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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to ask a technical question about amendment No. 90 so that I am completely clear about the legislation. Amendments to section 22 relate to, for example, donations into the State from subsidiary organisations to a political party registered in the State, so if a branch of the Green Party, Sinn Féin or whoever in the North, makes a donation, either in cash or in kind, that must be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is my question not clear?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: For example, there are certain categories of donations in the South which, because they are below a certain financial threshold, do not have to be declared, yes?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Whereas what we are saying, and I have no difficulty with this because I fully support the amendment, but it is just so I am clear, is that while there is a certain category of donations that can be made in the South that do not need to be declared, that does not apply to, for example, donations into the State via subsidiaries from outside the State because it applies to all donations. That...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: To add something-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but I wish to add one point of clarification. This is a good opportunity for people to be very clear about the implications. For example, if the Minister of State, Deputy Nash or I were to organise an election fundraising event in the run-up to the next general election and party colleagues or branches from outside of the State, such as the Green Party in south Belfast or Sinn...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think I understand the provision, but given the all-Ireland nature of a lot of our political activity, it is very important all political parties fully understand the implications so they can be fully compliant with the rules afterwards.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Therefore, for example, if Deputy Nash were to organise a fundraiser and a branch of the SDLP were to buy a table at the event, which it may well do because that party has a fraternal relationship and that is very healthy, that donation must be declared in its party leader's statement under this provision.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would not be permitted under the newest laws, though.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and what it can and cannot be spent on. It is very rigid in the legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Regarding the briefings, the Minister of State can take it as read that we would like to have them. Perhaps the Minister of State can just schedule them without us having to request them. I am sure the Senators would feel likewise.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his explanation. On the Bill itself, this legislation is of enormous importance. Repeatedly during our discussions both as part of pre-legislative scrutiny and on Second Stage, it was described as a once-in-a-generation Bill. I echo Deputy McAuliffe's description of the pre-legislative scrutiny. It was probably the most detailed done in this Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the heat loss indicator study; the timeline for its completion; if there are any preliminary results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27445/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated potential cost savings for the retrofit schemes of a heat loss indicator result of between 2.3 and 2.6 that enabled the installation of a heat pump with fewer energy efficiency upgrades. [27446/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost of a retrofit to a building energy rating of B2 which does not involve a heat pump. [27447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the emissions saved in each retrofit scheme from the homes that were retrofitted to BER B2 standard in each of the years from 2019 to date in tabular form. [27448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of charities or not-for-profit run facilities that were beneficiaries in the community energy grant in each of the years 2019-2021 and to date in 2022; the average cost of retrofitting them; and the average depth of retrofit and the average emissions savings in tabular form. [27449/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue yield from an increase in the zoned land tax from three percent to seven percent in a full year. [27983/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (31 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department engaged with the European Commission on whether the Croí Cónaithe Cities scheme was compliant with European Union-state aid rules; and the conditions, if any, that the European Commission imposed on the scheme to ensure compliance. [27292/22]