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Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is putting people to the back of the queue.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: It is a time-based list.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: There is a queue.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I support the points that have been made so eloquently by colleagues on section 37. I have been dealing with people in RAS tenancies for eight or nine years. They would have been on the housing list for 12 or 14 years. The Minister of State knows well that the RAS has completely collapsed in Dublin and does not really exist anymore. Nobody is opting for it and no landlord is interested in...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: This is an important amendment and I warmly support Deputy Catherine Murphy in respect of it. It relates to the fact that the core problem in providing the social housing desperately needed by 100,000 families is finance. It is all about finance. If one looks at the medium-term review, which the outgoing Secretary General at the Department of Finance keeps telling us to read, one can see...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State can break out of that.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: She should go back to her roots.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: We know the reason for that.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly support the amendment in the name of Deputy Ellis. It is extremely frustrating for communities, particularly people on housing lists, and public representatives to see homes being boarded up month after month. Questions arose in the Dublin City Council administrative area about the efficiency of the maintenance departments in councils and the effectiveness of their estate...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister of State for the clarification. I cannot see why she cannot accept the amendments. Surely the child could be in danger and his or her behaviour could represent the outward manifestation of a very dysfunctional family that requires attention. We have all been impressed thus far by the prompt action of the Child and Family Agency on a number of matters. I cannot...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Yes. I move amendment No. 9:In page 17, line 34, to delete "10 working days" and substitute "21 working days".

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Yes. I move amendment No. 10:In page 24, line 1, to delete "10 working days" and substitute "21 working days".

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 11:In page 28, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: "(c) at the time of making its application for an excluding order, or as soon as possible thereafter, a housing authority shall notify the Child and Family Agency of the nature of the application concerned.",".Amendment No. 11 provides that the local authority shall notify the Child and Family Agency of an...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I note the points the Minister makes about the minimum period. All of us would have concerns about this issue. One cannot represent people in respect of housing matters without quickly coming across the scourge of anti-social behaviour. The Minister mentioned the Supreme Court view on section 62, which as it turned out was a very important decision at the time. I still believe that, in...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 7:In page 14, line 21, to delete "10 working days" and substitute "21 working days".Amendment No. 6 in the name of Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan had the same idea as this one which addresses the time limits in section 2. Many believe a ten day period is too short. In amendment No. 8 Deputy Dessie Ellis proposes a period of one month. My amendment aims to offer tenants,...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I refer to the international tax agreement Bill which was recently on the second clár of upcoming legislation. Will it address serious allegations about the construction programme in the education, health and transport sectors and public procurement whereby significant numbers of the workforce working on the projects are black economy workers from another jurisdiction? They come from...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: There is a committee dealing with the black economy; it is chaired by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Taoiseach recall the employment figures? Deputy Catherine Murphy, for example, raised them with him on the Order of Business. We were anxious about a downturn in the rate of increase and there was concern about what was causing the downturn. Could it have been caused by something in the construction industry? Will the Taoiseach investigate the issue?

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: What is the legislative basis for the current guidelines? By which legislation are they governed? I was reflecting a view that there should be a transparent national code to which local authorities would adhere. The Minister mentioned aspects of the management of rents by local authorities. The area of assessments, for example, is an area about which many public representatives would have...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 11, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"9. The Minister may by regulations prepare a code of conduct on the management of rent arrears by housing authorities.".This amendment relates to the issues raised by Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan in amendment No. 3. When the general scheme of the Bill was being drafted, it was put to me by the Northside Community...