Results 5,961-5,980 of 14,943 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister knows that. I am not calling into question the CSO. I am simply asking the Minister to explain something which he is avoiding explaining.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions on the social and affordable housing output. When we get the final figures for last year, there will be a shortfall, as there was the year before. I have asked departmental officials one of my questions previously but I did not get a clear reply. Now that we have had two years of under reach in social and affordable housing, will the Department increase the target...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not so much that they will be taken out of the build figures. Will the money local authorities use to buy come from the social housing investment programme, which funds the new-build figures, or will it come from another subhead?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Where will the money come from?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It could come through CALF and purchase and acquisition.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the local authority, it would come through the social housing investment programme fund and for the AHB it would come through CALF plus borrowing.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the vacants.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, when I said vacants, I meant to say one-bed and four-bed empty properties.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that. My question is not adversarial but let us assume there is a shortfall of 1,000 in the new builds. Adding that the shortfall from previous years-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will those be added in and the new targets increased for this year and next year, for example?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If something is in the pipeline I accept is not lost but there is-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, is the Minister going to increase the headline target to take account of-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If those targets are missed, will they be increased?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: But the Minister will have missed those targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Twice he asked you.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for introducing this Bill, which we are supporting, and for providing us with the opportunity for this debate. The Government has been in office for over two and a half years and the facts of the Minister's record in housing do not lie. During that period the private rental sector has continued to shrink at a more accelerated pace than under his...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of commercial and non-commercial buildings that have been leased by or loaned to and refurbished by IPAS to provide accommodation for people in the international protection system, that is, IP applications and recipients of TPOs, broken down by county and the number of residents per building; and if...