Results 15,021-15,040 of 15,182 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the further supports that are available to individuals in receipt of the State pension and a half rate carer's allowance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25418/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options under the school meals scheme for children with diagnosed medical conditions relying on strict dietary routines; if such children were considered in the design and roll out of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25549/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if input from metabolic dieticians will be sought in the review of the nutritional values of the school meals scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25550/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the updated regulations arising for sections 18 and 19 of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; to provide a copy of the draft regulations; and to provide a timeline for when they will be introduced. [25933/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Functions (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the functions being transferred from his Department to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and when these functions will be transferred. [25930/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 884. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic surgeons currently working at Tallaght University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 885. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting orthopaedic surgery in each hospital, in tabular form; and the measures planned to alleviate waiting lists for surgery under this speciality. [25951/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a poisoned chalice. Deputy Hearne has dodged a bullet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: There will be two members chairing the session and there are only two of us here. Everybody else has gone home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and I thank Mr. Taaffe and Ms Leech for their presence. Given the importance of social and affordable housing, it is fitting that our first public session is dealing with it. I acknowledge the significant volume of work the witnesses and their teams do, particularly council staff on the front line of tackling the housing and homelessness crisis and working with families in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support that but another way of doing it is more design and build. Currently when the Department reports to us, it lumps in turnkeys with design and builds. Is there an argument for separating those two out so that where a builder comes to a local authority or AHB with the intention of doing a solely social or social and affordable project, it is categorised as design and build...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: My point is a different one. Turnkey is typically something that started life as a private development. When it got planning permission, it was conceived as a private development. Design and build, while it might originate with a builder-developer, starts life as a conversation between that builder-developer and an AHB or local authority. Should we differentiate between those? They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is only a minute left. What about staffing numbers and single-stage approval?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that just for social? What about the affordable delivery?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the single-stage approval process exist?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, it is still two separate processes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The CCMA made a strong case, and rightly so, for a single point of decision-making rather than a single point for application. Would it not be simpler if there was a single senior team to deal with those schemes rather than a person, who is probably a junior PO, having to refer back to the social housing and affordable housing separately?