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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to listen.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support that. I said that I support it.

Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The three schemes to which the Minister of State referred are good. While he often complains that I give him a hard time, I have publicly stated these schemes are worth supporting. The problem is that over the six years of the schemes, the Department's target is to deliver 6,600 houses, which amounts to 3% of the vacant housing stock to which Deputy Casey referred. I urge the Minister to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he will undertake to strengthen SICAP, social inclusion and community activation programme, in view of the fact there is a commitment in the programme for a partnership Government to strengthen SICAP and increase RAPID funding; and if he will commit to a review of the flawed tendering process that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that his Department’s three schemes aimed at bringing vacant homes back into use only targets 3% of the total vacant housing stock and in view of the fact that his Department is currently developing a strategy to target these units if this strategy will contain a commitment to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will respond to this Deputy's submission to his office and his senior departmental officials on the proposed social housing public private partnership for Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, Wicklow and Kildare County Council. [17087/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the application of the RPZ 4% rent limit to RAS, HAP and SCHEP leases runs the risk of landlords withdrawing from the leases and putting the current tenants at risk of homelessness. [17085/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 432 of 21 March 2017 (details supplied) and in view of the fact that the European Commission is launching ECJ court action against the Government for breaches of this directive, his plans in addition to what is already contained in the Irish Water capital investment programme to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (11 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of engineers employed in the roads department of Galway County Council; if they are allocated by geographic area or by project; and if they have the resources necessary to deliver their current work plan. [17989/17]

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Three years ago the Right2Water movement hit the streets. It was a mass movement of communities, trade unions and political parties. It was a reaction to the austerity assault of Fine Gael and the Labour Party. It was about much more than water, but at its heart it was always about water. Just like housing and health, decades of under-investment left people with a crumbling public...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The subtext of the letter which was clearly a threat to his colleagues in Fianna Fáil was that he must get his way at the committee or he would force a general election. He said: "Give me my meters and give me my excess charge or we will go to the polls." What happened then was that, as he has just done here, Deputy Barry Cowen huffed and puffed and threatened to block the Minister's...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is interesting to note the wide divergence between the Minister and Deputy Barry Cowen on that particular point. It will be an interesting battle when we come to the legislation to see how those two are going to square that circle. I must say that this week I almost felt sorry for Deputy Barry Cowen. It must be hard when one's party, fearing a general election, throws one to the wolves....

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In fact, they almost sound like the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, on this issue. The decisions, however, on charges and meters have nothing to do with EU law. The Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services received nine separate pieces of legal opinion from six different legal sources, each of which gave conflicting legal advice. One senior counsel on mature...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear, Deputy Joan Collins is not misleading the Dáil. The senior counsel said at the committee that he had received correspondence from Fine Gael.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not what he said.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make a general opening comment that has nothing to do with what the Minister just outlined. I am very disappointed by the turnout today, and that is obviously no criticism of the members who have turned up. This committee has a consistent problem of very low attendances, which reflects very poorly on the very serious issues with which we are dealing, and today is a matter in point....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept all that, but this is not a one-off. We repeatedly have very small attendances at committee sessions dealing with very important issues and events. We all have other commitments. I spent ten hours in the water committee meeting yesterday and seven hours the week before and was still able to attend to my housing committee commitments. I think anyone from the public looking in on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 6:In page 7, line 34, after “assess” to insert “and make legally binding determinations on”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I acknowledge the Minister's openness to considering changes. As I stated on Second Stage, we support the establishment of the planning regulator. It is a very important addition to our planning architecture and was strongly recommended by the tribunal. However, it is really important that we have a body that is not just consultative and that does not just evaluate and assess while the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the detailed responses. Every time we go through legislation or policy, we start the conversation with the Minister telling us that he will be open to persuasion and end the process with broadly the same legislation or policy with which we started.