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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make a quick point and leave time for Deputies Gould and O’Callaghan. The short-term gains have to be on both the public and private sides. Regarding soft costs, developers’ margins and VAT are roughly the same quantum in terms of the impact on the overall cost of a private sector unit. The private sector would probably be smarter if it advocated for burden sharing...

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is fitting, on National Biodiversity Week, an initiative run by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, that we are having these important statements on the new strategic action plan. Like other speakers, I want to start by not just commending the Minister of State for the action plan itself, but by making a very clear statement that if it was not for the Minister of State's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the public service benchmarking exercise used in bundles 1 and 2 of the social housing public private partnerships. [25492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (19 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of IS 465 is expected to be complete; and if the enhanced defective block remediation scheme can be open to applications prior to the completion of the NSAI review of IS 465. [25493/22]

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We absorbed the Deputy's time.

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and his colleagues in the Social Democrats for tabling this important motion, which Sinn Féin enthusiastically supports. In my six short years in the Dáil, Croí Cónaithe cities is the craziest housing scheme any Minister with responsibility for housing has brought before us. It is nothing short of a pro-developer subsidy. There is no...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: First Stage (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: First Stage (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend section 38 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) to require estate agents and online platforms to only advertise properties that are compliant with the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019. As Deputies know, the crisis in the private rental sector...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is because they do not have inferior design standards for apartment building there.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach is provoking me.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, prior to their retrofitting under the warmer homes scheme in 2021; the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, after their retrofitting under the warmer homes scheme in 2021, in tabular form [24845/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost of achieving a B2 BER cost optimum standard in the warmer homes scheme in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [24846/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes at each pre-works BER rating that achieved a B2 cost optimum standard in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [24847/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of dwellings owned by landlords that have received works under each of the retrofit schemes in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [24848/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 244. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in respect of credit unions his attention has been drawn to the fact that a branch (details supplied) intends to put in place a monthly charge for everyday banking services; and if this charge is found across all credit unions offering current accounts. [24102/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he requested that front line homeless services staff funded through his Department would be included in the Department of Health’s special Covid-19 payment; and if not, if he will raise the matter with the Minister for Health. [24158/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that no housing options for an aging population policy statement implementation reports have been published in 2020 and 2021; and when the next implementation report will be published. [24578/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all persons and organisations consulted by his Department in determining the viability challenge and other details of the Croí Cónaithe cities scheme; if he will commit to publish the data underpinning the viability challenge and the data underpinning the subsidy level of up to €120,000 in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of extant planning permissions for apartments in all of the cities eligible for the Croí Cónaithe Cities programme with a breakdown by those permissions using the build to rent design standards and those using the build to buy standards by number of apartment schemes; and the number of units in each...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of all affordable housing developments funded by his Department via AHF, CREL, the LDA or delivered via Part V by local authority area in tabular form; and the number of affordable homes in each scheme. [24580/22]