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Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: When I read the Minister's amendment to the motion I thought he was simply not going to make things better. Little did I know that when he read the text of his speech he would make things immeasurably worse. The mood with which the retained firefighters present in the Gallery walked out just as the Minister was finishing his remarks speaks volumes. There is a fundamental flaw at the...

Retained Fire Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: expresses its admiration and appreciation to the Retained Firefighters who keep our communities safe across the country at huge personal sacrifice to themselves; recognises: — that Retained Firefighters are restricted from travelling outside a radius of as low as 2.5 kilometres of their station without first obtaining permission, which has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everyone for the presentations. The opening statements deal with a wider range of issues than was the intention of the committee. They are all important issues but I want to focus specifically on the interaction between the utilities and developers in new residential construction, both in terms of the demand-led approach that Mr. O'Connell spoke about and then also the future...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a round robin. It is really to invite people to contribute and we might have a second round for those who we miss.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To go back to why we take witnesses from their day jobs and bring them in here to answer our questions, we are keen to try to explore ways to improve things. I acknowledge there is a lot of very positive information in what today's witnesses have shared with us, as well as some of the challenges, but this committee is useful only if we take these opportunities to inform ourselves. We try to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question was not about that debate. That is an argument we will have on another day. It was more that it is interesting that there is a very significant difference in the number of water connections and ESB connections in a given year. It would be interesting for us to know if there is a reason for that difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The train station for Clonburris that was built 15 years ago would fit into that category, strictly speaking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise in advance because I must attend the Dáil Chamber for a debate shortly. I am delighted that reference was made to the Housing Infrastructure Services Company, HISCo because they do not get talked about enough. When the full final analysis is done of local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF and the Housing Infrastructure Services Company, HISCo, it would be very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is such a mechanism in the general scheme of the land value sharing and urban development zones Bill where there would be an option for the local authority to compulsorily purchase the land at a discount, which is minus the land value sharing component, where the land is not being developed. That is specifically in the context of UDZs and not dissimilar to the Irish Planning Institute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would just add to that and, without overlabouring it, I will use the SDZs an example. Sometimes that key infrastructure is not infrastructure that benefits one landowner or another, but is the main arterial infrastructure that goes through a very large strategic site, which then frees up others. Then it is a matter for those individual developers to take the action. The urban...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 26 November 2009, to detail where in the Government books is the €176 million special dividend from the ESB from 2009, accounted for as received and allocated. [27423/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to publish any Shareholder Expectations Frameworks and any formal dividend policies for the ESB that were in place for the period from July 2009 to September 2010. [27421/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to submit an updated National Energy and Climate Plan before the 30 June deadline. [27424/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of rental properties that were retrofitted under each SEAI scheme, in tabular form. [27425/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the government's position on the 19 June EU Energy Council agenda items. [27426/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the capital and current allocation for each retrofit scheme, in tabular form. [27427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the pay grades hired in his Department division energy security emergency management; and the costs of each. [27457/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the average cost of a retrofit under each SEAI retrofitting scheme. [27720/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reviews (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 341. To ask the Minister for Finance if the comprehensive review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme, committed to by his predecessor and agreed to be undertaken with a wider review under the National Disability Inclusion Strategy, has commenced; if so, when the review will be complete; if not, when it is due to commence; and when findings of the review of the DDS scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 342. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update regarding access to primary medical certificates for applicants; when the DDMBA is due to resume hearings; the action being taken by his Department to ensure the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme is available and functioning correctly for those who are entitled to the benefits of it; and when he envisages that the...