Results 601-620 of 15,170 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The contracts have been signed.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The LDA has published the information.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would love the Minister to answer the question. I invite him to do so.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin's alternative housing plan, A Home of Your Own, sets out what would be the most ambitious public housing programme in the history of the State. We would deliver more than twice the number of social homes that have been delivered in the past five years by this Government and about ten times as many affordable homes. The big difference is that those homes would be genuinely...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am just waiting for the clock, unless the Ceann Comhairle wants to give me ten minutes to ask the question.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason an open market valuation is being used to establish the price of homes under the Government’s affordable purchase scheme rather than all-in development costs. [43227/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can the Minister explain why he is charging people purchasing homes under his so-called affordable purchase scheme more than the actual cost of delivering those homes? As he knows, he uses open market value rather than full or all-in development costs. This means that if people want to own their homes outright, they do not just have to pay the full cost that the local authority or Land...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course the Minister failed to answer the question. It could be that he does not understand the details of his scheme or it could be he does not want people to know how it works. Let me remind him. For one of the three-bed terraced units in Shanganagh Castle - a scheme he launched so enthusiastically very recently - the full cost if the purchaser wants to own the home outright is...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. That is absolutely not correct.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have no proposal to abolish tenant purchase. The Minister is misleading the House.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House again.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is because I do not do it, Minister, unlike you.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will deliver affordable homes at prices people can actually afford. What is dangerous about that?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Half a million euro for a so-called affordable home.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: How is bringing down new house prices dangerous? In what world?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is failing.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: A plan that is failing. The facts speak for themselves.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to answer all of those questions if the Minister stays until the end of the debate for the first time in five years.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to answer if the Minister stays until the end for once. Take your job seriously.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Stay until the end and listen to everybody, Minister, for the first time in five years.