Results 441-460 of 15,170 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list all approved housing body social and cost rental development proposals that are currently with his Department waiting initial approval, with a breakdown by local authority, number of units and length of time a decision has been pending. [5993/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff sanction requests for housing staff currently awaiting decision with his Department, with a breakdown by local authority. [5995/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Department’s position regarding children with specific medical needs who may require emergency intervention from school staff while attending school; if schools can refuse to assist students in the required way in the case of a life threatening emergency (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5391/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (13 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of applications for family re-unification that were made under section 56 of the International Protection Act 2015 in 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of successful and unsuccessful applications, respectively. [5432/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (13 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in accommodation provided by the International Protection and Accommodation Service who have refugee status, subsidiary protection or permission to remain; and to provide a breakdown of their location, by county. [5431/25]

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this comprehensive motion and giving us an opportunity to discuss what is undoubtedly the most important issue facing our constituents today. We are fully supporting the motion. We have some differences of opinion on policy, particularly with respect to the future focus of the Land Development Agency, but we fully support and endorse the spirit of this...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (12 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the State has entered into arbitration with a company (details supplied) or any other companies under the dispute resolution mechanism within the Energy Charter Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5082/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is living in cloud-cuckoo-land. For the past number of weeks, there has been intensive lobbying on behalf of Irish Institutional Property, Property Industry Ireland and the Irish Property Owners Association all claiming, wrongly, in my view, that RPZs - as inadequate a protection as they are, they still provide form of protection - are the reason Government did not meet its...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government could scrap RPZs tomorrow and allow landlords to reset rents between tenancies and market rent, but not a single new home would be built. How do we know? We know because that was the case a number of years ago. Institutional investors were investing in the market when RPZs were first introduced. It is ECB interest rate rises that have caused the problem. Given that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister please confirm that the Government will not do anything that will increase the pressure on hard-pressed renters?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister to be clear to renters, not to me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has never been more difficult to be a renter. Rents are through the roof, and last year almost 20,000 eviction notices were issued to tenants. The single biggest cause of homelessness, as I am sure the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform knows, is evictions from the private rental sector. According to the Residential Tenancies Board, the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a progress update on the development of the social climate plan. [4562/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the rental accommodation scheme will be published. [4558/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the recent Housing Commission report and to outline if a working group will be established to facilitate the implementation of the report. [4559/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Estimates Publication (11 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for the Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services table for the capital assistance scheme and the capital advance leasing facility for 2025. [4560/25]

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I join with other colleagues in thanking Tony and wishing him the very best in the future. I cannot think of any better job to prepare you for being a grandparent than being an usher in Leinster House and herding the bag of cats that is often the TDs in this place. We wish him all the very best. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear. Well said.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Taoiseach knows, the tenant in situ scheme is a vital homelessness prevention tool. It allows local authorities and approved housing bodies to purchase private rental properties where an eviction notice is in place and to turn the tenants into social or affordable renters. Correspondence I received from the Department in January confirmed that no new applications are allowed to...