Results 6,601-6,620 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Gould might be back. He may squeeze in just a few final questions for the Minister.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: We could reasonably finish at 3.30 p.m., which will be two hours. That is reasonable enough.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I am looking for a few quick-fire updates on some other matters. The quicker the Minister can give me responses, the quicker I will get through the updates, if he does not mind. The regulations for the enhanced defective blocks scheme were meant to be completed by the end of this year and the new scheme was meant to be open for applications next year. Does he expect that timeline will...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a chance they will slip?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: Some of those homes, and the Minister and I have been in some of them, are still stuck at stage 1 -----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: -----because the central issue is pyrrhotite rather than mica. I will ask a follow-up question on emergency accommodation. Those families need emergency accommodation but half the applications are still stuck in phase 1, some for almost two years. The quicker we can get that pyrrhotite issue resolved and get them onto stage 2, the better.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that. I do not want to cut across the Minister but while we are waiting for the review of IS 465, there is an independent-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: There is an interim measure whereby there could be some flexibility in the operation of the current statutory instrument to allow those homes the Minister has been in, which are very clearly not fit for habitation, to be progressed in advance of the review of IS 465. Is that something the Minister is considering?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: Is there any provision for emergency accommodation?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate the response. All I ask is that the sooner the Minister is in a position to clarify any of those matters regarding when the regulations will be done, when the scheme will be open, and when there will be emergency accommodation, the better. I have two other very quick questions because we are conscious of the Minister's time rather than ours. We could stay here all day. In...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I am only interrupting because I am pressed for time. I am not being adversarial. Regarding emergency funding for urgent works, is anything being considered?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I know, and I am not being adversarial, but I need to press the Minister. Is he considering potential emergency or interim measures? It is a reasonable question.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: When does the Minister expect a decision on those?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: When does the Minister expect a decision?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I will work with the Minister on it. I am not being adversarial. I asked a reasonable question. When does the Minister hope to make a decision on those emergency or interim measures?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I look forward to that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: When will a decision be made on them?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I am not disputing any of that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: I am not dismissing it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister have an expected date by which a decision will be made? It is a fair question.