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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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the progress in relation to planning; and if she will provide a timeline for the delivery of the project. [21819/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Ukrainian households that have entered the State since the start of the war; and the breakdown by household size, for example, no children, one child, two, three and four or more children. [22054/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 450. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that clerical staff working on the frontline through the successful vaccination programme have been excluded from receiving the pandemic bonus payment; the reason that clerical staff in other Departments are eligible to receive the payment; and if he intends to extend the payment to this excluded group. [21830/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Sales (4 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans to improve regulation of the trade of exotic animals; and if a positive list system has been considered as Belgium has implemented since 2001. [22121/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. In yesterday's edition of The Guardian, there was a wonderful article about an apartment scheme in Barcelona called La Borda that has just won the Mies van der Rohe award for emerging architecture. I mention it because it will put the questions I have for the witnesses in context. It is a passive build powered with solar and fully timber, so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask a follow-up question to the reply that the witnesses gave me. Some companies are providing good-quality products. Those products might not be CLT, but they are comparable to CLT in terms of what they do. These companies need capital investment, which Enterprise Ireland can provide. They also need to be able to secure orders so that they can build factories and scale up....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I might come in in the third round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will finally get the answer to one of my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely. We will come back to it in the third round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Or a threat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their answers to all the questions. It is helpful for us in the committee to get our heads around this. It is important we are clear that we are talking about different types of technologies. It took me a fair amount of time to understand the difference between a timber frame versus a modular versus a cross-laminated timber, CLT, and some of the variants. Once we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a general comment and then a final question on concrete. I am saying this more for the benefit of the record and the work we will do after this, but we have a particular problem in our urban centres. Building apartments, of which we need lots, is slow, expensive, dirty for the people who are working on-site, inefficient because of disruptions caused by rain and the natural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: In that context, why is it not the case that all public bodies involved in construction are using lower carbon cement but also that public policy determines that we get to a point where, say, 80% of all cement used in the State is low carbon? That is a figure off the top of my head. If it we are in the good location and it is already doable, as the OPW has shown it is, should we not make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If, as Mr. O’Connor has said he would favour, we set a higher standard for the product that is sold into and used in the Irish market, there is nothing stopping a company located in Ireland from meeting that standard. If it then also opts to export to meet the standards in another jurisdiction, that is its business. Is that not right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We can only set laws for ourselves. Does the Irish Green Building Council have thoughts on these issues?