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Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the opportunity to participate in this important debate. When the public and media discussion about Dublin city hit the headlines in recent weeks, one thing that struck me was that everybody was looking for somebody to blame. The reality is that in our capital city right now, nobody is really in charge. The way in which our system of local government is set up, councils, both...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons in receipt of disability allowance who are currently on a training course with an organisation (details supplied) have been excluded from receiving the disability support grant; and if this will be reconsidered given that those taking part in training courses are experiencing the increasing costs of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Graham for her opening statement. I do not know what Mr. Gallagher or Ms Murray did wrong in a previous life to warrant having responsibility for An Bord Pleanála but I share their pain, if that is any consolation. I will make some opening comments before asking some specific questions on the heads. One of the crucial things about any change to the operation of the board is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: To go back to the committee, the original legislation actually stipulates the individuals or organisations to be on the committee for the appointment of the chair. Was consideration given to a similar mechanism so that while one might get rid of the panels, the organisations that nominate the panels might have been on the committee. Was there consideration of that? Second, has there been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Construction Industry Register Ireland, CIRI, legislation stipulated some organisations. We have had recent legislation where specific organisations are named as having positions on committees or boards, etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Ms Graham comment on "may" or "shall"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The real question is, if the chair of the board or the Minister is of the view that the actions of a member of the board may be bringing the board into disrepute, surely they should have an obligation rather than an option to act.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make a point to the Chair. Given the wider interest in the reform process, the two reports of the Office of the Planning Regulator, OPR, etc., it would be good for the committee to have a dedicated meeting on the more general range of issues with the Department, the OPR and others when we can fit it in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the guests for their presentations. I thank them in particular for the written submissions because I know they are all very busy. The submissions are genuinely very helpful to us. We read them and they form our understanding of the Bill. I acknowledge the written submissions received from An Taisce, the Office of the Planning Regulator, Wind Energy Ireland and the Marine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely. Ms Uí Bhroin raised it in her submission also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come in on a point of information so there is no confusion. My suggestion was not that you would have the nominating panels nominating names into a committee appointed by the Minister. My question was more to do with the idea that if there is going to be a committee, would it not be better that the legislation would stipulate the organisations that would have the right to nominate a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, absolutely.

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that Fine Gael supported by Fianna Fáil or vice versa have held the Ministerial portfolio for Housing since 2016; notes that: — the Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Party coalition Government has been in office for two and a half years; — during this time the Government's housing policies have failed, and the...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true.

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: For a decade.

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true.

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not true.

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is pushing up house prices.