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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shame on you.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Blame for homelessness is much more significant. I am expressing the anger of the people the Minister is failing.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologised to you, Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the growing concerns among impacted homeowners with the defective concrete block grant scheme. [15882/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not. That is rubbish.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is going backwards.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing. [15610/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I commend the Government side, particularly the diligent backbenchers, on making an incredibly unsuccessful scheme sound successful. Three grants being drawn down in Longford in a year and a half is not, by any normal definition, a success. There were only 100 across the State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This scheme is good in principle but an absolute failure in practice. If the Minister wants to sell three drawdowns in a year and a half to his constituents as a success, far be it for me to get in his way. The Minister has had the report of the Housing Commission on the right to housing for almost a year. When will he publish it? More importantly, when will he act on it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It seems to me that the Minister has left out a few crucial details. The first, of course, is that a memo was due to go to Cabinet on this matter last autumn. The Minister thought he was able to proceed to refer the report to the Oireachtas committee for its consideration. That was blocked by his Government partners and now the thing sits in abeyance. I obviously have not seen the report,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is interesting the Minister did not refute or contradict my suggestion that there was an intention to bring a memo to Cabinet last autumn but there was a-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----disagreement between Government parties. If I am incorrect, I would like the Minister to put that clearly on the record. The problem is that this is another of those occasions where he makes it seem like he is doing something but where it appears that nothing is actually going to happen. I suspect what will happen is that eventually a memo will go to Cabinet, with both the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: God loves a trier.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: A roaring success. Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 674: In page 222, to delete lines 37 to 40, and in page 223, to delete lines 1 to 11 and substitute the following: "(b) in the case of a decision of a planning authority that relates to a development in respect of which a screening determination for an appropriate assessment or an environmental impact assessment was required under Part 6, or an appropriate assessment...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am. Section 99(2)(b)(v) refers to "a resolution" but does not state of what kind or how many members of the organisation have to be present. Is it just a resolution generally or is there going to be something more specific by way regulation or otherwise?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Like the Minister, the concern we have is to ensure that organisations or campaign groups that have a genuine and sincere interest in environmental matters are facilitated. We look forward to his amendments to deal with those who are hiding under the banner of alleged environmental NGOs when they are not that. Exactly as the Minister said, they seek to extort money by way of delaying, which...