Results 781-800 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

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 query brings us back to the very first question because Deputy Colm Brophy is obviously trying to work out what would be the extra cost to the State of the abolition of water charges. From the extra €200 million one would have to subtract the cost of paying the water conservation grant and the costs of billing. Therefore, the real cost-----

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.

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 understanding of Deputy Colm Brophy's question is that he wants to know, if water charges are abolished, what will be the extra cost to the taxpayer. The answer was that it would be in the region of €200 million. I am saying the cost of paying the water conservation grant of €100 million and the figure of €24 million for billing costs would have to be taken from that...

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: Will the NewEra report which I understand will be redacted provide clarity on current and future borrowing costs of Irish Water? That is one of the issues on which we really want clarity. What is the cost involved?

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: Yes, as well as, projected into the future, the cost of the capital investment programme of Irish Water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman and Deputy Cowen. I suggest that we ask our questions on a pillar-by-pillar basis. I have questions under each pillar and doing as I suggest might make it easier procedurally, if that is okay. On pillar 1, I do not want to start on a sour note but we already know most of the information in the presentation. It is information of which we are aware because we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: So none has been approved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: When does Mr. Walsh expect approvals to start?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is the second or third review meeting but we have ended up with the same difficulty. That is not a criticism of the officials. We have discussed one and a half pillars so the next review-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not criticising anybody but we will need more time for the next review. On the Airbnb issue, yesterday there were 1,500 properties available to rent in Dublin on the market and 6,500 properties on the Airbnb website. I know a large number are for short letting but a very large number are for long-term letting. My worry is that if the working group only reports back in the second...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Tánaiste knows, a cross-departmental working group is examining legislation to ensure the responsibilities of landlords under the Residential Tenancies Acts apply to banks, vulture funds and receivers when they repossess properties. There was disturbing news in the Irish Examinertoday that approximately 20,000 mortgage repossession cases that were adjourned will be back before...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the November homelessness report published on 30 December 2016 does not include all those persons in State-funded emergency accommodation; if he will ensure that the figures will in future include those persons in domestic violence emergency accommodation funded by Tusla and those in the Department of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures the Minister's Department produces every month on homelessness are not accurate. They do not include adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence shelters or step-down accommodation. They do not include non-Irish nationals in emergency accommodation funded by the new communities unit. Crucially, they do not include those families trapped in direct provision having got...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a very disappointing response. The Minister is essentially admitting these figures are not accurate but he is not willing to change their method of collation. None of the three categories of people I talked about pertains to people in care. If a family is put out of its home as a result of domestic violence, it is put into a domestic violence emergency accommodation shelter. That...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to contribute again, but I would not mind if the Minister used his two minutes afterwards.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures are not accurate. That is the problem. I will raise a further point, and I look forward to hearing the Minister's response on Home Sweet Home. For the second month in a row, a number of other Deputies and I were disappointed by the timing of the release of the figures. It is difficult not to draw the conclusion that, when the Minister releases figures on 30 December without...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not by me.

Other Questions: Housing Issues (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The kiss of death.

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which he calculated the figure of €14 million as recovered revenue if an excess charge for water was introduced; and if his Department has calculated the amount it would cost to administer such a scheme. [2137/17]

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In a report in The Sunday Timeson 4 January it was suggested the Minister had indicated in an interview that a charge for excess water usage would yield in the region of €14 million annually. Is the report accurate? If it is, on what basis did he derive that figure? If it is not accurate, has the Department done any calculations or had discussions with Irish Water about what a...