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Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes that:— the social and affordable housing crisis has now reached the level of an emergency; — growing numbers of people do not have access to affordable, secure and safe homes; — 8,000 people, including 3,000 children, are being forced to live in emergency accommodation; — 90,000 households are on council waiting lists,...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I listened very carefully to the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, and to the Minister of State, Deputy English. I am genuinely surprised that the Minister said the Government's plan does not overly rely on the private sector. According to the social housing plan in Rebuilding Ireland, 130,000 families were to have their social housing needs met. Of those, 93,000 were to have them met...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Cowen seems to have forgotten some of the more heated sessions at the water charges committee, to which I will return to refresh his memory and point to the difference between what he claims to have got at the end of the process and what is included in this legislation. The Bill before us is the latest in the long and sorry saga of Fianna Fáil's and Fine Gael's water charge...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----because the average household charge will be based on the dwelling.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come to that in a second, but that was not the argument Deputy Cowen made during the committee. He wanted the basic threshold to be on average usage per person, not per household. Fine Gael has clearly won that and I believe Deputy Cowen has some explaining to do, particularly to his own colleagues who he marched up to the hill on two or three occasions during the committee-----

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and back down again over this very issue.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: He was, when he could not get what he wanted from Fine Gael, although now he is conceding to its central point at the start of that row. With regard to an allowance for households of five or more, where does that leave the four-person household, which is particularly disadvantaged under this proposal? It also creates perverse incentives for the one-person household which, if I read the...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We could have a Dáil tap-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated to and drawn down by all local authorities for the caravan loan scheme in each of the years 2012 to 2016, and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [40821/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41056/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41057/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of SCHEP tenancies in which properties are owned by private landlords; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41058/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four straightforward questions. The last time we met I raised the need for independent inspections of emergency accommodation. Since then the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, DRHE, has completed its work on the national quality standard framework and have presented that work to the Department along with a proposal for the establishment of a national equality standards office which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am talking about the two reports on the cost of construction; one which was done in-house by the Department, and the other which is looking at international comparisons, as I understand it, by the housing agency.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the right project this time.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last November the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016 was passed in the Dáil without dissent and in May considered by the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government at pre-legislative scrutiny stage. We have since been unable to progress it because the Minister responsible has not brought forward the...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Delaying of the work of the committee-----

Topical Issue Debate: Referendum in Catalonia (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was in Barcelona and Catalonia over the weekend as a guest of the Catalan Government and was accredited by its electoral commission, participating in a delegation of approximately 40 members of European countries' parliaments observing the election. I witnessed first-hand many disturbing scenes that we saw on the news over the weekend and spoke to many people who had been hit with plastic...

Topical Issue Debate: Referendum in Catalonia (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State's response was disappointing. He used the phrase "all relevant players ... move ... from confrontation." There has been no confrontation by the Catalan Government or people. If one watches all of the media coverage, what one will see is people trying to assert their rights peacefully and in a dignified way. Confrontation is certainly not how I would describe it as....