Results 6,641-6,660 of 14,943 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: It would be helpful if any questions that are not answered can be submitted to the Chair in order that we can get formal responses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Dubsky for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Through the Chair, I imagine if Ms Uí Bhroin contacts them today, they will send it on today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can I just make a small point, please? My apologies as I had to pop out to talk to a group of students from the constituency and I was encouraging them to become planners, engineers and architects. I am very serious because they were asking me questions about climate change, renewable energy, energy security and affordable housing. Our future is secure as far as the community college is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is that not an argument then to say that the planning authority, with its full-time planning adjudicators, should have a board in the same way as the Land Development Agency has its full-time staff, and also has a board which deals with those oversight and governance issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is really helpful.
- Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy would have to get permission from the people of Fermanagh because the water starts there.
- Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “Referendum on the right to water 5.The Minister shall, not later than 2 months after the passing of this Act, lay a report before the Oireachtas Committee that— (a)proposes the wording for a referendum on the public ownership of water infrastructure, (b)sets out a timeline for the...
- Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I know this was outlined to us in advance on the previous Stage and I appreciate fully that accountability to the Committee of Public Accounts is an innovation but the Water Advisory Body does more than an appearance or two appearances per year at the Committee of Public Accounts. It is also made up of very different people, including environmental activists and people with expertise in...
- Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: The argument here is not that the Committee of Public Accounts should not have the role prescribed in the legislation. I think we all support that. It is a very good thing. For all the criticisms many of us have of Irish Water, it has also made itself available to our committee regularly and in very detailed form. That is not the question I am asking. The makeup of the Water Advisory...
- Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his opening statement. I thank Deputy Joan Collins who initially requested the debate, primarily to give us an opportunity in the Dáil to discuss the conclusions and outworking of the negotiations between water services workers, Irish Water, the County and City Management Association, CCMA, and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is incredible. The Taoiseach is dismissing the voices of people in housing distress.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: He is dismissing the voices of people in housing distress.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is shocking.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Shame on you.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Only when you dismiss the real life experience of the people-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----suffering under your failed housing policies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: You are an absolute disgrace.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach did not even respond to one of those real-life case studies.