Results 15,061-15,080 of 15,182 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (22 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance when a new scheme for disabled drivers and passengers will be available, given it is almost five years on from the Supreme Court judgement of June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (22 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance the schemes or financial assistance available to people with disabilities to assist with the cost of vehicles or adaptations to vehicles in the absence of a fit-for-purpose scheme for disabled drivers and disabled passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26521/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (22 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial assistance is available for vehicle adaptation for a person (details supplied) in the event that there is no other funding source available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26520/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (22 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his Department's plans to purchase a facility (details supplied) for IPAS accommodation; the number of residents currently accommodated by IPAS at this complex; the number that may be accommodated when the complex is purchased; and plans to engage with the local community about future plans for this facility. [26537/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (22 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 333. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the use by Tusla of a residential property at a location (details supplied) to accommodate minors; and to detail what engagement with residents took place prior to this facility opening. [26536/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Drs. Kelly and O'Toole and their teams. It is great to have them here. I thank them for their presentations. I commend Dr. Kelly on his diplomatic use of language, which concerned frontloading the benefit from development levy and water connection waivers as opposed to people submitting commencement notices for things that were not actually commencing. I congratulate him on not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: When Dr. Kelly talks about the State bank, does he mean Home Building Finance Ireland or another vehicle?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the risk of putting words into Dr. Kelly's mouth, he is saying that, rather than increasing the level of debt related to development finance from a pillar bank, a better solution concerns the equity rather than increasing the bank lending beyond what is typically 60%. Would he be nervous about raising the bank lending proportion to a typical proportion of 80%? I am aware that HBFI does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, since I am pressed for time and wish to proceed to the ESRI, Dr. Cassidy should answer very briefly on whether there should be mortgages of 100%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. I have two questions for Dr. O'Toole. He should respond very briefly because we have only two minutes. To go back to the issue of rent pressure zones, let us be very blunt. The three options are to raise the cap for the existing zones, allow a reset to new market rents between tenancies and fully exempt new stock over an extended period. Is it fair to say a trade-off is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The question is specific because there are some suggestions from the Government that some of the changes could be made without rents for existing renters going up more than is currently the case. I do not see how that is possible. I am not asking Dr. O'Toole whether making the changes is good or bad but to state, based on an assessment of the facts, whether rents for existing renters would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Likewise, I presume that because tenancies in the private rental sector are typically of short to medium duration, allowing a resetting between tenancies presents two challenges, one being that it might perversely incentivise poor practice involving landlords moving tenants out, as stated in Dr. O'Toole's own report. It would also surely have a wash-through effect among new renters generally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: If there is no cap in respect of the turnover, it pushes the rents even higher, all things being equal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be quick. I have one quick comment and then a quick question. To throw a different perspective into the debate about apartments, the assumption is that apartments have to be private rental sector. The difficulty of course is that a third of the people who live in the private rental sector should be in social housing. That is what they want, and we are paying a huge amount of money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do my best, Chair.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline plans for maintaining emissions in the event of lower electricity imports arising from linking the British and European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms. [27541/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline plans for maintaining emissions in the event of lower electricity imports arising from linking the British and European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms. [27541/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of an issue relating to the driving test cancellation list where people who have had several provisional licenses cannot access the cancellation portal online (details supplied); if an investigation into the issue is complete; and if a timeframe is available as to when the issue will be resolved. [27603/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (27 May 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 490. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if IPAS has entered into a contract with a hotel (details supplied); and if so, to set out the details of the contract and his Department’s plans to engage with the local community on these plans. [27715/25]