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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Anything to avoid the question. Your housing crisis, your health crisis, your childcare crisis.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Anything to avoid the question, a Cheann Comhairle. I am being provoked again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Like they see the housing disaster.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. No allegation was made.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will choose my words very carefully and the Deputy will have an opportunity to respond.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is-----

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a political charge-----

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I can finish, I will take the advice of the Ceann Comhairle. I can say without question that every cent that was spent on my last election campaign was fully in accordance with the law, and every cent I have spent in my constituency organisation on ensuring I will get elected in the next general election was spent in a manner fully in accordance with the law. If individual members of...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me be very clear-----

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me be very clear. I have no knowledge of Deputy McAuliffe's constituency financing. I am not making any inference about what he has or has not done or what moneys he has or has not benefited from; what I am saying is that if it is the case that €500,000 that Fianna Fáil raised last year under the April–May lottery licence was raised outside the lotteries Act, and...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----nor the Minister of State has answered any of the fundamental questions we are asking. That is very regrettable because, if they had, the issues might have been put to bed and we could have moved on. Instead, we are having a row about an issue that should not even have come to the floor of the Dáil today. We should have been dealing with the substance of the Bill and the...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Ceann Comhairle is absolutely right; it is not for Ministers to interpret the law. It is reasonable, however, for the Opposition to ask Government to explain why it is changing certain laws, to clarify the changes it is making, the origins of those changes, who asked for them, when they asked for them, for what purposes and what the consequences would be. That is what Deputy Carthy was...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I must say that these amendments are deeply disappointing. This is legislation of great importance, as we made clear on Second and Committee Stages. There was a very collegial nature in the committee's dealing with this Bill, with strong cross-party consensus to ensure the legislation on the modernisation of our electoral system and our electoral register, and the creation of an electoral...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 19. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to recent increases in holiday travel insurance charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income limits under the Affordable Housing Fund scheme for homes with a market value of €200,000, €250,000, €280,000, €300,000, €320,000, €350,000, €380,000, €400,000, €420,000 and €440,000, in tabular form. [31138/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new build social housing units delivered in 2021 and if he can provide a reason for the different figures presented in the Q4 social housing pipeline report and subsequent parliamentary questions answered by his Department. [31139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the changes to the incremental tenant purchase scheme announced earlier this year have taken effect; if applicants can now apply under the new rules; if the revisions to the scheme are not yet in place, when they will be in place and the instrument that is required for the new rules to apply such as circular, ministerial...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on Project Tosaigh; the procedures in place to ensure that any project availing of the scheme will be additional to supplies already in train and that adequate safeguards will be in place to prevent the Land Development Agency from using the projects funding to bid for and purchase apartment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of funding provided by his Department to each local authority to date in 2022 under the Traveller Accommodation Programme and to provide a further breakdown by local authority of the funding that is to be used for new Traveller accommodation, refurbishment of existing accommodation, caravan...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (15 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 159. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of adults and children that have received their leave to remain but continue to reside in direct provision and the number of the persons in this situation for 1 year or less, between 1 and 2 and more than 2 years. [31143/22]