Results 7,041-7,060 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: We could have had 300.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Have the next seven questions been grouped?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the recent increase in homeless presentations and the numbers in emergency accommodation. [47284/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: The latest homelessness figures for the Department show the highest-ever levels of adults, children and pensioners in Department of Housing-funded emergency accommodation. That is only a portion of the total number of people who are in State- or non-State-funded emergency accommodation. All of the homeless service providers in local authorities and in the voluntary sector that the Minister...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is highly likely that the homeless numbers will reach 11,000 before winter is out. I urge the Minister to reconsider his opposition to a temporary ban on evictions. Such a ban was recently introduced in Scotland. I ask him to go further in the context of tenants in situ. Some local authorities are not taking his advice. In fact, some local authorities are insisting that people must be...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is a terrible scheme. Those people who are welcoming it are going to be sorely disappointed because it is so badly designed.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: First, Deputy Naughten is right. It is only going to be about 600-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am. There will be 600 units per year under this scheme, if it works.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am, and I would have got to the question if I had not been interrupted.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that. I might give the Deputy a more accurate answer than the Minister would.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: The scheme is badly designed. The targets are too low and it only applies to a small number of towns. Like the repair and lease and buy and renew schemes, it will come back not having delivered its targets. My question is this: why only 600 units a year? What guarantee is there that people will be able to buy and renovate vacant and derelict properties on €20,000 or €30,000...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, and we would divert the money to local authorities to renovate and sell in larger numbers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: We have a better proposal.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: No, just to buy them.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: It would be done on scale. There would be 4,000 a year, not 600.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is the ambition that is required.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: There are tens of thousands of vacancies and the Minister is offering 600 units.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a big interest in this - in getting it right.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: You cannot spend the capital funding you allocated last year or the year before.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Two years of a €250 million capital underspend.