Results 5,601-5,620 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: In two-and-a-half years house prices have increased by 20%. Home ownership is now more difficult than at any other time in decades. Rents in the private rental sector have increased by a staggering 23%. That means that renting is more expensive than ever before. The Taoiseach, for the second day in a row, has claimed there were 50,000 new tenancies registered with the Residential...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Government targets are too low, they are not being met and the consequence is that social housing need is rising. In fact, trying to outdo the Taoiseach for misrepresentation of the facts, the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, told us last week that social housing need had miraculously shrunk by 36% in a decade. What he actually means is they have moved people from social housing waiting lists...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the 30,000 homes, independent experts are telling the Government that we need at least 50,000 so even hitting 30,000, if that is the true figure, comes nowhere close to what is required. Interestingly, there is no more talk of increased commencements because we only learned this week that they are now 20% down on last year. There is no more talk about increased planning...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: When you look through all of the housing policy initiatives of this Government, what do they all do? Help to buy and shared equity schemes increase house prices. What does the Land Development Agency, LDA, do? Very little, because it was not given the powers actively to manage land. The so-called affordable housing programme is producing homes that are not affordable even under the...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am glad to see the Minister for homelessness finds it so funny.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (29 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: 59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made towards the target of reducing demand for fossil gas by 15% as part of the RePowerEU plan; the reason the reduction in demand for fossil gas in the State was the smallest in the EU, only reducing demand by 0.3% compared with the EU average of 19%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15628/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (29 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage change in demand for gas in all sectors, including electricity generation, residential, and industrial and commercial, broken down by retail, construction, laundry, leisure, air travel, data centres, pharma, hospitals, and any other key sectors, for the year 2022, in tabular form. [15629/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: 145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on IPAS’s plans to use Dolcain House, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 for the provision of temporary accommodation for people seeking international protection in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15673/23]
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is not what she said.
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: She is not even here to defend herself.
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: She explicitly said-----
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am defending people being honest on the floor of the Dáil.
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: Some 2,000 extra emergency beds. Do the Minister's officials know about this?
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is out of time.
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: At the very centre of this legislation is a simple fact: in three days' time, because of the decisions of the Government, very many people, adults and children, will become lose the rental properties in which they have been living. The Government has put in place no credible plan to ensure that they have somewhere safe to go. I listened carefully to the Minister and the Minister of State,...
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is simply not true.
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is in charge and the private rental sector continues to shrink on his watch. Homelessness increases on his watch. He is in charge. This is his responsibility.
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: Because they do not care.
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: This Government staying in power will make things worse.
- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: I just gave an explanation.