Results 7,601-7,620 of 14,944 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I never lose my temper. The Minister knows that.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister should be honest with people. He said he was going to be honest, so he should be honest.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is just very difficult under the Minister's Government.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ownership declines every time Fianna Fáil is in government.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is just impossible.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Four apartments? Well done, Minister. Bravo.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are delightful.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the thousands who have no home?

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the thousands who cannot afford rent? What about the families the Minister is leaving behind?

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government is not spending €4 billion this year.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ceann Comhairle, it is-----

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is highly misleading. The Government is spending €1.5 billion not €4 billion.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister cannot be honest with the people.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Then give us a proper debate and not the misleading statements you have given us this evening.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the rental crisis continues to spiral out of control; — the latest Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) rent index shows new rents increased by nine per cent State-wide; — 14 counties experienced double-digit rent inflation; — rents increased by 18 per cent in Westmeath, 19 per cent in Longford, 25 per...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The facts on the ground paint a very different picture from the one the Taoiseach has painted. Let us take his city of Cork. Since he became Taoiseach, rents have increased by 15% to €1,400 per month. Average house prices in Cork have increased 20% under his tenure to €320,000. Homelessness is up an astonishing 26%, which is the highest it has ever been and higher than the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Boris Johnson has again been sabre-rattling, with threats to suspend unilaterally parts of the Irish protocol through legislation. We know that these statements have everything to do with the British Prime Minister's political woes, but the reality remains that the Conservative party is fundamentally reckless and cares little about the North of our country or its people. The Nationality and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Will the Taoiseach outline the progress he and the Minister for Foreign Affairs have made in recent years in advancing supports, protections and rights for undocumented Irish living in the United States? Government engagements with the diaspora when in the US are, of course, enormously important. However, they will be viewed by many as shallow if not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new criteria for local authority acquisitions; if a circular has been issued in relation to same; and if so, if he will publish the circular. [22032/22]