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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The other issue is around the representing of the voice of the consumer or the user. Of course, they do not have a voice or a single voice as there are a variety of different views out there. For me, the real value of the forum is if it becomes a facilitator for all those different voices to get access to the information they need and have that voice, which is something the Public Water...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the delegates for their presentations. A number of them have been prominent in keeping the issue of vacant properties and sites in the public arena and I urge them to continue to do so because it will add to the pressure many members are trying to put on the Government to have this issue resolved. All of us are greatly frustrated that thus far, of the five pillars of Rebuilding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is directly related to the issue of vacant sites. I appreciate the Chairman's desire to defend Government policy, but the meeting is to hear-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: You are defending it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I acknowledge the work the Housing Agency has been doing in highlighting this, both from the report last year and ongoing work. I also wish to make a point on local authorities because there are occasions when some people, in particular when they get into the Oireachtas, forget where they have come from and have a tendency to treat local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of 221 properties from that mix that have been deemed unsuitable, obviously a portion of them have been deemed to be unsuitable because they are in areas with an overconcentration of social housing. The rapid-build homes that local authorities are approving are all in areas with a high concentration of social housing and the same applies to the new builds. Are different criteria being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a risk of losing the property because of the time lag through the recycling and the sale-on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a very quick question and I am sorry to pester Mr. O'Connor but it refers back to the banks. In Deputy Michael Noonan's reply to the parliamentary question - I have it to hand - he referred to Permanent TSB and stated that it had 466 units it had repossessed in stock and that 422 were vacant. Mr. O'Connor has stated the units he is looking at primarily involve AIB and Bank of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I repeat to Mr. O'Connor on record - I am looking at the reply to the parliamentary question - the Minister states that Permanent TSB has told the Department there were 422 units as of last November vacant and available, so-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (2 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the report from the expert panel established to investigate problems that have emerged with concrete block work in counties Donegal and Mayo will be published; and if he will ensure that the full report and recommendations as submitted to him will be published. [5031/17]

Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the programme for Government, there is a commitment to strengthen the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP, as well as to reactivate increased funding to rapid area projects throughout local authorities. My constituency, like many others, has seen projects funded through these streams - Traveller projects, youth projects, addiction projects and women's projects -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Data (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the Dublin Mid-West constituency in 2015 and 2016. [5628/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Data (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding which was allocated to the Dublin Mid-West constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form. [5629/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Data (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here. [5630/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the persons and the groups on the departmental working group considering the regulatory approach in relation to online letting platforms such as a company (details supplied); the number of times this working group has met or plans to meet; and if the working group will be meeting with and taking submissions from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the rationale for excluding approved housing body, AHB, rent reviews from the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, adjudication process; and if he will reconsider this exclusion and bring forward appropriate legislation that would allow AHB tenants that feel the outcome of their event review is not fair...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. Irish Water's capital investment programme as outlined in the business plan year-on-year includes revenue funding but the majority is borrowed from private sources or the Irish Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF. If Government was to move to option three for cost reasons, as has been outlined, I presume that the balance between the smaller portion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no additional fiscal impact for Government from shifting that borrowing from private or ISIF to Government borrowing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The interest that is being charged is still being charged to Irish Water and while it is a lower level of interest, it still has to work out where that comes from within its existing business model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We know the parameters within which borrowed funding for Irish Water has operated and I am very clear on the cost of the short-term borrowing as the €20 million figure that is in the report, but what is the projected cumulative cost of the borrowing from 2014 to 2017? According to Irish Water there is additional borrowing from 2018 to 2021 and I would like to know what the...