land Development Agency cost rental and Land Development Agency...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities make a percentage contribution to all social housing delivery streams including SHIP construction, turnkey construction and acquisitions; and if so, the percentage amount for each delivery stream. [38323/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new build social homes and acquisitions delivered in Q1 2022 broken down by local authority in tabular form; and if he will provide a separate table with the information broken down by delivery stream including SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, SHIP Part V, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, CAS Part V, CALF...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases delivered in Q1 2022 broken down by local authority area and providing an average annual lease cost per local authority in tabular form. [38325/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that he and his Department have taken in the past two years to address the issue of quarries producing defective material or block manufacturers producing defective blocks; the engagements he or his Department have had with the National Building Control Office and local building control authorities; the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total Government expenditure allocated for the first home shared equity scheme for 2022; the number of home purchases that the Government expects this total funding to facilitate in 2022; and the funding that has been approved for the scheme from the Government in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. [38447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 406. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when legislation that will enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to undertake inspections of direct provision centres will be before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if the Reception Conditions Directive 2013/33/EU is being considered in the process; if all direct provision centres will be covered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The starting point is the developer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is inspecting independently before the build.