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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, Sinn Féin will be supporting this legislation. I thank the officials from his Department for the very detailed briefing they provided to committee members on both the Bill and wider issues around AHB strategy and reform. It is a single-sentence Bill, so there is not an awful lot to discuss in terms of its explicit content. However, given that it is related to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I must apologise as we have Housing Finance Agency legislation at 3.50 p.m. so some of us will have pop out to deal with that in the Chamber and then come back in. To provide some context, the original idea for this session when we agreed it before the summer recess was that in anticipation of the transfer of responsibility for the Property Services Regulatory Authority and the Multi-Unit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The way we structure these committees means that they do not lend themselves to the detail. I only have two and a half minutes so could-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think I am out of time. I will get to Mr. Doran in the next round, if that is okay. My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Doran might give us a brief update on what is happening with the funding drawdown for the interim fire safety scheme. That would be a good start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: So that committee members are clear, it is two years after this scheme opened and Mr. Doran still has not been able to draw down any money, nor have the other pathfinder projects in terms of remediation works.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: No remediation work has taken place as of yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Doran have an estimated start date for remediation in his own apartment block?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is for urgent or emergency fire safety works.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the benefit of the committee, could Mr. Doran tell us the number of apartments in his development?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think I am out of time. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise. We have the Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025 before the Dáil, so we are trying to be in two places at once. At the beginning of the meeting, I recommended that the committee would write to the Minister for justice to do exactly as Deputy McAuliffe said to expedite the enabling legislation. It needs be done as a matter of urgency. For fear of asking questions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Legislation states that they do not. The legislation is very explicit. This is why it was a surprise to me. The legislation explicitly states that if somebody wants to block a budget at an owners' management company AGM, they need more than 75% of the votes. What has been happening is good OMCs ask for a majority. They go to the meeting say they are presenting a budget. We had two cases...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that just an individual decision of Mr. Doran's OMC that it has allowed that to happen?

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I listened to the Minister for housing earlier and if ever there was an example of a Minister out of touch with the lived realities of homeowners and tenants impacted by defective concrete blocks and building materials, that was it. My God, he clearly has no understanding of the reality that people who represent these counties are articulating today. Given that it has been 15 long years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: And then come back to some of the detail. I do want to get it on the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important to understand that we are not just talking about apartments. This is another change that has happened. While for some of the historical Celtic tiger developments a multi-unit development meant apartments, there are some, such as Hunterswood, where there are houses. Increasingly, the way in which multi-unit developments are being planned in our urban centres means everybody...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: All duplexes are tied in. This also relates to defects. There are a small number of multi-unit developments with defects, where some of the defects may well be in the rows of houses. It is important when we get to that legislation that we do not, in all instances, exclude houses where there is a demonstrable case that there are, for example, some issues within rows of houses. There is a...