Results 11,201-11,220 of 15,092 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the constitutional referenda on the right to housing and public ownership of water. [6821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the low number of applications to the revised defective concrete block remediation scheme and the slow rate of processing existing applications that have transferred to the new scheme. [6824/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group report on Traveller accommodation. [6823/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortality Rates (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s response to the recent Health Research Board’s report into mortality among single homeless people. [6822/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; the number of appeals awaiting assessment; if an indication of a timeframe to clear the backlog of appeals is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the provision of a fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme to replace the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7261/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For future days, unless we have these subgroupings-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am still not convinced this will be a functional way of doing this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the greatest respect, it is not for the Minister of State to be open to.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have the floor.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have the floor. My point is that I do not think this will be effective but we will give it a try and we will see. I remind the Minister of State that it is the committee, under the guidance of the Chair, who decide how we proceed. We want to facilitate to the Minister of State and his officials as much as possible. The problem is that the Minister of State just does not understand the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the one hand, the entire purpose of this Bill is to do away with amendment after amendment to our planning and development law. We are meant to get a single consolidated item of legislation that planning professionals can work with. Yet, here is another example where we are being told it actually will not be in this Bill but will be in subsequent regulations or might even be in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have the floor, with he greatest respect to the Minister of State. The idea that section 46(2)(b) is balanced and addresses the concerns-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----shows how out of touch with reality the Minister of State is. He should talk to people who live in rural Gaeltachtaí and ask them whether that provision, which already exists in the existing planning development legislation, is not new and provides no new powers or functions to local authorities or planning authorities, is adequate to ensure that our planning system takes decisions...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given that the schedule for the publication of the Bill was greatly delayed - this is no criticism of any officials because it is not the officials' fault - I suspect that if we get a copy of the enactment schedule, I will be reminding the Minister of State, if he is still in government in a year or two years' time, of the delays in meeting that. Nevertheless, given that there is going to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have amendments to this section in this cluster that the Minister of State has not spoken to.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: National policy objective No. 29 in the national planning framework is to, "Support the implementation of language plans in Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas, Gaeltacht Service Towns and Irish Language Networks." That is a statutory obligation on our planning system and our local authorities. The problem is that nowhere in this Bill is it set out how this should be done. It is remarkable...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for interrupting but I want to make an important point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does not answer the question I asked.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but it does not address the question I asked: in those areas, does the desire to use the language on a day-to-day basis constitute social need? In my development plan, for example - other Deputies will know this - when you apply for a new house in a countryside area, you have to demonstrate an economic need to actually live in that physical area or a social need. Economic need is much...