Results 7,821-7,840 of 15,065 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across again, but is it Ms Donaghy's understanding the council's members will have access to the burden-sharing mechanism the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, has introduced? Has the council got the technical detail of that yet? In there sense of whether that is going to work or not?
- 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: I thank the Department and the Housing Agency for sticking with us this late in the evening. At the start, I asked Ms Timmons whether there was consideration of a no-penalty downsizing. If somebody was to get a grant of €160,000 but the full cost of demolition and rebuild was €190,000, it would seem to be reasonable that a person could take the €160,000 and build a...
- 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: One gets less money.
- 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: I am being very careful but if one reduces the grant, it is essentially a form of penalty. We may not agree on that-----
- 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: -----but I am choosing my words very carefully.
- 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: I respect that fully. I will make an appeal because there are a few weeks left for this to go. In the case that a homeowner is awarded a grant of €160,000 but, when it comes to hiring a contractor to replace like for like, it will cost €180,000, €190,000 or €200,000, I appeal to Ms Timmons, in her private conversations with her colleagues and the Minister, to...
- 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: Is there likely to be some money in the budget this year for that or is it being discussed in the Department?
- 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: Could local authorities and approved housing bodies expect some budgetary provision for next year to finance some of that work?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Jul 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: 348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that have been put in place to assist local authorities and approved housing bodies to deal with construction sector inflation for contracts signed pre-2022, since 1 January 2022 and for contracts not yet signed but under consideration whether for construction or turnkey under the social housing investment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Again, as this is important, is Ms Donaghy saying there are certain types of fixed-price contracts where there will be a flexibility but there are other kinds of contracts that the council signs with contractors where there will not be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy McAuliffe has not spoken yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will pick up on Deputy McAuliffe's point because this is an important discussion. Dublin city will have a problem both on affordable cost rental and affordable purchase under the affordable housing fund. Deputy McAuliffe outlined price ranges and if we go to the suburbs or the project mentioned by Mr. Doyle earlier, they are generally out of inner urban Dublin sites in various ways. That...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: And on the VAT?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I ask for the Chair's indulgence. From an embodied carbon point of view, in particular, linking lower embodied carbon residential developments with a reduced VAT rate makes an awful lot of sense. I was asking about VAT for new build social housing because that is kind of different. Is there a reason that would work for new build social housing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Donaghy is making a case for a P&A that is full-cost recovery of to finance construction management-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear for the clarity of the committee, it is not just the loan, it is management-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is basically the gap between the differential rent. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----and all of the costs over the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is why the directors of housing local authorities look so enviously at that particular funding model. They would not mind having it too.