Results 881-900 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance if help-to-buy scheme applicants can claim the rebate retrospectively in the event of the contractor not being registered for the scheme with the Revenue Commissioners at the deposit stage of a home purchase. [7430/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the low level of contractor registration for the help-to-buy scheme, his plans to address this problem; and the reasons a contractor may not register for the scheme. [7431/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to specify the person or body that is responsible for providing and funding readers for children with dyslexia who are undertaking State examinations, such as the leaving or junior certificate examinations or mock examinations; and the procedure for securing this vital support. [6724/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be provided with a reader funded by the relevant authority to facilitate the taking of State examinations in 2017. [6725/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if revenue raised by Irish Water through domestic water charges is used to fund the operational costs of the provision of water services or the rolling capital programme, as detailed in page 23 of Irish Water's business plan; and if some or all of the revenue raised from domestic water charges is allocated to Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 379. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a rescheduled appointment for surgery at St James's Hospital following the cancellation of an appointment on 31 January 2017 due to the ongoing trolley crisis. [6768/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the last meeting with Scottish Water, Deputy Brophy raised the question of Scotland's allegedly high average water charges. The representative from Scottish Water said he did not recognise the figures. When I checked it later, I found the average household charge for domestic water in Scotland is €406 a year and it has one of the lowest average household charges of all northern...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That was short for me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are, however, at the low end in terms of OECD figures.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Services (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 24 January 2017, the annual cost to the Exchequer if the existing subsidy to domestic group and private water users covered the full operating costs of providing water for domestic use; and the number of domestic group and water users who currently benefit from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the reasons Article 9.4 of the water framework directive is so contentious is it has become a central part of the public debate on whether discontinuing domestic water charges is a viable policy option. There have been newspaper articles arguing that if we abolish domestic water charges, we will face immediate and very substantial fines from the European Court of Justice and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, absolutely. It read: "On the basis of the information reported to the Commission, Ireland has not made use of Article 9(4)" in its first river basin management plan, as we know. It went on to state that should Ireland wish to rely on the provisions of Article 9.4 in its second river basin management plan, a justification would need to be provided in that plan, including drafts, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not what the Commission stated in 2014. I ask Mr Ciobanu-Dordea to explain the change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sorry; I want to interject because this is very important and I want to provide clarity on where the inconsistency lies. If the Commission had been applying the principles it has been applying since 2016, the reply in 2014 would have stated Ireland could not invoke Article 9.4 because it had not included it in the 2009 river basin management plan and that, therefore, it no longer had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Commission then shifted its position in 2016 and stated it was not an option and that Ireland would be in breach of the directive if it sought to do so at that stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is more explicit or more political?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: But that practice had changed before the advice was received in 2014. The practice had changed, according to the Commission, in the 2009 river basin management plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The corollary is that the Commission's new position is not neutral. Therefore, it is political.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a feeder question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.