Results 10,681-10,700 of 15,092 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total annual expenditure on the daily expenses allowance paid to international protection applicants each year since 2020; the expenditure for 2023 to date; the estimated expenditure by year end 2023 and for 2024; and to identify the relevant programme sub-head in the Revised Estimates. [52373/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 464, 465, 467, 468 and 469 of 14 November 2023, the expected total maximum occupancy of the 37 properties referenced once they are fully operational; and by what date they are expected to become operational. [52060/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 464, 465, 467, 468 and 469 of 14 November 2023, what proportion of children in the international protection system will be entitled to the new payment provided for by Budget 2024; and the eligibility criteria for same. [52061/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 500. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 464, 465, 467, 468 and 469 of 14 November 2023, if all of the programme output targets provided in the table were met; if not, by how much they were missed; in the case of 2023, if they are on course to be met; and if not, by how much they are off target. [52062/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 466 of 14 November 2023, the equivalent average cost per night in privately owned accommodation. [52372/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but the Department was working with the legislation. The legislation we got contains a set of provisions that have merit. However, the Commission is arguing that they are too strong. I know Mr. Ryan cannot confirm this but I will say it anyway. Clearly, the Attorney General's advice when we got the amendments was that they were fine, but then the Commission interjected and said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To follow on Senator Fitzpatrick’s point about polling stations, I think I have 17. On a general election day, I get through every one of those at least three times. With seven people, I am not saying you will get the whole country but you will get a good random selection.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If it is representatively selected, one could actually get a very good sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us be very clear. I do not see any set of circumstances where we go back to the days where two or three political parties had the volume of people to do those independent verifications. I would love if that was possible but it is not. I think the point Mr. O’Leary is making is important. With that team of staff, so long as the staff know what they are looking for and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We support that fully. We have some of Europe's leading scholars in this area who spend a very significant amount of time in other jurisdictions relaying to their expertise. Exit studies have a huge value. Mr. O'Leary is absolutely right; any longitudinal study also needs to be able to talk to the people who do not vote. In the testimony we got from the political science community via Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Ryan will tell Mr. O'Leary we are not all bad at the committee; we are very constructive.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide, in tabular form, the number of section 179A social housing planning exemptions that have secured stage 1 approval from his Department, broken down by local authority, and including location and number of units in each scheme; and further, to indicate how many of these schemes have commenced construction. [52731/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (30 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 260. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how much renewable electricity was used here in the years 2019 to 2022 expressed in terra watt hours, in tabular form. [52913/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (30 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the amount of electricity for which relief is claimed from the electricity tax for 2022 for each of the categories for which relief is available, in tabular form. [52961/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (30 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 309. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the basis in EU law for offering relief from the electricity tax based on the fuel mix disclosure, as outlined in Section 63(3)(c) of the Finance Act 2008, as amended. [52962/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (30 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 310. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 23 November 2023, of the 15.6 terawatt hours of renewable electricity for which relief was claimed from electricity tax in 2022, the portion claimed with recourse to the fuel mix disclosure; and the portion claimed by other means. [52963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (30 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 321. To ask the Minister for Finance whether some or all of the electricity tax has been refunded to producers of renewable electricity in line with article 15(2) of the Electricity Tax Directive in any year. [53174/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the proportion?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a percentage of housing stock, it has fallen. The Taoiseach knows that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, "RTÉ Investigates" broadcast a documentary with some very serious revelations about our planning system. It showed two individuals involved in what can only be described as an appalling breach of that system and who may well be subject to future criminal proceedings. Yesterday morning, theditch.ierevealed that one of the individuals at the centre of the documentary was, of...