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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the available supports related to school transport for students who cannot obtain a school place in their locality during the school year and must continue to travel to schools a distance away from their home. [60191/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that secondary schools in Clondalkin, Dublin 22 are already operating waiting lists for the 2023-2024 school year, that numbers on these lists are significant; if her Department intends to provide increased resources in order for secondary schools in the area to increase their intake; and if there...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a shortfall of approximately 90 school places between the number of 6th class school places and 1st year school places across schools in the Clondalkin area. [60662/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their interesting answers to our questions. I will revert to some of the data. This may be a question for Ms Gallagher specifically. I would be interested in her thoughts on the estimated figures for last year. There is not a straight correlation between previous and estimated registrations. Therefore, the headline figure just looks like a reduction of 43,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I might ask a question so that I get this right. I am looking at the 2016-21 period, or the high point to the low point. Does the dramatic drop from 2020 to 2021 reflect that there were landlords whose tenancies were not continuing but who had been captured in the estimation process anyway? If so, there was not an accelerated drop from 2020 to 2021. From 2016 to 2021, though, the figure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If there is a reduction year on year, that will still be a net reduction even though new properties will have been coming in, but the types of new properties coming in can often be very different. Many of the properties that are exiting are at the middle or lower end of the market, particularly properties from the Celtic tiger period such as those Mr. Dunne mentioned, while many of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was just being optimistic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: When does the board hope to have the data for quarter 3? Will it be next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concluding point is directed at Mr. Byrne. He pointed out, as did Mr. Dunne, the dramatic changes that have been made to the legislative and policy framework. This is not a criticism of the RTB, but many of those changes have been made without adequate data, so getting to that point Ms Gallagher mentioned is crucial. Within the prioritisation of the work the RTB does and taking account...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Most of the committee fully understands the value of the RTB. Many of us are vocal advocates of it. We are unique in having a non-judicial body for mediation and dispute resolution. That is a very good thing. I think the RTB often gets wrongly criticised for inadequacies in the legislation or the resourcing. These are not ultimately matters in the RTBs control. I will make a couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so we are clear, will Ms Gallagher explain why that change is there? What was not captured previously that will be captured from quarter 3?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Ms Gallagher knows, we are the people who often put a lot of those data in the public domain, which is why we ask for it. It would be useful if the committee got a note from the RTB in advance. Obviously, we will still be able to read the data across the quarter. If we are looking at vacant possession notices to quit, for example, the RTB will be able to compare that and say if the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will respond to that. One of the interesting things that has happened recently is that an increasingly collaborative approach has been encouraged by the Department. We have the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, housing section working with the Housing Agency, etc. I think there is a role for resourcing bodies with expertise to work together collaboratively. Some of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a strong view that the more independent the research is, the better. For example, we have seen that once home completion data were given to the CSO, all the politics was taken out of the matter, and now we have a really robust data set. Annual registration will do the same for the rental sector, and the RTB will develop a specialism in interpreting that data, which a generalist in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Byrne knows what that is.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, I had a phone conversation with an incredibly distraught family in County Kildare. Their son Wayne is sleeping tonight in a tent in County Meath. Wayne suffers from very extreme mental health challenges in his life and he has been homeless for about two years. Since I and my colleague Deputy O'Rourke have been working with this family, we have found that there is simply no...

Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday on the floor of the Dáil, I made reference to a media report on the death of a young woman sleeping rough in my constituency. Subsequently, the organisation that put the information in the public domain has withdrawn it, pending further investigation. As the Minister knows, the issue of the deaths of people experiencing homelessness is one I have been raising with him on a...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want record my extreme disappointment at what is essentially the cutting short of pre-legislative scrutiny of this significant legislation following the Minister’s decision to introduce the Bill in the Seanad. I do not accept that the emergency amendments which the Minister wants to bring forward had be done in this way. They could have been attached to another Bill and I will...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I again put on record our party's strong opposition to these sections of the Bill, dealing with changes to An Bord Pleanála. One of the most significant proposals the Minister brought forward this week is not actually an emergency measure at all. I fully accept there is urgency regarding an interim chair. I would not have proposed the interim chair in the manner that the Minister has,...