Results 6,221-6,240 of 14,943 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The answer we got from the officials is while they might be existing bodies, these might be new functions to existing bodies. All of the existing bodies that already had a licensing and enforcement responsibility would continue to have that as well. I know it is a very naive question but we asked who someone should call if they saw something on the seashore that was not compliant with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What are Professor Crowe's thoughts on head 14(5) and that trade-off? The legislation cannot be overly prescriptive for all of the reasons he outlined. However, the legislation should at least try to set out some framework within which those types of decisions could be made because they could be very big decisions. They could have very significant consequences either for marine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me push it one step further. That transparent scientific exercise then identifies an area that clearly requires a high level of conservation activity, yet somebody somewhere may then say that is all very well, but there are imperative reasons of overriding public interest that require us to disregard that. That is the bit that, legislatively, is going to be quite tricky, especially in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me press Professor Crowe. I am trying to keep within the science. If, for example, a particular part of our marine environment is damaged to such an extent that a species goes extinct or we lose some key feature, that is not an isolated thing in and of itself, and that can then have a knock-on effect and a further knock-on effect. From a scientific point of view, when we talk about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Professor Crowe for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one observation from an exchange we had with the Department last week. If one takes terrestrial planning, and I know it is not the same, we zone certain geographical areas where certain types of activity are permissible. Even where these is one planning enforcement body, which is our local authority, and even when everybody knows there is a single form to fill in to make a formal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is statistically not true. There are 90,000-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is deflecting and distracting from his own failure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government is not meeting its targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Agreed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Planning is not the problem. Lack of Government delivery is the problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Land Development Agency cannot get these lands. It does not have the power to get these lands.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. My understanding is that of the four local authorities which received the draft regulations at the end of last year, the one in Donegal is refusing to give the Minister’s Department a formal comment because it is not allowed to discuss the regulations with its elected members. I welcome the fact the Minister has asked the SCSI to update the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that for defective blocks?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister, I suppose, is right that people can continue to apply but, as we know, there is a very significant number of people, particularly in Donegal, who are not able to get through stage 1. Part of that is because of the restrictions on IS 465. From what our committee was told, it is unlikely completion of the review or changes to the scheme, in respect of the National Standards...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is except for those who are stalled, that is, the 500 who are stalled at stage 1.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is just shy of 500.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the regulations for and the opening of the enhanced defective concrete block redress scheme. [3597/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister to give us an update on the regulations underpinning the enhanced defective block remediation scheme for homeowners in Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Limerick and an estimated date for when this new scheme will be open for homeowners in Donegal and Mayo and also for those in Clare, Limerick and other counties.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental homes delivered through the cost-rental equity loan in 2022; the number of cost-rental homes delivered by the Land Development Agency in 2022; and the number of affordable purchase homes delivered through the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022. [3842/23]